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Mat 15:21 Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.
Mat 15:22 And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.
Mat 15:23 But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.
Mat 15:24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Mat 15:25 Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.
Mat 15:26 But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.
Mat 15:27 And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
Mat 15:28 Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.
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*THEN IF GOD KEEPS HIS WORD,
ONE WORD, YOU CAN BE PERSEVERANT THEN. YOU CAN HOLD ONTO YOUR PROMISE AND KEEP
IT.
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253 Listen friends, I want to ask
you this question before I say this. What do we go to church for? What's it all
about? If there is no resurrection of the dead, if--if there is no
resurrection, then let's eat, drink, and be merry, for we're nothing but logs, dogs,
and so forth anyhow. We don't believe that. We know that there's a living God.
Certainly. Well, if He's a living God, I want to ask you something. Then these
Words that I said... You might agree with me; you might not agree with me. But
if you do agree with me, then yet, you--you could question that until you see
it manifested. That's right. If it's God's Word,
God has to keep His Word. If He doesn't keep It, well, then it isn't
God, then I--I've been a false, I been a... I made a false manifestation;
I--I've been a false prophet. But if God said so,
God keeps His Word. Then if God keeps His Word, one Word, you can be
perseverant then. You can hold onto your promise and keep it. Is that
right?
*THAT'S WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH CHRISTIANS TODAY. WE SO SOFT-SOAPED
THEM...
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28 That's what's the matter with
Christians today. We so soft-soaped them, and we shook their hands and brought
them in by secret, and joined them into the church. What
they need is an old-fashion prayer altar where they pray through, until using
themselves, come in God's provided way, till they free themselves from the
world. The trouble of it, today, they put their name on the book and
join church, and that's all there is to it. But
God's way, provided way, is to stay there and work your way through, until God
gives you the new Birth. That's exactly right. Pick him out, it'll kill
him.
*FOR TRULY, WE PROFESS THAT
WE ARE PILGRIMS AND STRANGERS. THIS IS NOT OUR HOME.
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E-5 I see some of my friends from up around Jeffersonville,
or visit us. We got people sitting out here before us tonight, I notice, that
drive all the way from Macon, Georgia, every Sunday to have... That's about
714... That's about 1500 miles a round trip to come
to church on Sunday. And they don't do that just one time. Every day in the
year that we have service up at the Tabernacle, they drive from way down in
Macon, Georgia.
I see Brother and
Sister Dauch here from Ohio. Brother Dauch is well-stricken in age, but just he
and his wife together, and the Lord has been good to them. And they--they drive every Sunday, this aged couple, from
way up in Ohio, down from the--over icy roads. And she, a woman, drove
all the way from Ohio here to get to be in the meetings. (1890MI.)
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E-6 And here the people are from Macon, and different places,
that's gathered in here for the service. We're glad to have friends like that.
So happy to share our privileges together, our fellowship together. For truly, we profess that we are pilgrims and
strangers. This is not our home.
* THE SPIRIT OF GOD WILL RUN YOU RIGHT STRAIGHT TO THE CHURCH
EVERY TIME THE DOOR OPENS FOR FELLOWSHIP.
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E-36 Now, there's so many people say if you quiver, hold your
eyes shut, and do all kinds of things and get sensations. You get spirits,
friends, but if your life don't tally up to what you're professing, then
there's something wrong with the spirit you got. See? It's--it's true. See?
You--you must be sure. The Holy Spirit will bring forth a holy life. That is
right. And if the desire's in your heart... If you have to force yourself
constantly to try to press, and do what's right, and the world's still
hungering in you, then there's something wrong. See, the Holy Spirit in you
will not hunger for the world; It'll hunger for God. If it's hard for you to go
to church, and press yourself to come when the church is open, there's
something wrong with that spirit. It's trying to keep you away from God. The
Spirit of God will run you right straight to the church every time the door
opens for fellowship. Yes, sir. See? So you've got to be sure of this now. The
time is at hand.
*YOU'VE GOT TO SURRENDER
YOURSELF, GOT TO GIVE YOURSELF COMPLETELY TO GOD.
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33 You've got to have faith in what you're doing. "And if your heart condemns
us not..." If we know the Bible teaches us
something and we fail to do that, then there's something we can't have faith
in. See, you--you can't get yourself together, because you know there's
certain things there that God teaches, that you will not cope with. And when
you do that, then where you at? You see, you--you can't have faith on what
you're coming to. You can't come up here and say, "I--I--I, last night I
was out drunk, and, Lord, I want You to heal me this morning. I--I--I'll--I'll
won't drink too much more." You've got to
surrender yourself, got to give yourself completely to God. You've got to obey
every bit of the Word, sell out completely and then take the Word. That Word is in the church. It's a living Word.
*YOUNG MEN'S HEARTS BURNING WITH ZEAL TO TAKE THE GOSPEL IS
WHAT WE NEED.
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E-16 You notice most of the women today has wash machines, and
electric ironers, and push button dishwashers, and everything like that; and
yet they got less time to pray than they ever had. You know, Susanna Wesley had seventeen children.
And she--with them seventeen children, packing the water from a spring, and
washing on her hands, and yet she could find
two or three hours a day to pray with her children, with seventeen little
fellows. And out of there come a John and a Charles.
That's what's the
matter today, reason our schools are letting down, no ministers coming in,
young men interested. We have... need some more
praying fathers and mothers is what we need to make our schools fill up. Young
men's hearts burning with zeal to take the Gospel is what we need. But
things are changing.
*THAT'S IT, PERSISTENCE,
PERSEVERANCE, STAY RIGHT WITH THE WORD OF GOD.
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142 Oh, brother, fight till every
symptom's gone. Hallelujah. Fight till every--every doubt is gone.
Say, "Well, my
case is different." Take that jawbone and knock it out of there.
This one said,
"But, you know, I'm just a little different; I'm getting too old."
Knock it out. Abraham was a hundred. Go on.
"Well, but my
case is very bad." Jonah was in the belly of the whale, hands tied behind
him, laying down in the whale's vomit. Everywhere he looked was whale's belly.
He had plenty of symptoms, but he turned over and said, "Once more will I
look to Your holy temple, Lord." Can't hide Him. That's
it, persistence, perseverance, stay right with the Word of God.
*THEN BE PERSEVERANCE WHEN
YOU--PERSEVERANT WHEN YOU GET THE WORD. HOLD ONTO IT, THE PROMISE; IT'S YOURS.
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107 A man or a woman that takes
God's Word, you got ahold of something. Your anchor holds within the veil. The
storms and gales may press and shake in every way, but you're anchored. She's
coming right on up to the place. You're persevering. You're going to believe
it.
Noah believed it,
sure, and he achieved God's purpose for his life. Do you want to achieve God's
purpose in your life? Then be perseverance when
you--perseverant when you get the Word. Hold onto It, the promise; it's yours.
*ASK HIM. STAY RIGHT WITH IT.
YES, SIR, HOLD ON TO IT IF YOU KNOW IT'S REAL.
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E-38 He knows your needs. He knows how to bring it to you. But
the trouble of it is, because it don't come the way you think it ought to come,
then you're all discouraged, and you hand it back to Him. Let's ask Him, and
believe that He will send it just the way He wants to send it, and accept it
upon the basis. That's right. See?
If you ask Him, don't
make Him a liar. He can't lie. He promised, "Ask
the Father anything in My Name, I'll do it." Now, God can't lie. Ask Him and it shall be done.
"Seek, ye shall find; knock, it'll be
opened." We believe that.
Certainly we do.
E-39 They got a manger. So what did they do? Had this little
Babe in a manger, was that the mighty King? They refused Him. Yes, sir. Why? He
didn't come the way they expected Him to come. And friends, you might think
that was a horrible thing. It was. But you know, we're guilty of the same thing.
We are guilty of the same thing. We ask God for things, and then we walk around
and... And if He don't just pour something on us and give us something that we
think we ought to have, then we just hand it back. See? Don't do that. Ask Him. Stay right with it. Yes, sir, hold on to it if
you know it's real.
* AND NOW CHRIST SENT THE
HOLY SPIRIT, AND HE IS GOD IN SPIRIT. SO THEN, HOLD ON TO IT.
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E-40
And what's more
real than the Word of God? And the Word of God is made flesh, and dwelt among
us: Christ. And now Christ sent
the Holy Spirit, and He is God in Spirit. So then, hold on to it. If the Holy
Spirit's here and give us that promise, stay with it. What's the matter with us Pentecostal
people who profess to have the Holy Ghost and afraid to trust God anywhere
nearly? What's the matter? We're expecting it in a--some other way.
*BUT IF IT'S GOD'S WORD, IT'S
GOT TO COME TO PASS. BE PERSEVERANT, SEE GOD MAKE IT COME TO PASS.
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110 Oh, he run like a coward with all of his education. All
of his theology, he failed. All of his great things, he failed. But one day in
a burning bush God met him. When God come to him in this burning bush, watch
him, with a stick in his hand, his wife on a mule, with little Gershom setting
on her hip, on his road to Egypt. What was he? Going down to take over. He
was--had perseverance; he was very persistent.
"Moses, do you
think you at eighty years old, and with a crooked stick in your hand, dry as it
can be..." A crooked stick, a one man invasion, going down to Egypt like
one man going over to Russia to take over... We only need... God only needs one
man. That's only... He only needs one man
completely in His hand. One man, that's all He needs. He can shake
Russia to pieces with that one man.
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112 He took Noah, or Moses, pardon me... He took Moses while
he was running this a-way, settled down to a nice life, lovely young girl,
married her, had a baby, falling heir to his father-in-law's sheep, Jethro, the
priest of Midian. He had everything made, had a nice home, place, comfortable
living out there, and hunt every once in a while with his crossbow, maybe, and
kill a deer, and plenty of berries, and plenty of sheep, and wool and trade,
the caravans come through. Why, he had it made, nothing he had to worry about.
But one day, one day the burden of the people of... His people that was
burdened was done left his mind. They were down in Egypt. He had failed, so God
can do something else about it. But one day when God met him in a burning bush,
you talk about perseverance, here he goes.
"Where's your
army?"
"I don't need
any. My army is an unseen army." Like it was at Dothan one morning with
the prophet... "My army is an unseen army." Here he goes; the only
thing you can see is an old crooked stick, leading this mule behind, and the
whiskers a-blowing. "Praise God." His eyes set towards heaven, going
down to take over.
Sometimes
faith makes you act ridiculous to the carnal mind. But if it's God's Word, it's
got to come to pass. Be perseverant, see God make it come to pass.
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