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That which I am giving you from the word of God

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is vitally important to all of us. And remember,

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this comes from the highest authority in heaven

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and earth. It comes from thus saith the Lord.

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Turn, if you will, please, to that little book

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of Joel. It's a very sharp book. and yet vitally

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important, especially to those of us living today.

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For the whole picture in this little book is

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of the end time of this present age, of the times

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of the Gentiles. It's more important to us today

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than any generation that has ever lived. Let

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me begin reading, if you will, please, the first

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chapter of Joel. The second verse. Hear this,

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ye old men. Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the

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land. Hath this been in your days, or even in

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the days of your fathers? Tell ye your children

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of it, and let your children tell their children,

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and let their children another generation. That

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which the palmer worm hath left, hath the locust

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eaten. And that which the locust hath left, hath

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the canker worm eaten. And that which the canker

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worm hath left, hath the caterpillar eaten. Now,

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go a little further, into that second chapter,

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and I will rest. to you the years that the locust

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hath eaten, the canker worm, and the caterpillar,

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and the palmer worm, my great army which I sent

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among you. Go a little further, don't stop there,

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and it shall come to pass afterward that I will

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pour out of my spirit upon all flesh, and your

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sons and your daughters shall prophesy. Your

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old men shall dream dreams. Your young men shall

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see visions. And also upon the servants and upon

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the handmaids in those days will I pour out my

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Spirit. This is the very Word of God. Now, pause

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just a moment. On the day of Pentecost, some

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3 ,000 souls were saved. And then we see Peter

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and John going up to the temple, going up to

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pray. And they passed a lame man at the beautiful

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gate who asked alms of them. And Peter answers,

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silver and gold have I none. I have nothing material

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that I can give you. But such as I have I given

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to thee. In the name of Christ, rise up and walk.

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And something happened. You talk about a miracle

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service. You and I stand awed when we see men

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and women get up out of the wheelchairs. We've

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seen some mighty miracles. But this was a glorious

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miracle service. at the gate of the temple. The

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lame man was healed instantly. And whether the

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priests in the temple believed in manifestations

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or not, I do not know. I've wondered many a time.

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But at any rate, the man went into that temple

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walking, leaping, and praising God. Oh, I missed

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it. That was one miracle service I missed, I

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wished. I could have been there. But one thing

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I do know, it was the same pal the Holy Ghost

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that went through that body of that lame man.

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I don't think they had wheelchairs then. He had

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been brought to the gate of the temple and probably

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had to be taken home, carried home. They didn't

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have wheelchairs. But we do know that the lame

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man was healed. Instantly, he went running into

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the temple. Oh, that was glorious. Now in Acts,

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the fifth chapter, the 16th verse, we see the

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multitudes out of the cities round about Jerusalem

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bringing sick folk and those that were vexed

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with unclean spirits. And they were healed, everyone.

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Sick were brought forth into the streets. laid

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on beds and couches, that at least the very shadow

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of Peter passing by might overshadow some of

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them. Signs and wonders were wrought everywhere

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by the hands of the apostles, true to the word

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of our Lord, who had said, Greater works than

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these shall ye do, because I go to my Father.

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In other words, he's saying, even greater works

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because the Holy Spirit will come unto you. All

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physical healing is of God. All healing is of

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God. The same Holy Spirit that flowed to the

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bodies then is the same Holy Spirit that flows

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through bodies now. The church in those days

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stood blazing with the full Pentecostal power

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and the glory of the Holy Spirit. The words of

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Jesus were fulfilled. In deed and in truth, they

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were endued with power from on high. There was

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timid Peter, who just a short kind before the

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coming of the Holy Spirit, had seen Jesus look

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into his face and say, Peter, I pray that thy

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faith faileth. Timid Peter, who had once feared

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a little girl who asked him if he knew Jesus,

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he was so timid that he denied that he even knew

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Jesus Christ. Oh, beloved, it was thrilling in

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the early church when they were conscious of

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the power of the Spirit. illiterate men and women

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were turned into flaming evangelists the outpouring

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of the holy spirit was not unto the jews alone

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but unto the gentiles also every gift all the

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fruits of the spirit were manifested in the early

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church until the nine gifts and the nine fruits

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of the Spirit hung as eighteen perfect apples

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upon the perfect tree. And we read the scripture.

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For to one was given by the Spirit the word of

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wisdom, to another the word of knowledge by the

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same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit,

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to another the gift of healing by the same Spirit,

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to another the working of miracles, to another

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prophecy, to another the discerning of spirits,

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to another diverse kinds of tongues, to another

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the interpretation of tongues. The early church,

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so conscious of the power of the Holy Spirit,

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The sick were healed. Miracles were wrought.

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Oh, it was glory. Each of the nine fruits was

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in the church. Love, joy, peace, goodness, gentleness,

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faith, meekness, temperance, long -suffering.

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It was perfect. But something happens. The palmer

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began to work. And thus ends the first chapter

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of the early church history. Leaving the tree

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rooted and grounded in the faith of Jesus. Every

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limb, every branch, every leaf. The fruit in

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perfect power and strength. All glorious days

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of love and unity. Days when none called ought

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that he had his own. Days when the children of

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the Lord had all things in common. Days when

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they were beaten and imprisoned. Days when prison

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bonds were broken. Signs and wonders were wrought.

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Oh, we've often wished they might have continued.

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But they didn't. Slowly but surely. The palmer

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worm began to work. And one day, the palmer worm

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appeared, eating and destroying as it went. Until

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as the years went by, the gifts and the fruits

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of the spirit began to disappear from view. Not

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so many sick were healed as they used to be.

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Not so many miracles were performed. Faith was

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on the wane. When someone in the assembly had

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a message in tongues, there was no one who had

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the gift of interpretation. Messages and prophecy

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were not so frequently given as they used to

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be. The fruits of unselfish love and joy and

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peace were also attacked. by the palmer worm

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who grew bolder and bolder day by day and gradually

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the eighteen apples began to disappear from the

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stanch and upright tree which had stood so gloriously

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heavily laden for so many years after the coming

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of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost. It

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did not stop with the havoc wrought by the palmer

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worm. The enemy never stops. Other years and

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other worms took up the work of destruction which

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the palmer worm had left off. And that which

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the palmer worm hath left hath the locust eaten.

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And now we see the locust at work in the church.

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The work of the locust is, of course, wrought

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upon the leaves. He strips and lays barren all

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that he touches. Thus not only were the gifts

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and the fruits of the Spirit lost sight of, by

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the vast majority of believers, but the personal

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incoming and indwelling of the Holy Spirit was

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also lost, as humility and godliness and the

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manifestations of the Holy Spirit also vanished.

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The Holy Spirit, as gentle as a dove, was quenched

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and grieved. and stifled until he silently withdrew

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his wonder -working manifestations and joy and

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gladness were withheld from the sons of men and

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the church grew cold few miracles practically

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no power there always was A few of the faithful

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who were filled with the spirit. Saints through

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whom God manifested himself in a real and a supernatural

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way. It was a sad day. It was a very sad day

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for the church when the leaves were thus stripped

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from the tree and the locust had done its work.

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but days that were still more sad were to follow

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for we read that which the locust hath left hath

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the tanker -worm eaten after the fruit and the

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leaves had been destroyed the tanker -worm immediately

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made his appearance and began his work upon the

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branches and the tender shoots of the tree, making

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cankerous and unsound that God -fearing work

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of holiness. Oh, beloved, that's one thing that

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the Holy Spirit brings into an assembly and into

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the life of a Spirit -filled person. And that

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is holiness. But soon holiness began to disappear.

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As the sap, the life of the tree was consumed

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and the branches became more and more tenuous.

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And unsound things that used to seem sinful appeared

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sinful no longer. The world that used to be barred

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outside the doors of the church now leaned back

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in contented lethargy in the cushioned pews.

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Christians let down more and more in the high

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standard of holiness under the Lord, which they

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had been holding so dear to their hearts, and

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now it trailed, bedraggled, and unnoticed in

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the dust. Quickly upon the trail of the canker

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worm followed the caterpillar. And then we read

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that that which a canker worm hath left hath

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the caterpillar eaten. The perfect tree is no

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longer perfect. Script of her fruits. Script

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of her leaves. Her branches made white. Laid

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clean bare. It was not long until the trunk and

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the roots began to decay, and the caterpillar

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made his nest in the decayed and rutted hollows

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of the tree. No tree can eke out its existence

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long without leaves through which to breathe,

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and its branches and limbs through which the

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sap and light courses through its veins. For

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a believer to live without Holy Spirit, The very

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breath of life, or the holy life as Jesus is

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revealed by the Spirit, coursing through his

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veins, is to eke out a meager, barren existence,

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nowhere recorded in the Word of God. It wasn't

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long. The fruit was gone. The leaves gone, the

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branches bare, the trunk decayed. Not only decayed,

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but rotten. A nest for the caterpillar. In other

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words, the fruits and the gifts of the Spirit

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were gone. The baptism of the Holy Spirit was

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denied. Separation and holiness was gone. Justification

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by faith was gone. The power, the glory of the

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Holy Spirit was no longer there. The church stood

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in name only, without power. She entered into

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the Dark Ages, and no wonder they are called

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the Dark Ages. Ah, dark indeed is the night without

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Jesus, for he is the very light of the world.

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And when the church lost sight of justification

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by faith, when they lost sight of the atonement,

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when they began to deny the blood of the Lord

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Jesus Christ, when the church began to deny the

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very deity and divinity of the very Son of the

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Living God, there was a total... eclipse and

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we find men and women groping in this darkness

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trying to win their way to heaven by doing penance

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sure read church history it's all there but watch

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something he does not leave us in Total darkness.

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God had a perfect plan. And God is never defeated.

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Always remember that. It was his plan that the

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church should go out in glorious victory. And

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I promise you upon the authority of God's word

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that his church will go out in glorious victory.

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Know that. Believe that. God will carry out his

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plan to the crossing of every T, the dotting

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of every I. And back there in that little book

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of Joel, Way back there in that little book of

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Joel, the Holy Spirit, through Joel, gave us

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a picture of the church today, his church. And

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I can promise you upon the authority of God's

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word that we're on the threshold of the greatest

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restoration The greatest spiritual restoration

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that the world has ever known. You say, Catherine

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Cooman, how can you say that in the light of

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that which is taking place in the world today?

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I give it to you upon the authority of God's

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word. For God's word said, I will restore to

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you. the years that the locust hath eaten the

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pankoworm the caterpillar and the palmerworm

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my great almy which i stand among you oh look

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up rejoice look up my friend our redemption draweth

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nigh The restoration comes as meat in due season,

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as line upon line, precept upon precept, here

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a little and there a little, until today we are

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nearing the completion of this restoration, and

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Jesus is coming soon to take his church, a perfect

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church, not a defeated church. A perfect church,

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his bride, his fruit -laden tree unto himself,

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transplanted from earth to heaven. The tree will

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bloom and yield her fruit by the great river

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of life forever and ever and ever. And he is

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restoring his church to that to which it was.

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at the very beginning. Beloved, this is one of

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the most thrilling things that I could give you.

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Look up, rejoice. Do you wonder why this great

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coming out from the Catholic organization, from

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the Protestant organizations, Why today there

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are literally thousands of Jews who are becoming

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interested in the Word of God, the true Messiah,

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the things of the Spirit? Things are happening

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today in the church that didn't happen 25 years

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ago. That didn't happen 15 years ago. Here we're

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meeting. Catholic priests, Protestant ministers,

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rabbis, in one place of worship, all hungry for

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the things of the Spirit, all seeking the things

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of the Spirit. I will restore to you all this

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great coming out. is nothing more less than prophecy

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being fulfilled i will restore to you the years

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that the locust hath eaten the tanker -worm the

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caterpillar and the palmer -worm the great restoration

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is taking place now