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Now, and we find that. And we see that one time that that inoculation
wasn't too good. There was a conscience always of sin, and he had to come year
by year and make his offering. But now in Hebrews It tells us that if the
worshipper is once purged he has no more conscience of sin, or otherwise, no
more desire to sin. The whole thing's gone from him.
There's no more... You don't have
to sin every day. You don't have to do these things. You do it because you
willfully want to. And the reason you willfully want to is 'cause you have
never died to yourself. Oh, brother. I know that's scorching, but it's good.
When you die to yourself then you become a new creature. Then those things are
gone.
And if you try to act like you've
got them before you have, it's like a--I said the other day like a blackbird
trying to put peacock feathers in his wings, say, "You see, I'm a--I'm a
peacock." He isn't. That's something he's stuck in hisself. It has to grow
from the inside out.
And that's the way the Holy Spirit
is. It's not something you smear on or something like that. It's a new birth.
You've got to be borned again. And these virtues of the Holy Ghost has to come
from the inside out. And when world and sin, and cutting hair, and painting
comes out against the Word of God, it shows the Holy Spirit's not there. That's
a direct evidence.
So what would you call it?
Pentecostal prostitution (That's exactly right.), committing spiritual
fornication with the God of heaven. What a shame, a disgrace it is. Oh, that's
horrible. Yes, sir.
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Now, we find out that when man tries to find a serum (a doctor) to give
to his patient to inoculate him from sickness, he first tries it on a guinea
pig, and see if it'll work. But God didn't do that. He never took a guinea pig;
He used it on Himself. A good doctor that wants to try a serum, if he don't
know whether it'll kill or cure, he ought to take it himself first to find out
'fore he puts it in somebody else.
And God, in order to take this
serum, had to be made flesh and dwell among us: a kinsman Redeemer. Amen. God
had to become man, so He could take the serum. And He had His inoculation at
Jordan (Amen.), when He walked out in the river by John and was baptized. And
then the inoculation come down. The toxin fell from heaven like a dove, saying,
"This is My beloved Son, in Whom I'm pleased to dwell in." He was
inoculated.
And immediately after the
inoculation come the test come. And every man, as soon as you receive the Holy
Ghost and become inoculated, every demon out of hell will turn against you.
Even your own family, sometimes will turn you down: your husband, your wife,
your pastor. You're kicked out of church; you're laughed at, made fun of. It's
the test. Amen.
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God become flesh, one of us, that He might take the inoculation, become
subject to sin. For He was borned of a woman. He was tempted in all manners likewise
as we are, and He couldn't do it as long as He was in the Spirit. He had to
become flesh in order to be tempted, to take the inoculation, to take the
toxin. He wanted to prove that His toxin was right. Amen. So He took it on the
day that John baptized Him when the toxin came down out of heaven and filled
Him.
Then the test come. It held in
every mocking trial. It held when Satan offered Him the kingdoms of the world,
to give Him the world, and every kingdom. The inoculation held. It stayed put.
The world looked upon Him; the church looked upon Him; the critics looked upon
Him; the devil put every trial on Him he could, and it still held. Amen.
When He stood before that bunch of
educated priests, He said, "Which one of you can condemn Me of sin?"
Amen. That inoculation held there. "If I do not the works of My Father,
then believe Me not. But if I do the works of My Father, then believe the
works."
They said, "You're a man
making yourself God."
He said, "If I don't do the
works of My Father, then don't believe it." Said, "They are they that
testify of Me. They speak of Me. My works speaks louder than My mouth
can."
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That's exactly right. You are what you are by the way you live. You're
not what you are by the way you talk, or the way you dress, or the way that you
are, but the way you live. That's what makes you what you are. The outside
expresses what's on the inside. This hollow, shallow, card-playing, cigarette
smoking generation that calls themselves Christians, bobbed-haired women,
dancers, television fiends, nasty jokes, calling yourselves Christians, you
need inoculation. Back to Pentecost again. That's right. We're in a great need.
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It held on Jesus when He was tested of everything a man could be tested
by. Every temptation that ever fell upon a man fell upon Him, but that
inoculation held. If you want to know whether it'll hold or not, whether this
thing's right or not, look at Him. He was your Example. It held with Him. It
held on every trial. It held when He stood there and could discern the thoughts
of the people, and they called Him Beelzebub: didn't stop Him, He went right on
just the same.
When He knowed the thoughts in their
hearts, when He looked out and told the woman at the well she had five
husbands, told Peter what his name was, and so forth, they said, "This
man's a fortuneteller."
Now, He didn't say, "Well,
maybe I'm wrong. Maybe..." It held. Why? He knowed where He come from.
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I asked my class the other night, when we was preaching on the 3rd
chapter of Saint John, I said, "I'm going to leave you hang on this till the
next meeting. When Jesus stood there and said, 'No man has ascended up but
He--up into heaven but He that come down from heaven, even the Son of man which
is in heaven...'"
That takes inoculation. "No
man has ascended into heaven but He that come down from heaven, even the Son of
man which is now in heaven," and here He was standing, talking to
Nicodemus. The church, they slobber, ignore it for about a few hours. Directly
they quit.
I said, "It proved He was God.
He's omnipresent." That's exactly right. Sure. He was inoculated.
"It's not Me that doeth these works. It's My inoculation. My Father that
dwelleth in Me, He's the One's doing the works. And the works that I do (Saint
John 12:4), he that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do
also." Amen.
What's the matter with the churches?
What's the matter today they can condemn it, say it's of the devil? They
haven't been inoculated yet. They don't know what the serum is. That's the
reason. It's unbelief, and unbelief is sin. He that believeth not's condemned
already. Unbelief is what does it.
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It held. They went and put a rag around His face. Now, a man that had
power to do these things... That's what's the trouble with our Pentecostal movement.
Listen at me. I'm going to say something, not to hurt, but to cure. When a man
comes to you that's got a gimmick that can answer every one of your questions,
forget about it. Everybody can tell you every interpretation of dreams, can
heal every sickness, can do all these things, and my, he's a man with something
can do all things, that's contrary to the Word. He's got the answer to
everything. It's contrary to the Word. You watch that.
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That's what's the day today. It's men who gets all enthused, and go off
on fleshly emotions, and put interpretations to things when it's not
interpretation. I've been so sick of it, crossing the nation and hearing these
things. I--I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings, but tonight's the night I'm
telling the way back, how to get back to the cure. That's exactly right. If a
prophet prophesies, and that what he says comes not to pass, then don't believe
him. That's right. "But if it does come to pass, believe him, 'cause it's
Me that spoke," said the Lord.
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Here was Jesus standing there. What a wonderful Example He was. What an
example Paul was. There he had power to smite a man blind, heal the sick, call
the cripples back to healing, all these things. And then, could you imagine the
last part of his ministry, when he stood there and let the coppersmith stop his
meeting and run him out of the country? I guess some of the critics says he
lost his power to smite blind. No. No, he didn't have a gimmick; he had the
Holy Ghost. He only minded God.
I guess then... He left his friend
sick up there, Trophimus, up at a place sick, I guess he lost his power to
heal. Also, he packed a doctor along with him, a Divine healer, packing a
doctor with him, Luke. God was fixing to crown his ministry, 'cause Paul always
wanted to suffer for what he done to Stephen. It was his desire.
Don't you know how the Holy Ghost
spoke to him, and told him not to go up there to Jerusalem? He knowed he was
going up to die for Jesus. That was his heart's desire, to die for Him.
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Look at Jesus, that could heal the sick, and raise the dead, and do all
these things, and foretell, and tell the people, and knowed the thoughts of
their heart, setting in Pilate's courtyard there, with a rag wrapped around His
eyes like this, and a Roman soldier, a bunch of them drunk, and their spit on
His face, and the beard pulled out of His face, hitting Him on the head with a
reed and then passing the reed one to the other, and said, "Say..."
take the rag off, and said, "now tell us. You're a prophet. Tell us who
hit you; we'll believe You." He never opened His mouth. Sure. He didn't
have a gimmick; it was God.
"Pull your hands off the cross
and come down, and we'll believe. Sincerely, we're the priests; we're God's
servants. If you'll just prove it and come down off the cross, why,
we'll--we'll know that you are the Son of God. You're our king. Come down off
the cross, and we'll believe You." He never opened His mouth and said a
Word.
Why? That bunch of hypocrites down
there singing the very song that that same Spirit that was in David cried out
back there. "My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me? They pierced My hands and
My feet (the 22nd Psalm), they gambled for My vesture, and cast lots," and
so forth, singing that same song down in there that David, through the Holy
Spirit, cried out about eight hundred years before that, saying the same thing.
And here He...?... groaned it, and didn't know it.