Communicating God's Salvation — Robert B. Thompson

Lord, as we come unto you this night, it is with great praise and thanksgiving for your goodness, Lord. We do praise your holy name. Praise your name, Lord. Thank you, Lord, for the things you have done for us, Lord.

Helping us in every way, Lord. We pray for each family represented here, Lord, that there will be salvation and healing and protection. Wisdom and peace, Lord. Every family represented here, Lord. Just let your spirit prevail among us, we pray.

Thank you, Lord. And, Lord, as we continue, we ask that, Lord, you know the needs that are here, Lord. On the tape, Lord, you know the needs. And we pray the Holy Spirit will just add Jesus, give us insight and understanding, we pray.

And thank you, Lord. Amen. Alright, we are on Ezekiel 43, verse 15, talking about the image of Christ from Ezekiel. The altar hearth is four cubits high, and four horns project upward from the hearth.

Now, this altar is the altar of burnt offering, which means it represents Calvary. The four horns, four in the symbolism, and this is a symbolic book, represents communication. And horns represent power.

So, we're talking here about the power of the communication of God's salvation. The power of it. Now, some verses came to me. We talked Sunday night about that fruit, eternal fruit, in the kingdom comes from crucifixion.

And it always comes as some person is willing to give themselves over to the death the Lord requires, in order that that fruit be born. And that is one way, one aspect, of the way God's salvation is communicated.

A very important thing. And in connection with that, we talked about John 12, 32. John 12, 32. And it's very interesting, because you would think, I mean, there's been a lot of teachers and philosophers at that time, and since then, a lot of them were Greeks, Socrates and Plato and Aristotle and others.

But none of them, and they communicated by writing and philosophy. But Jesus communicated by his death. The power of the communication of Christ is not in what he taught, but what he was and what he did.

That's where the power is. And it still is the same truth today. The Christian church, prior to Protestantism, it was spread, well, I can't say that, I don't know how much emphasis there was on missions or spreading the Catholic faith.

Yes, I guess it has been from the beginning, because St. Patrick went up into Ireland, and there were others that went into the British Isles and to various places. But then there was, and Protestant missions got started from a group of people that prayed in a haystack.

It was called a haystack prayer meeting. And out from there went missionaries to India. That was kind of the birth of the modern missionary outreach. And so when we think of communicating Christ's salvation, we tend to think in very limited terms.

Either in terms of missions, or in terms of evangelism. And sometimes in terms of personal evangelism. It's an interesting thing that the word evangelism only appears once. If it appears at all in the New Testament, the word evangelist appears twice.

Once in Ephesians 4, and once to Timothy, do the work of an evangelist. But it is certainly not a term that is used anywhere near in the New Testament like it's used today. Anywhere near. So I think God has, with reference to the image of Christ and the way Christ promotes his, communicates, there's more to the scripture than just evangelism and missions.

Missions is kind of evangelism at a distance. So our idea of communicating the gospel is pretty well limited to preaching. Preaching. But there's much more to it than that. The four horns, the power of communicating God's salvation to the ends of the earth, has got to do a lot more with other things than it does just with preaching.

Going to Bible school, coming out and bringing the word as important as that is. Not negating the importance of that. We're just saying there's more to it than that. And this is the first inkling that we get of it is that when Christ was communicating his salvation, he did it by his death.

He did it by his death. He didn't really, the Lord didn't really go around trying to convince people about his salvation. You don't see that. He taught, he taught a whole bunch, he taught about the kingdom.

But it wasn't like, get saved. There wasn't much emphasis on that. It's all these are the laws of the kingdom. So there's a lot more to the communication. In fact, the Lord said that the gospel of the kingdom is like a seed.

How many remember that? Well you know, that's a lot truer than we know. Because we think, we tend to, we preach, we give an altar call, and then we don't. But many churches do count those numbers. They record the number of people that accepted Christ.

Well, that's good, and I have no doubt that multitudes of people have been brought to Christ that way. But that's not exactly a seed. Because you don't plant and harvest in the same night. You don't do that.

And today we had, boy you people are awful close together. It's ridiculous. What are you doing back there? You need to move up to the front, some of you anyway. I'm afraid the ship will tip over backwards and the fantail will go underwater and the prow will be sticking up in the air like a periscope.

We had an excellent example of that today. You can move up, Sheriff. If you come up, your mother will come up. We had an example, thank you very much. We had an example of that today. We got a letter from a people named Slaughter.

And Eddie, it will appear in the, or did you already see it? Have you seen that letter? Isn't that something? And here was a fellow that just passed away, I guess. And his family was saying. Huh? The copy on the bulletin board.

It tells how that he heard me, and I'm not accenting me. He heard it happen to me myself, preaching in Peoria, Illinois. How long ago was it? In the 70's. And that seed took. I knew nothing about it, you know.

Knew nothing about it. All I remember in that episode was I had a bad case of laryngitis. And that's all I remember of Peoria, Illinois. And them coming in, in the middle of the meetings. And everybody saying the corn's in, the corn's in.

In other words, that was the time when they were planting corn. The corn was all in. That was big back in Peoria. But anyway, this seed got planted in this guy. And his son, was it, that wrote? Was that his son?

Said it transformed his life. And so they were right, he's just passed away. And it transformed his life. Over the period of that time, over 30 years. That seed that was planted transformed his life. Now that's the way it's supposed to be.

It's not just, it's not that you don't sell it. Like I preach something and then so many people believe it and accept it. That's part of it. But boy, there's a lot more to it than that. You know, there's this seed thing.

Didn't your dad used to listen to the tapes, I thought? Before he passed away. Yeah, he used to listen to the tapes. We don't know where those tapes go. And the people that they influence. But we'll never count them here, you know.

Put them on our monthly report. Hey, he just puts it on the monthly report. Same thing every Sunday, because we don't count the people. We don't know who comes. So it's been the same, I guess, for the last, what, 15 years?

That church will never grow. Because it's not really a valid measure of what's going on. It's not really a valid measure. The number of people in the building is not really a valid measure of what God is doing.

Because here's one guy that got lifted up on the cross. And never went outside 60 mile radius or something of where he was born, something like that. But anyway, it changed the history of the world. Not so much, not only, it taught by what he taught, too.

But it was his death that was the horns coming up in the altar. That's where the power was. And I think God wants us to get back to that. Because, at least a consciousness of that. Because while there's a lot of talk about missions today.

And it's all good and a lot of excellent programs and everything. God has something better for that in our day. He's really going to show his power when he gets ready. And we've got to be prepared for that.

We've got to be prepared for that. Because we don't know whether it's going to work next door. Whether he's going to send some of us across the world or how. But we've just got to be ready for God when he decides to open his mouth.

We've got to be ready for it. So, in Revelation 11 .3, we see something that is destined for the last days. Just prior to the coming of the Lord. Of course, I preached a lot on this. And the Lord showed me kind of a semi-vision of it one morning when I was praying.

I don't want to go into that. I just want to bring out a point here. Now, this is, 11 .3 refers to the two witnesses. I will give power to my two witnesses. Actually, the word power does not appear in the Greek.

It's just, I will give to my two witnesses. So, you can, it's more than just power. It's the ability to witness is what it is. The word power doesn't appear. Authority doesn't appear. Nothing. It just says, I will give to my two witnesses.

Well, of course, this is commonly preached. This is either Moses and Elijah, or Elijah and Elisha, or Enoch and Moses, or however you want to take it. But, I don't get that at all. Because, actually, this passage of Revelation 11 is taken from the fourth chapter of Zechariah.

And there, the interpretation of Revelation is given. It's in Zechariah 4 where you see the lampstand and the olive trees. And what was the interpretation? The angel says, what does this mean? Of course, Zechariah didn't know.

And so, the angel gave the interpretation of the lampstand and the olive trees. Does anyone remember what it was? Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit. And, it's talking about, in that chapter, Zechariah 4, it's talking about the headstone coming down the temple.

So, what God is saying, in the days when I'm going to complete the building of my temple, I'm going to do it, but it's not going to be by might or by power. It's going to be done by my spirit. And that's God's word for today.

That's what he would tell his church today. Do the good that you can, but prepare yourself because I'm going to get ready to finish this work. That's why it says in Revelation 10, the preceding chapter, there will be delay no longer.

God is going to suddenly finish his work. Christ is going to be formed in the church. Wickedness is going to come to maturity. It's all going to happen quickly. And, the work is not going to be done by the ambition or wisdom of men.

Audrey, do you have a question there? Sit on my face.

What was the question? Peterson said, I will provide my two witnesses. And, that seems a little different plan. It's like he's providing it as a witness at the end time. He's not talking about provisioning them so much as providing them as a witness.

Very interesting.

And, you can, all of that fits there. That's why the word is left out. I'll give them whatever they need. But, the interesting thing is, in the first two verses of Revelation 11, he's talking about preparing the witness.

And, it's done with the symbolism of measuring. He's going to measure the temple. He's going to measure the altar. In this case, not the altar of burnt offering, but the altar of incense, which refers to the people who are closest to the ark.

The altar of incense was just across the veil from the ark. So, God says, I'm going to take the people who are bowing at the altar of incense and saying, not my will, but thine be done. See, the altar of incense symbolizes death.

Death to self. Because, the incense was compounded from four spices. And, these spices, Galbanum, frankincense, anicon, and stachy. These four spices were bitter, and some of them were produced by piercing bark.

And so, they represent, remember frankincense was given to the Lord. And, an embalming thing was, it represents death. And so, the altar of incense represents that place that Christians come to after Pentecost.

It comes after the lampstand. Where you bow down and say, not my will, but yours be done. And, these are the people that are being measured here in Revelation 1 and 2. That the holy place and those at the most consecrated place of the holy place are going to be measured.

And, that's what's going on today. See, God is measuring every aspect of our personality. Bringing us through circumstances that how close our personality is to the image of Christ. Because, it's the image of Christ that is the temple.

And, it's the temple that's going to be finished in our day. And so, God keeps bringing us into situations that bring out our self-will and the lust of our flesh and our worldliness and everything else you can imagine.

Comes out because we're brought into places of pain and pressure. And, whenever you're brought, whenever you're uncomfortable about something that is not obvious why it should be. Then, there's a lesson there.

And, you're to go to the Lord and find out what it is He is teaching you. See, when there's pain in your life, there's bewilderment, there is a disappointment, there is frustration. You are to go to the Lord and find out what He is teaching you.

Because, God wants you to have perfect peace. Great peace of they who love thy law. And, nothing shall offend them. And, when we lose our peace, there is a real opportunity there to grow in the Lord. Because, almost always, we've lost our peace because we're trying to do something.

We're trying to do something. Ordinarily, it's frustrating us. Something is frustrating us. It may be a person, it may be a situation, it may be our boss on the job, it may be sickness. Even sickness can serve.

Because, oh, if I wasn't sick, I could get up and do this and that. Ordinarily, unless it's a very painful disease and can't be remediated in any way, ordinarily, if we just kick back, it's a good time to rest.

Some of the best rests I've ever had have been in the hospital. It's the truth. I'm not that tired now, but there's been several times in my life when the best thing I could think of was to get in the hospital for a week or two.

And just take it easy. But if you fight it, you don't go, oh, I've got to get out of here, and the money and everything else, then you've lost your peace. But you don't need to. If you go to the Lord, the Lord may say, I'll take care of it.

Why don't you rest? See, there's a lesson in it. And the lesson usually is to keep turning over your life to the Lord, turning over your life to the Lord, turning over your life to the Lord. Maybe you had a big crash, had money invested in stocks, and you lost $100 ,000 last week.

Well, obviously you're upset. But the Lord doesn't want you upset about that. He wants you to go to Him and find peace. As someone said, man's disappointments are God's appointments. And they are. And when we lose our peace, it's because we're trying to do something, and we're being frustrated.

And God wants us to go to Him and pray through until we are at peace. Great peace have they which love thy law, and nothing shall offend them. So if you're upset tonight about something, if you'll search your heart, you'll see it's something that you're trying to do.

You're not content to just let the Lord have His way, to wait for His wisdom, wait for His solution. It's something that you're trying to force. And this is not the image of Christ. The image of Christ is one of perfect confidence, perfect trust in God.

And that's why we're being measured, is because God is ready to give the power of communication of His salvation to numerous people in the world, and to bear witness, whether they'll agree to it or not, or receive it or not.

God is getting ready to do that, but He doesn't want it to be done in the present religious model. Because in the present religious model, if He gives power to people, they follow a certain path that they have gained by watching other people.

And it usually amounts to incorporating, many times publishing a glossy magazine, gathering a following, maybe going on television, and you see God doesn't want that. This witness is going to be clothed in sackcloth.

There are going to be glossy magazines, and endless offerings, and everything else. God wants to give back to reality and integrity. I told you, I was talking to a man the other day that's not a Christian, and he says, how about these TV evangelists?

And I said, they're phonies. Most of them are phonies. They're just collecting money. If you look at them, you can tell. I'm sure that's not entirely the case, but in too many instances it is, and it's caused a lot of loss of confidence in the Christian church by the antics of television evangelists.

God doesn't want a whole bunch more of power-filled people walking in their own ideas of what missions should be. It's time for a whole new breath. A whole new breath. And so what He's doing is, He is measuring.

And we see that in verses 1 and 2. Go measure the temple of God in those that worship at that altar. That's the altar of incense. Exclude the outer court. The outer court represents the world. I'm not judging the world at this time.

I'm judging my church at this time. We wish God would go out and judge the Democrats, judge the liberals, judge the lesbians, judge the homosexuals, judge everybody He can think of, but God's interested in judging His church.

If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and turn from their wicked ways, I'll save the nation. Not if the Democrats humble themselves, or the liberals humble themselves, or Clinton humbles themselves.

If my people will humble themselves and turn from their wicked ways. So when we go raving and roaring about what Clinton's doing wrong, or what Gore's doing wrong, and everybody else is doing wrong, and start looking to see what we're doing wrong, we'll be closer to what God is after.

Because God will work His works, whether Gore is elected, or Bush is elected, or Nader is elected, or Buchanan was elected, or somebody we never heard of is elected. God will work His works. And all things will work together for good to those who love God.

It will continue to do so, no matter who's elected. If Mickey Mouse is elected, it will continue to work for good. No one can stop God's program. But God is judging, but He's not judging Buchanan, or Gore, or Clinton, or anybody else.

He's judging the people at the altar of incense. You and me. That's who the Lord was after today. We're the ones that are standing in the need of prayer. We're not there worrying about the president or the vice president.

We're the ones. God's not going to use them to bear witness to the world. He's going to use us to bear witness to the world. And so He is measuring us to see how close we come to the image of Christ. Does that make sense to you?

Now notice what the Lord says. He says, Leave out the art of court. Forget that stuff. I'm not after that now. That will come later. Remember, if the righteous scarcely are saved, where shall the ungodly appear?

They'll appear later. But God is after those who are closest to Him today to get them right, because He's preparing to communicate His redemption. And He's going to do it through people clothed in sackcloth, not glitz.

Very humble, earthly people who are not interested in making a name for themselves in the ministry. Now notice what He says, and it's so striking. He said, I will give the power, or what Audrey says, opportunity.

What did you say? I will give them. Yeah, I'll give them. I'll give them. And they will prophesy. But the thing to notice about that is this. It's not the freewheeling missions. It's God suddenly starting something in His will for a specific period of time.

What is this windows? I always forget that. It's a 2040, isn't it? 2040 windows. It's nothing like that. It's nothing like planning where the gospel hasn't come. All of this. None of that is involved.

God says, I'm going to prepare these people and when I'm ready, I'm going to shake the earth with them. When they're prepared, I'm going to shake the earth with them. And when that witness has been accomplished, I'm going to cut it off.

Well, don't you love it? You see the different concept than human driven missions. As I say, we know they do a lot of good and I would be the last one to prevent some poor little child in the Philippines or Africa from hearing the gospel.

I'm not after that. I'm pointing out what the Bible says. How God goes about communicating. It's interesting, isn't it? Here's the earth. You know, the tears have come to maturity and bang, now comes.

Well, for those of you that don't know my teaching, my teaching is that the two witnesses are Christ and his saints. The saints are one witness. See, these two lampstands are the two witnesses and lampstands always represent Christ.

And the only other way they're used is to represent his church. Because lampstands are solid gold and they represent divinity. They can never be two people from the Old Testament because none of them were ever born again.

No one was born again until Jesus rose from the dead. So when you're talking lampstand, you're talking Messiah. The lampstand in the tabernacle represents Messiah. And when you see two lampstands, you're talking about Messiah and that which is part of Messiah, which is his church.

And the two olive trees represent the fullness of the anointing, the double portion, the Elisha anointing. Elijah came before Christ, but Elisha will come before the prophet. Elijah multiplied by two, Elisha will come to prepare the way of the Lord.

And so the two lampstands are Christ and his body. The Lord says, and lo, I am with you always. And then again he said, and the Lord worked with them. That's the elephant and the mouse. And the witness in the end time will be given by the elephant and the mouse, by Christ and us, and we will run around chirping while he does the work.

All we're doing is keeping him company. He is God. We don't have to support him. Sometimes we get the idea that we've got to work hard to support Christ because he's about to crumble. Christ holds the lampstand, he holds the churches in his hands.

You see that in Revelation, he holds them in his hands. And then in Revelation 3, he holds them in his mouth. Remember he says, I'll spew you out of my mouth. Now we're not holding up Christ. Christ is God and he holds us up.

And when he goes forth with us, you know, the Lord worked with them. It's the elephant and the mouse. But it's important to remember that because he does use that mouse. And we have to do what he says.

We don't have to help him out. We have to do what he says. And wow, what a difference there is in that. See, how easy it is to run ahead of the Lord. You know, like Philip went, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip to that one person, to the eunuch.

Just one person, but that was an influential man in Ethiopia. Whoa! He's big time that guy. The Spirit of the Lord said, you minister to that one man. And then he moved Philip. He took Philip out of a big revival.

Well see now, if that is us, we figure, well I can't go now because there's a big revival and we've got to consolidate this thing. We've got to put it together and get it going. God doesn't want that.

Just obey me. Do what I say. I'm the elephant, you're the mouse. Just obey me. And it'll work. You know, one time, in Amy Semple McPherson's autobiography, she told how the Lord said to her, you lay your hands on people and when you do, it'll be me laying my hands on them.

See, it wasn't that she ran out and fasted and prayed and got the gift of healing and did something else. The Lord just spoke to her and said, when you lay your hands on somebody, it'll be me laying my hands on them.

Boy, did that ever prove out in practice. So, the Lord is looking for people that are not trying to be hotshots or run ahead of the Lord or somehow carry the Lord around. You know, like some of the festivals in South America where they're carrying the Lord around.

We don't have to carry the Lord around like that. Maybe a blessing to those people at that time. But He wants people who will hear Him and just do what He says and no more and no less. So, you hear it today, the thing today, you think, the whole world's going to hell unless we're going to do something.

But here it says, God is going to do something. It's a whole different concept. I'm going to do something. I'm going to enable these people. I'm going to send them up. I'm going to shake the world. And when I'm through, I'm going to cut it off.

Because I've got to give antichrist the space to do his thing to finish the witness of evil. He knows what he's doing. Wow. I had to come to that conclusion years ago, Tony. And I had people pester me about that, as you know.

Why don't you get in? Why don't you go door to door? Why don't you do this and that? And I went to the Lord several times about that. And He said, you take care of the Word. I'll take care of the attendants.

That's what He said. I'm still here at 75 years of age. I think it was the Lord. We'll see. We'll see. All right. Any question about what I am emphasizing? Is there any question about what I'm emphasizing?

Am I coming across at all? I'm talking about the different aspects of communicating God's salvation. It's not limited to evangelism, as we understand. It's not limited to that. That's included,.

But it's not limited to that. Okay. You all seem to be... Yes? You said that the two witnesses of the revelation are taken from Zechariah,.

Who were the two lampstands. No, there's only one lampstand in Zechariah. Only one. That's because there was no body of Christ at that time. There were two olive trees. Yes, the fullness of the anointing was there, but only one lampstand.

See, the thing about those olive trees is that the priest had to replenish the oil in the lampstand every day. He trimmed the wicks in the morning and filled it up with oil at night and it burned all night.

But the olive trees in Zechariah, and consequently the olive trees in Revelation 11, there's no priest involved. The olive trees pour their oil directly into the lampstand. Now, what that's telling us is...

See, it says about Jesus Christ that he had the Spirit of God without measure. And in the last days, we will have the Spirit of God without measure. That's the lampstand. The priest doesn't have to keep filling it.

It comes out of the olive tree directly into the cup on top of the lampstand. It doesn't have to pick the olives and press them out and get the olive oil and then fill it. It comes right out of the tree.

So, I know we can expect this fullness because John 14 .12 says, He that believes in me, the works that I do, shall he do, and greater than these shall he do. And that has never happened in history. There's been people who have done many of the same works of Christ.

They have raised the dead. They have healed the lepers. They have done these things. Caused eyes to be formed in Socrates. That happened in early Pentecost. But no one has ever done greater works than Jesus.

But God cannot speak in vain. And God said, the works that I do, shall he do, and greater. And so, we know from the Bible that the greater works are reserved for the end time. Several times it says, well, for example, it says, He kept the good wine until now.

And the glory of the latter house shall be greater than that of the former. And so on. And that's the way God moves. He always moves from the lesser to the greater. He always moves from the lesser to the greater.

So, we can see the book of Acts will be continued in the last days. But it will be greater than the first century. God never goes from the greater to the lesser. He always goes from the lesser to the greater.

That's why we don't even realize it, but the physical realm is a better realm than the spirit realm. God never creates an inferior situation. He always creates that which is better. Man is better than the angels.

We have a better body than the angels. Everything about the situation is better. What an angel wouldn't get to have a human body. That's why the demons are all the time trying to express themselves because they don't have any body.

No, we got it here. We're always, God, when you're moving in God, you're always moving toward the better. Always, God always has kept the good wine until now. Praise the Lord. Isn't that a happy thought?

No, we don't look back in time to see the greatness of God. We're looking at the future. And what's going on now is preparation. And the Bible bears us out. So that's a wonderful and a happy thought. Any other questions?

Acts 1 .8. Everybody ought to know that from Sunday night, the 1 .8 movement in the four square. I wonder though if they're doing it like Jesus said. I'm going to criticize my own denomination. See, they were asking about the kingdom in verse 6 of Acts 1, but he shunned that aside.

He said, forget that for now. It wasn't time then. Now is the time of the preaching of the kingdom. But he said, but you will receive power. And that word is in the Greek. That's dunamen in the Greek.

You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you. Now notice. Now notice carefully. These men had been trained by Christ for three years. They knew the message. They had the witness. But he said, don't do anything about it.

Wait. Wait. Wait my time. How many see that? You see, when you're talking about 1 .8 in a 1 .8 movement, you're not talking about missions. You're talking about waiting. You see that? You're not talking about going forth in power.

You're talking about waiting. Waiting. And you know, if we're going to have a real 1 .8 experience in the four squares, then we've got to have people who wait and don't do anything until they're endued with power from on high.

Not charge off yelling 1 .8. Isn't that interesting? They had the message, but they didn't have the rest of what God wanted to put on it. So, there comes a time in the history of churches and churchanity.

Well, Audrey and I have lived long enough to see, we've been in Christianity long enough to see the various movements of God. We came in as Pentecost was winding down. Our teachers in Bible school were older, and they remembered, they could take you back to 1912, 1915, and tell us about some of the astonishing things.

Like, I remember one, my Greek teacher, Brother Harris, and I'm not talking about men that talk to hear their teeth rattle. Brother Harris was a Baptist and come into Pentecost and he was a godly man.

Whoa. And he told us about a missionary who had been hurt, injured in some way, and in order to heal him, the Lord raised him right up, suspended him in air and healed him in the air. I mean, there are astonishing things that happened in early Pentecost.

There were several instances where people went and preached in languages they had never learned. In Chinese was one. Man preaching in Chinese, in China, never learned the language. There was all kinds of things like that that happened.

A .C. Valdez, who Audrey, one of Audrey's pastors in the early days, had prayed for someone and they had no eye. And the eye appeared. The eye came right out and was formed in their head. Well, see, this is the same works as Jesus.

Well, this happened in early Pentecost. Well, when... Huh? There was an interesting thing about a yoga person. One of the brethren died and it was like the after. They laid him out there in one of the rooms and someone came in and didn't know he was dead and they got ready to sit down.

For the evening meal and he called out, Brother So-and-so, come on, get here. And the guy got up and came. That was in the Pisco Home Movement mission. They had a mission there and this fellow died in the mission.

I think it was in Los Angeles. But Brother Harris, my Greek teacher, was the secretary to Dr. Yoakum. See, that was the head of the Pisco Home Movement. So he knew what he was talking about. He didn't read it in some tract somewhere.

He knew. Dr. Yoakum one time, Brother Harris said there was a man walking down the street on crutches and Dr. Yoakum didn't even go over there. He just prayed for the man and while they watched, the man picked up his crutches and put them on his shoulders and was walking down the street.

Well, see, that kind of thing was fairly common from 1906 until around 1920. Then it somewhat evaded, but then it went into missions and Pentecost went all over the earth in missions. And when Audrey and I came in in the late 1940s, that was evading.

It was still at a high point in Mexico because as Bible students we went down to Mexico and you could see, see Pentecost, the wheat harvest. And you could just see as those Mexican people were singing, they were singing Caminando, Caminando para que el hogar donde está Jesus.

They were singing while walking with Jesus, you know. De la mano del Señor, Jesus was having the hand of Jesus. And you could just see the wheat waving. You could just see the wheat waving. I thought, boy, that's Pentecost.

But it was evading where we were. In 1948, the whole Pentecostal thing changed in the Bible school. Now this was down in 641 South Boundary Street in San Diego where this happened that I'm telling you about.

In 1947, you could hear the students praying and yelling and tongues and everything. In 1947, you could hear them all the way up to the bus stop which was about 100 yards away. In 1948, you couldn't even force this whole, the Pentecostal way.