The Way to Have Fellowship
55-1009 · Chicago, Illinois
18 I’d rather have a church…Listen, just a moment. I would rather have a church that knows nothing about any spiritual gift, and just be so in love with each other and with Christ, I’d rather have that than every spiritual gift operating in the church. Now, that might sound hard in a Pentecostal group, but I would rather have it. Where there is gifts, they’ll fail. Where there is gifts, they’ll bring confusion. Where there is gifts, they can be questioned. But where there is love, it is perfect. That’s right. And if you had perfect love you’d have perfect gifts. That’s right. So work first with love. That brings fellowship, and fellowship brings gifts.
Now, the reason…Why is it that people perhaps like different things, like fellowship? Is because, first, man was made to fellowship. Now, just think of tonight…As much as I long to go hunting and fishing in the outdoors, yet, my heart is more hungry to get on top of that mountain and talk to God than anything I know of. See, I—I want to be alone; I want to know there’s nobody a hundred miles from me. And I love people, but the only way I can minister to people is to first get the message from God.
Hear Ye Him
56-0930 · Chicago, Illinois
26 And then the father after he had given the tutors the rights to raise his son, the tutor had to bring word to the father, how the son was progressing. Now, yet he was heir of all things, but yet, he didn’t come into legal possession until there was a ceremony, and he had fully done that which was right, and was a worthy. Now, many people is in earth today. And I say this with all respect. There’s, perhaps, many setting right here who’s absolutely living under your privilege as sons and daughters of God. I won’t say you’ll be lost. No, because when God saves and then loses then He…
27 Well, and I—I’m not trying to preach doctrine. I’m only saying if God…If…Now, if you’re not just mentally worked up…But if God saves you knowing He is going to lose you, He defeats His purpose. He don’t do that. When He saves you, you’re saved. “He that heareth My Words, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath Everlasting Life, and shall never come into judgment; but’s pass from death unto Life.” So you’re still a son and daughter, but you’re living under your privilege. And your conduct each day, as the Holy Spirit brings it before the Father, gives away the things that you do, and you’re still a son and daughter, but you’ll never be brought to the place where you should be. Great gifts that are in the Church are so misused, no reverence to it, and just a—a bunch of carry on until it even brings disgrace to the public. How that the Holy Spirit would like to govern that, bring it down.
When Love is Projected
56-0218 · Minneapolis, Minnesota
10 You knowing I was a game warden, conservationist…My mother’s a half Indian, and I—I love outdoors. And just a little sideline now to life, to let you know what I mean when I’m speaking this. Until the burden gets on the Christian Church for lost souls, we’re fighting the air. Let us stop speaking…I believe in gifts and signs and wonders, why, certainly. That goes with the body, but let’s not put that ahead of love and lost souls. Let’s get into—a burden on our hearts.
11 The Holy Spirit marking the Jews in the…?…to Jerusalem, He only come to those who sighed and cried for the abominations that was done in the midst of the city. And now, perhaps this morning, we take up to this challenge…All the glory, all the power, all that God has given to us here in this meeting, and the great things that we’ve seen, how many laid on their face last night and last cried and sighed for the abominations of Minneapolis? See, there you are. He only marked those kind. See?