(Forging the Vessel of Recovery) 6- Recovery of Real Faith — B.H. Clendennen

Recovery of Real Faith and the Vessel of Revival

I want you to turn with me this morning to the book of Hebrews, chapter 11, in the ongoing series, The Vessel of Recovery. And we've carried you along for five days. In this vessel, what it is, why it must be, that the revival that God is going to send demands a vessel for it to come through.

We've used the example of Samuel, Benjamin. All through the Bible has been a remnant that we're harboring. Now, a remnant in the Bible means those that have survived a crisis. Survivors of a crisis. Joshua and Caleb survived that wilderness, desert experience and survived to be the vessel that God would use in the promised land to bring about His testimony.

Every age has had those. The survivors today of a religious hodgepodge that it held true to the principles of the gospel and all the gimmickry of religion is going to be that vessel that God uses in the recovery of His testimony.

The Pentecostal Church and the Recovery of Apostolic Power

Now, the vessel we've dealt with and showed that there is going to be such a vessel. God said what has been will be. There will be a repeat of the revival of the book of Acts. As this age ends, Jesus, as we pointed up yesterday in the vessel of glory, is not coming after a wore-out religious machine.

He will not come after anything less than He started with. Look at that church on the day of Pentecost. All of the glory and the power and the gifts of God in operation, startling the world with the presence of God.

That church that He'll return for will once more demonstrate the power of the living God. In that vessel of recovery, there will be the recovery of real faith, which is our message today. In Hebrews chapter 11 and verse 6,.

But without faith it is impossible to please Him, that's God, for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. Without faith it is impossible to please God.

Again, the Bible says in the book of James,. Whatsoever is not of faith is sin. Those two scriptures have been used in this day and have kind of thrown the church off of balance. They put the church into a struggle for faith.

But that isn't what God's got her at all. It isn't a struggle of faith, it is a struggle to walk in the Spirit. Faith will be a product of that. The struggle is to get rid of me. Get rid of this carnal natural reasoning to walk in the Holy Ghost.

This is the struggle. It isn't a struggle to have faith. If I'm born again, I have faith. The Bible says that you and I, that we are born again by the Word of the living God, and that by grace are we saved through faith, and that faith is not of ourselves.

You couldn't be born again unless God give you the faith to believe. You have faith. And so the struggle isn't to have faith, but the struggle is to walk in the Spirit of God. Those things, I'll demonstrate to you, become synonymous terms.

The Faith and Miracles of the Early Church

Now, that first century church knew the awesome power of the faith of God. They knew that. There was no guesswork with them. They knew the awesome power of the faith of God. The first ten chapters of the book of Acts, all through the book of Acts, but those first ten chapters, as you come right out of that upper room, into the world of Jesus sitting at the right hand of God, the Holy Ghost out forward, those that are the vessel of the Lord, that hundred and twenty, moving out of that upper room to startle a world with the power of God, the awesome power of faith.

You know, I try to read ten chapters out of this book at least every day. When at home, I go down to the church early in the morning. We have a prayer meeting. The church doors open up at five o 'clock.

I'm there to talk to God before that telephone begins to ring, and let Him talk to me through the Word of God. One morning I was there, I began to read, and my reading that day began with the second chapter of the book of Acts, and I read on through the eleventh chapter of the book of Acts.

And it's just like God made my mind a computer, taking note of all the happenings of those first ten chapters of the book of Acts. In the second chapter of the book of Acts, a hundred and twenty people were filled with the Holy Ghost, and three thousand people in the street are begging them to tell them how to get into the kingdom of God.

Amen. Isn't that right? In the second chapter of the book of Acts. In the third chapter of the book of Acts, a crippled man, his healed, five thousand more saved. The apostles are thrown in jail, released.

They went in the fourth chapter of the book of Acts, had a prayer meeting. The house was shaken where they were preaching, and more and more the miracles began to take place. In the fifth chapter, two hypocrites fell dead at the altar, and fear came on the entire community.

Peter walks down the street, his shadda heals the people as he walks down the street. One of the deacons, Philip, is called to Samaria, has a city-wide revival. The whole city turns to God. The Holy Ghost calls him from that down to a desert to talk to one man in a wagon.

God saves that man. When the evangelist pulls him up out of the water, the Holy Ghost picks the evangelist up, carries him thirty-five miles down the road. Peter raises Dorcas from the dead, heals the man of Paul.

Paul struck off with his horse, saved, filled with the Holy Ghost, on and on and on. The awesome power of faith is demonstrated in just the first ten chapters of the book of Acts. They were acquainted with the awesome power of the faith of God.

All that Jesus did, that early church repeated. Can you say amen? Every miracle He did, they repeated. They raised the dead. They opened the eyes of the blind. They healed the palsies. They made the lame to walk again.

Everything that Jesus did, that early church repeated. They did the works that He did. They had witnessed it all before the day of Pentecost. They were with Him. They witnessed all these miracles before the day of Pentecost.

Faith Is Not Founded on Miracles Alone

But Jesus said, listen to me. Never allow them to believe that real faith is born out of merely witnessing a miracle. Your faith is sustained as you see the work of God. But the real faith of God isn't a product of seeing a miracle.

I've saw people in preaching this gospel, moving around this country, that have got terribly excited over a miracle, but yet were dead. Amen. I have, in my lifetime, dealt with people that have been healed of the most awesome diseases, yet backslid and went to hell.

Amen. Faith is not a product of just witnessing a miracle. Amen. It isn't a product of witnessing a miracle. Jesus never allowed those apostles to believe that. In spite of all they had seen, His last command was, carry until.

Carry until you've been endued with power from on high. What was He saying? I'll tell you. He said, don't leave until the Holy Ghost has introduced me to you in a spiritual way. Paul wrote and said, no man will know Him after the flesh.

No more. Henceforth, no man, Christ, after the flesh. He said, don't you leave me here with just your physical knowledge of me. Don't leave Jerusalem until you have had a spiritual encounter with myself, that you know me after the Spirit.

Listen, folks. All things written aforetime was written. The Bible said, for our learning and admonition on whom the ends of this world is come. Everything that's in this Bible, everything wrote in this Bible, the Apostle Paul said in the Book of Romans was, wrote that you and I may learn something.

And if we learn anything, it is that faith doesn't come to the human heart by just witnessing miracles. Israel had saw all the judgment miracles of God in Egypt. They had witnessed the lice, the frogs, the blood, the heel.

They had witnessed the death of the firstborn. They witnessed the ten miracle judgments of God. They had been led out of Egypt by the hand of God. They had watched Him part the Red Sea. They walked across on dry land.

They witnessed Him sweep the waters of Meribah. They watched Him for all of those days. Listen, they had watched Him as He dropped that manna every day at the right place. They witnessed that rock that followed them belching out 27 million gallons of water every day.

They had been led by cloud in the daytime, by fire at night. They had watched Him part the waters of Jordan, kick down the walls of Jericho, make an ax head to swim. They had saw all of that, yet Moses wasn't gone 40 days until Aaron had him naked dancing around the golden calf.

All of this seeing the miracles, they really didn't have any faith. Moses has gone less than 40 days and Aaron's got him naked. You hear me? What Jesus is saying to you and I, everything was written before time was to tell you that your faith is not a product of just seeing a miracle somewhere.

Oh no, your faith is not a product. Listen, real faith is born out of a personal intimate reunion or union rather with Jesus Christ. Hallelujah. I said hallelujah. Faith is born out of a personal intimate union with the Lord Jesus Christ.

We must believe that God is. Amen. I said we must believe that God is and that He is a rewarder of those that diligently seek Him. That is the place of faith. Real faith is born out of that knowledge of God.

Amen. Out of that knowledge of God. If you can grasp the first statement of the Bible, In the beginning God, then the rest of it will fall in line. If I can take a hold to the first statement of the Bible, If I allow God, I'll never have any trouble with that quail story of the book of Exodus or with Jonah being swallowed by a whale.

Because if I allow God, then all things become possible. I must have an encounter with God. If I know God, I will believe God. Oh, let me tell you something. We have tried to build our faith on the sensational.

But it must be founded upon a personal encounter with God. To believe that God is, one must meet God. I said you must meet God. It must not be a little hocus-pocus religion, just being baptized or joining a church.

I must be intimately acquainted with Almighty God. I must know Him as my friend, my Lord, my Savior. I must wake up with that knowledge, go to bed with that knowledge. I have met God. I was born again 35 years ago.

And all that I've seen in this religious world, I thank God. I didn't know anything. I went into that church a drunk going to hell. I come out sober going to heaven. I wasn't sent to a farm. I was born again.

I met God. I set free. And it is the faith born out of that experience that's kept me through it all. Kept me through it all. I haven't been saved very long. Had a meeting about 200 miles away from me.

I hear an advertisement on the radio, the blind see deaf hear lame walk. Oh, I said to Mark, we're going to go see that. When I got my days off, we headed out. Oh, we sat on the front seat. I like these folks.

I don't want nobody between me and what's going on on the platform. Amen. You get back there in the back, they feed them kids crackers, water them 25 times. Amen. I get up front. I don't want to miss anything.

We got there early. I sat down on the front seat. Ain't nobody there but me and two or three others. I asked one man, I said, how long you been here? He said, man, I helped put this tent up. I said, let me tell you.

The first time one of them blind folks whose eyes have been healed comes in here. I want you to show him to me. I never saw anybody but blind eyes. Just been saved at that time. Hadn't seen anybody blind healed.

I want to talk to him. He said, oh, there hadn't been any blind folks healed yet. Oh, yes, there is. I heard it on the radio. He said, the blind are seeing and the lame are walking. I said, I heard it on the radio.

Well, he said, that didn't happen. I said, any of them folks, them lame folks, you show them to me. I'll talk to them. Well, he said, any of that happened yet either. I said, oh, yeah, I hear it on the radio every day.

That's the reason I'm here. I come out here to be in this meeting. Well, he said, hasn't any of that happened yet. I said, well, the man said it on the radio. He said, no, that's faith. I said, no, that's lying.

I packed up and went home. Let me tell you something, folks. I was born again. That didn't shake me. That didn't change one thought about God because my faith was based upon one thing. I had a personal encounter with God.

I met God. He changed my life. David wrote in Psalms 9 and 10, they that know thy name will put their trust in thee. I'm talking about real faith. They that know thy name will put their trust in thee.

You know what name means in the Bible? Name denotes character. When you read name in the Bible, you look it up, you'll find it's character. Jacob meant he's a surplatter. He's a cheat. He's a crooked.

That'd screw him in the ground when they buried him. That's what his name meant. To know the name of God is to know the character of God. When I met God, I met God. And to know God is to trust God. Hallelujah.

If you become intimately acquainted with God, there is no trouble trusting God. Faith, faith. Based, based upon a knowledge of God, I met God. Oh, that's it. Born again. I had an experience, an encounter with God.

And he that comes to God must believe that God is. And to believe that God is demands that you have a personal encounter with God. Faith foundeth on the fact that God is, can, and will overcome every situation of life.

Faith founded upon this fact that God is, can, and will overcome. You won't knock that out. But if your faith is founded just upon the excitement of a religious service, I can promise you, ladies and gentlemen, there's going to be a time when it isn't that exciting.

When you're just going to have to get up and walk on. Oh, listen. When I got to be about 23 years old, I met a beautiful little old farm girl in Texas. She was the prettiest thing I ever seen in my life.

I never wanted anything so bad in my life. I wooed her and won her and took her home with me. Amen. Yes, sir. She's still, after this, about 38 years, still about the prettiest thing I've ever seen. But to wake up one morning and her in rollers.

Amen. And nothing but just her. Amen. You know, I still loved her just the same. Amen. She could make herself prettier than she was at that point. But it had nothing to do with it. I said, nothing to do with it.

Amen. And that was the time that it was founded upon a relationship. Thank God, listen, for the excitement of the service. Thank God for the moving of the Holy Ghost. Thank God for the cripples of walking.

But thank God when all of it's gone, it's still a matter of faith. I tell you, it's still a matter of faith. Paul can shout when the whole city of Antioch comes to hear him preach. Amen. Or anybody can jump.

I believe God hears a whole city that's come out here to hear me preach. But what about it, Paul, when it's Philippi and it's after midnight and you're in the bottom hole of a jail and don't nobody know where you are and a thousand devils said you're going to rot here.

Your back is laid open. Infection is set in. Fevers 105. The heads are busting. Have at them. He's shot anyway. You know why? His faith wasn't on the fact that a city come to hear him preach. His faith was in the fact that he knew Jesus.

I said he knew Jesus. And Jesus is just as real in the bottom of that jail as he was in a citywide meeting in Antioch. Glory to God forever. John Bunyan, the author of the Pilgrim's Progress, spent 12 years in a Bedford jail.

They had put him in this. Sometime when they locked him up, they put him in a little cell that the man of God couldn't even sit down. When he tried to sit down, his knees had hit the front of the cell and his back had hit the back of it.

Fed him hog slop like an animal. They'd feed him that slop every day they'd come in. For days they wouldn't even remove the human refuse from that cell where he was. But every day when they shoved that slop to him, they said to him, We'll let you out of here if you'll deny what you believe.

And every day he gave the same answer. Why'd I want out of here, sir? Anywhere that Christ is, is a kingdom now for me. Oh, glory to God. I'm talking about a faith built upon knowing God, met God. Oh, yes, sir.

Whether I'm talking in tongues or not, I love God and believe God. Whether I'm prophesying or not, I love God, believe God. Whether I'm in the excitement of a great revival like this or I'm wrestling with the problems of a local church, I still know God and my faith is exactly the same.

If I've got a pocket full of money, wonderful. If I don't have any money, that never changed God at all. Whether I drive a Rolls Royce or a Volkswagen doesn't mean nothing to God. We've tried to make faith in those things.

We've tried to make faith things. Oh, brothers and sisters, if you've got enough money to buy your Rolls Royce, I haven't got any quarrels with that. If you've still enough to go in debt for it, that's your business.

But faith doesn't have anything to do with it because God doesn't care whether you ride a buggy, bicycle, Volkswagen or automobile or airplane. It is your acquaintance with God. It is your knowledge of God Almighty.

Amen. I can do all things through Christ is a testimony of a man personally acquainted with Christ. And when he says none of these things move me because my faith is not built upon things. It's built upon a relationship with a person.

Hallelujah. I said hallelujah. Built upon a relationship with a person. Now for faith to progress from that beginning, when you meet God, you're saved by faith that's not of yourself. That encounter with God, that faith built upon the person of Christ, you met Him, you know Him.

He's yours, you're His. And faith begins. But for faith to progress from that beginning of a knowledge of God, then there must be an absolute belief in the infallibility of the Word of God. There must be.

No question marks. I must believe, this book, that it doesn't contain the Word of God. It is the Word of God. And my faith to progress, to move on, to be effective, to produce what God intends for it to produce must have an absolute belief in the infallibility of the Word of God.

Real faith knows that no experience, no personal advantage, no circumstance, no situation can alter one word of God. And I sat down in a couple of months from now to figure out that 1984 income and how much I owes him.

No matter whether I believe he uses it right or not, faith demands that I know I can alter what God says that he's looking over my shoulder. And when I get through with that return, it's exactly what I believe it to be.

To gain a few hundred dollars by lying on that, the Word of God doesn't allow that. I must know, I must believe in the infallibility of this book and recognize beyond any a shot of a doubt that there is no circumstance that can alter that.

Nothing. I don't care what your circumstance are. I don't care what excuse you use for sinning. Amen. There is no circumstance. There is nothing that gives you the right, amen, to alter this book of God.

The true believer cannot be an existentialist. Amen. It don't work, brother. He cannot be that. He is not governed by situation ethics. His world is black and white. His yes is yes. His no is no. It's not yea and nay.

It isn't shaking the head both ways. I read what this book says. I live by it. It doesn't matter what it calls me. I must believe that this Bible is infallible. I have no right to change any of it. I'm not governed by what people are governed by.

By the world. They had an old song years ago, Everybody's Doing It. Everybody's Doing It. That pretty well become the motto of a generation. If everybody else is doing it, that makes it right. Well, I can tell you right now, most everybody is on a broad road going to hell.

It's a narrow road and few people finding it simply because they're trying to change something about this book. God said what He meant. God meant what He said. And the faith of God in a believer enables that believer to stand on and be true to the Word of God regardless of the cost to that individual.

And you can be sure, ladies and gentlemen, it's going to cost you. When John stood on the banks of that Jordan, he made the rocky banks of the Jordan River the front street of the world. They came from everywhere.

The king, the religious, all of them came to hear him. And the man of God, his dyed locusts and wild honey, you'd have a hard time getting this tuxedo crowd today to carry on that kind of a campaign. But his garments was a camel hair and he stood there in the waters of the Jordan and preached the truth.

Amen. The soldier says, what does repentant mean to us? He said it means being kind. Turn from your cruelty. Treat every man right. Be content with your wages. Oh, my. Every soldier that walked into that water saying, I made a change.

I'm going to treat other folks right. The tax collector. What about us, John? Quit stealing the state's money. Take no more than what belongs to you. Treat everybody right. Now, that's the mafia of the first century, folks.

Amen. They're stealing. And every one of those tax collectors that went into the waters of the Jordan was saying, I'm not going to steal anymore. And the others that didn't go in the water said, we've got to kill him because he's going to tell everybody else what we're doing.

All I'm telling you, it costs something to be true to the Word of God. And religious bunch. What about us? He said, the ax is laid at your tree. Right there. You bring forth fruit that proves to me you repented.

You're not bringing that religious in here. You're not bringing Mary in here, holy water in here. You're not bringing Mohammed in here. You're not bringing a mixture in here. You start over here. There's nothing you ever knew before now that's brought you into any recognition of this.

You start over. You must be born again. Way out there in the crowd, in that gold bottom chariot, with the finest horses, is Mr. Herod, the king. Hey John, what about your king? He loaded that rapid-firing gospel gun with the seventh commandment and said, it ain't lawful for you to have that woman.

He didn't write to change anything. It may cost me your offering. It may cost me my head. It may cost you the fellowship with your church. But you have no right to change it. And real faith believes in the infallibility of God's Word.

Our evangelist said it the other night. I stood straight up. He said it the other night. He says always, I can't doubt God because what God let him see. But what he's saying too, as he said the other night, the faith in him that can't doubt God didn't come, he said, by seeing a miracle.

He said it came because I met him personally. He is preaching on the woman. And the people said we believe now not because what you said, any second hand no more. We believe because we met him. And that faith founded upon a personal experience with God Almighty must be sustained by faith in the infallible.

Oh, unalterable, unamendable Word of the living God. This land's been destroyed by judges setting on courts, ruling in law. And they'll interpret that law differently to every case. They have no right to that.

That law was written by the Congress and that law was written to apply to every human being. If you break, this is what's supposed to happen. That isn't the way it is. They interpret that, how much money you got, how much influence you got.

And the nation has been destroyed. And the church has been watered down by preachers that had altered the Word of God to fit some phony somebody that was a place in the church. James said if he's covered up with gold and comes in, and a poor man without shoes, they both have a right to the front seat of the church in the presence of the living God.

And if you make it different, you've changed this book. You've changed this book. Let me tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that faith to be sustained must begin with a personal encounter with God. He that comes to God must believe that God is.

And you can't believe that unless you met Him. You met Him. You come personally acquainted with God. I met God. Amen. Now listen, I met God. I know God. Hallelujah. Listen. Then having recovered the real faith, we must, from the Word of God, learn the laws that govern that faith.

The Laws That Govern Real Faith

Oh, listen. You just don't hocus-pocus this. That's the reason I'm blessed traveling here. Amen. I see reality. I don't see no gimmicks and games in trying to force God into a corner. The message that the priest here deals, whether he calls it or not, deals with the laws that govern whether this thing works for you and I or not.

You know and I know to know and to obey the laws that govern anything in this world will cause that thing to work for you. Even if you know and obey diligently the laws that govern anything, you're seeing churches explode in this country.

They've learned principles that'll make any organization on this earth grow. And because they obeyed those laws, it's wonderful. I've got no kicks. I'm telling you it's wonderful when they're obeyed. Amen.

It causes that physical growth. But yet that don't mean necessarily that it's spiritual. It may or may not be. I know a church that's logged as the fastest growing church in America. Amen. And after a while, it wound up in all of that growth.

The pastor had been running the harm. Couldn't be nothing spiritual about that. Had five or six women on the strain. But yet the church grew. And I'm saying to know and to obey the laws that govern anything on this earth will cause that thing to work for you.

What's true in the natural world is true in the spiritual world. Amen. It is the same. Learn the laws. And when you know the laws, it'll work for you. When we know and believe in these laws, wonderful things take place in the life of those that have this faith.

Now when the conditions are right, when the laws and the principles are obeyed and applied, you don't have to beg God to move. Isaiah 58 and 8 says, Then your life shall break forth as the morning, your health spring forth speedily.

God said God's righteousness would be before you. His glory would be behind you. And when you pray, God will say, I'm right here. He said the Lord would guide you continually. And even in a drought, your soul be satisfied if you walk in accord with the laws and the principles of faith.

You don't have to struggle around, wrestle with demons. Amen. You walk according to the laws that govern this that I'm calling real faith. There's a lot going on today that hasn't got anything to do with faith.

Amen. Hasn't got a thing in the world to do with faith. And you can tell it because isn't anything taking place. But this faith I'm talking about works. Then shall your life break forth as the morning.

You know what that means? That means life is life. Whose life? God's life. John 1 and 4 said in him was life. L-I-F-E. And that life was the life of men. When you walk in accord with God, you're born again.

You walk in the word of God, obeying the principles and laws that govern the faith of God, then the life of God will go before you. It is said in the book of Psalms that the life of God in Judah, a man caused that Red Sea to run from him.

I can tell you right now if you walk with God and God's life flows from you, the devil will take his flight. Your health, he said, a springful, speedily. Brother Schambach preached the other night. He said, I don't say it out here.

There's such a mixed crowd. They don't understand what you're saying. But he said, my church, I preach health, not healing. Amen. Health, not healing. You know what he's saying? He said, you walk according to this.

You live according to this. Your health will break forth speedily. Amen. This Holy Ghost flowing through them arteries, flowing through them joints, wash out arthritis. Thank God, make pancreas come alive.

Make cancers fall off. Blind eyes to see. I'm telling you, the river heals whatever it touches. And if we're a vessel it flows through, it'll heal internally as well as externally. Just obey these laws.

Know them. Obey them. Walk in them. You'll discover this thing works just like he said it would work. Listen, we look at some of the laws here this morning, and what time we got left to govern this thing called faith.

Now, I know when you go to talk about this, people are looking for some mechanical something. Amen. They're always looking. I was preaching a convention. I was a main day speaker in a large convention in Houston, Texas.

Brother Schambach preaches it this year. He's a night speaker. I was a day speaker. Always had one or two others along in the morning. You know, had them in the morning before the main speaker. I took it at 10 .30 and had the rest of the day if I needed it.

But he allotted 40, 45 minutes to two others, and the man that come on before me was a young man. Amen. He hadn't been around very long, maybe 20 years old. You could have a look at him. He hadn't fought many beasts of Ephesus.

Amen. But he read his text, and he said, my message this morning is the technique of the Word. Oh, I said, Lord, I gotta get ahold of this. And when he preached it was x minus y times pi r squared equals a miracle.

Only trouble is no miracle came. You know what I'm talking about. It's just all one, two, three, four, and here it is. But it wasn't there. I said it wasn't there. And when you talk about the laws of faith, then people are kind of expecting you to come along, that they can go home and rub their nose twice on this side, sleep on their back, be baptized face downward, repeat this three times a day, and they're going to have something work for them.

I didn't come here to tell you that. I come here to tell you that the first law of faith is, come out from among them and be ye separate. Sayeth the Lord, and I will be your God. If he is my God, I can tell you right now, my faith is a working good.

The first law of faith, come out from among them. Be ye separate, saith the Lord. Hallelujah. I'm in the world. I'm not of the world. We're here pilgrims and strangers. Thank God when our affections get on things below, we've missed it.

I praise God for everything that he's given me. I praise God. I've got a home to live in. I've got a car to drive. I've got food to eat. Got money in my pocket. But I'll tell you one thing, there's a time when me and the evangelist back here both, we never had none of that.

Amen. We'd like to have a hamburger to split five or six ways with the family. And we were talking the other night about one o 'clock, if the car goes and the house goes and the money's gone, I'll still walk on with God.

I said I'll still walk on with God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. My affections are not on things on this earth. I'm not in love with an automobile. I'm not in love with a house. I'm not in love with a bank account.

I'm in love with a man called Jesus. Hallelujah. Come out from among them. You're not a part of that. That isn't what your life is made of. It didn't consist of the abundance of what you have. It doesn't consist of the entertainment of this world.

Amen. It doesn't consist with a rotten world. It's an enemy of God. He's saying to me come out from among them and be ye separate. Faith and the Spirit become synonymous terms. Listen. If the Spirit is working, faith is working.

You believe that? If the Spirit is working, faith is working. If we could get this over. Amen. If we could get this over. The other night, the power of God broke out in here. Amen. People just exploded.

It wasn't nothing planned. Nobody said come down here. We're all gonna dance together. I mean, it exploded. The power of God hit this temp. I talked to a man doing the prayer service for the children moving around.

He said, Brother Clendon and out on the parking lot, they were laying on the ground prevailing before God. We didn't know that we're in here. He was telling me about what he run across all over out there.

The things that were happening. If we could get this over to you, that when that Spirit is working like that, faith is working. You can be set free. Faith and the Spirit are synonymous terms. When I first got saved, I read the Bible.