<TITLE>11. Par 49-54</TITLE>L-49 Let's read a little farther. Don't bow down to them. Don't serve them. Destroy their images.
 You shall serve the Lord your God. And He shall bless thy bread and thy water; and I will take sickness out of the midst of thee. (Hallelujah.)
God said that. If God said that in the type of the journey, how much more He--is He in the actual journey? If a brass serpent would take the sickness out of the midst, what will Jesus Christ do?
And Jesus said, "As (the same reason, a compound reason.) Moses lifted up the brass serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man." They were sinned against God and against Moses and they were sick because they did it. And the ant--or the type taking away sickness, what will the antitype do? If a brass serpent did it, what will Jesus Christ do?
He said, "As the Son of man... As Moses lifted up the brass serpent, so must the Son of man be lifted up."

L-50 Now, "I'll bless thy bread and water." Oh, my. That's all right, bread and water. And boy, that would've sure hurt our American prestige, wouldn't it? It sure would. If you was down with bread and water.
I heard a Finnish sister today, singing a song. She works for us here translating the letters from Finland, here in Chicago. And she said... a little song. She said a man in Finland came down with a little salt and some bread and he... and a--a horse trough to drink from. And he lifted up his eyes and give thanks to God for the bread and salt and the horse trough to drink from.
And we rake out enough food in the garbage can every Sunday afternoon to feed the people. Oh, we're really... I think... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... like that about when the Hebrew children was down in the fiery furnace, or when they first went down into--to Babylon.
You know, God looked--looked down and He seen He had a man down there He could trust by the name of Daniel. He had three more, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. So He knewed He could trust them. So He told them not to... how... what the--the laws they must do while they were down there.

L-51 And Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king's meat. That's just exactly... When you say you're going to do anything, going to accept your healing or you're going to accept your--the baptism of the Holy Ghost, that's when the devil flies on you with all four feet. That's right.
When he got down there, he said what he was going to do. The king come around and seen there was an excellent spirit in Daniel. So he said, "Now, you put them fellows over there and feed them."

L-52 I guess the doctor had come along, and said, "Now, look. They need plenty of vitamins, so I tell you, you got to give them some wine, and some hard drinks, and some fattening things, a whole lot of calories in it, a lot of meat and a lot of stuff."
The king said, "I'll feed them off my own table."
But when it come down to old Daniel (Amen.), they met somebody there that loved the Lord.

L-53 The guy that come in the audience; he said, "Now looky here," said, "here's a dish the king sent down." Said, "Just look how it looks." A great big gobbler full of whiskey setting on it. Said, "Now, the king wants you to be happy, so he's just going to give you some of this now, keep you stimulated up."
He said, "I--I just won't drink it."
"Oh," he said, "I'm afraid for my own life and yours."
Said, "I tell you what you do," said, "you just give me pulse for ten days and then look me over." Amen. "Otherwise, a little...?... lentil, some corn pone, or whatever you want to call it. Just give me a little of it for ten days and then examine me against the rest of them."

L-54 Brother, I'd rather have a little bit and be in the Kingdom of God, and doing what God wants me to do, than have a whole lot, and be away from the Kingdom of God. I'd rather take my way with a bunch of little holy-rollers and live in the Presence of God than to belong to the biggest church in Chicago and be out of the Kingdom of God. Amen.


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