Divine Dynamite by J.E. Conant

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building in which to preach the Gospel if it were not for money. You could not support a pastor, you could not hold church services, you could not help the missionaries to take the Gospel to the heathen without money. Money has such power that it is thought to be the all but indispensable thing in the work of the church. But the power we are looking for is not here.

No, it is not in any of these things, nor in any others like them, nor in all of them put together.

Then where is the source of the power we are seeking?

It Comes from God Alone

For it is that Divine dynamite that took possession of the waiting one hundred and twenty in the upper room on the Day of Pentecost, filled them with power, set them on fire, loosened their tongues, broke up their prayer meeting, drove them out among the lost, and set them to witnessing, in other languages, to the wonderful works of God.

It is that power that conquered the passions, prejudices, and pride of a God-hating world, overthrew ancient systems of faith, and swept aside all opposition, until the whole then known earth had been evangelized, as the endued disciples went on through the first century turning the world right side up for God.

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