just about ready to take His seat at the
right hand of God, and He spoke unto them and said: "All power is
given unto Me in heaven and on earth." All power, so then He had
authority. If Christ was mere man, as some people try to make out, it
would have been blasphemy for Him to have said to the disciples, go
and baptize all nations in the name of the Father, and in His own
name, and in that of the Holy Ghost, making Himself equal with the
Father.

There are three things: _All power_ is given unto Me; go _teach all_
nations. Teach them what? To _observe all_ things. There are a great
many people now that are willing to observe what they like about
Christ, but the things that they don't like they just dismiss and turn
away from. But His commission to His disciples was, "Go teach all
nations to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you." And
what right has a messenger who has been sent of God to change the
message? If I had sent a servant to deliver a message, and the servant
thought the message didn't sound exactly right--a little harsh--and
that servant went and changed the message, I should change servants
very quickly; he could not serve me any longer. And when a minister or
a messenger of Christ begins to change the message because he thinks
it is not exactly what it ought to be, and thinks he is wiser than
God, God just dismisses that man.

They haven't taught "all things." They have left out some of the
things that Christ has commanded us to teach, because they didn't
correspond with man's reason. Now we have to take the Word of God just
as it is; and if we are going to take it, we have no authority to take
out just what we like, what we think is appropriate, and let dark
reason be our guide.

It is the work of the Spirit to impress the heart and seal the
preached word. His office is to take of the things of Christ and
reveal them unto us.

Some people have got an idea that this is the only dispensation of the
Holy Ghost; that He didn't work until Christ was glorified. But Simeon
felt the Holy Ghost when he went into the temple. In 2d Peter, i. 21,
we read: "Holy men of old spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost."
We find the same Spirit in Genesis as is seen in Revelation. The same
Spirit that guided the hand that wrote Exodus inspired also the
epistles, and we find the same Spirit speaking from one end of the
Bible to the other. So holy men in all ages have spoken as they were
moved by the Holy