<TITLE>05. Par 19-22</TITLE>L-19 Now, in the setting forth of prophecy, we have to notice that God uses many parables, such as many times He said like when Jesus, at the inauguration, all the high places was made low; the mountains skipped like little rams, and the leaves clap their hands: many symbols in the Bible.
And God has likened His heritage here on earth, His church, liken unto a vine. He's likened them to many things: like unto a woman. And this time He's speaking of His church liken unto a vine. And in the vine, over in Kings we find of a false vine. And the vines look almost alike. For instance, when Elijah was up at the seminary, the school of the prophets... And in there he sent a man out who was supposed to be, now, a trained scholar with all of his teaching, to go out and get some food to sustain life. They were hungry.

L-20 A very beautiful type of today: when the church is hungry, God wants His children fed with the Bread of Life, not with some theory, but with the Bread of Life. Who or what is this Bread of Life? Jesus said, "I am the Bread of Life that came from God out of heaven." Said, "Your father's eat manna in the wilderness," Hebrew--or John 6: they "eat manna in the wilderness and they're every one dead. But I am the Bread of Life that come from God out of heaven. If any man eats this Bread, he shall never die." Or in other words, "I'm the Tree of Life from the garden of Eden." And if they eat of the tree of death, they died. If they eat of the Tree of Life, they live.
The Holy Spirit guarded the Tree of Life until the Atonement was made, and now the Holy Spirit is running the people to the Tree of Life. Adam and Eve was trying to get to the Tree of Life. Now their children are trying to stay away from the Tree of Life. The Holy Spirit was guarding it; now--now It's bringing them to It, and they refuse to hear the Holy Spirit's voice, because the same adversary that caused them to sin in the beginning is keeping them away from the Tree of Life. And Jesus Christ is the Tree of Life.

L-21 The woman Eve was the tree of death. We all taste of her, being born in this world. And as sure as we're borned of a woman, we've got to die. And as sure as we're borned of the Man, Jesus Christ, we live forever. Yes. If you eat that, you're sure to die. If you eat this, you're sure to live.
Oh, my, I love those glorious words which anchors the human soul in a troublesome time like this when nothing else can do it. It's come down till you can't put confidence in your nation. You can't put confidence anywhere. But "On Christ, the Solid Rock I stand, all other grounds is sinking sands." Amen.

L-22 Said, "Go out and get some food, some porridge" or peas, it was, to make some porridge. And this scholar, perhaps graduated, Ph.D., goes out, and instead of getting food, he picked off of a vine that looked just like a good vine. But instead of it being peas, it was wild gourds. See, there is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is the ways of death. "Not all that saith unto Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter in, but he that doeth the will of My Father which is in heaven. And this is the Father's will, that you should believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and be borned again." Except a man be borned again he will in no wise enter the kingdom. No matter what church you belong to, how good your mother was, how good your father, how good your wife or husband, except a man, singular, individual, be borned again, he will in no wise enter into the kingdom. That's it. I hope that never leaves Shreveport, that lays here till Jesus comes, that a man must, not ought to, but must be borned again.


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