<TITLE>08. Par 25-27</TITLE>L-25 Do you see it? Here, that was God in David. That was God in Joseph. That was God in Daniel. It was God within a measure. It was God in a measure. But when He came into Christ, He became in the fulness of His Being. In Him was the Fulness of the Godhead bodily. All the Spirit of God dwells in Him.
It's like this. Now... And as He goes out, one will fuss with the other one. "Did you speak with tongues or did you prophecy? If you..." Now, there's where the people get these gifts all mixed up. You see?
One will say, "Because you don't do this, you haven't got it, or you don't do this, you haven't got it." Now, you're wrong on that. God is like a great diamond. Listen, so you can really understand this. God is like a great diamond. And each diamond has a chip of a diamond has chip places, this big master diamond. And lay it in the light, great rays of light shines off from it.
And those are God's messengers, gifts. All of it comes back to the selfsame God. The gift of healing, the gift of preaching, the gift of prophesying, all the spiritual gifts of the body are just rays or reflections off of the selfsame God.

L-26 See the big diamond? For to one is given knowledge, to another, wisdom, to another, gifts of healing, to another one, gifts of prophecy, but all by the selfsame Spirit, the great diamond. And the big rays of light that we see shoot this way and shoot that way, all declare one thing: there is a God that lives and reigns. Amen.
And as long as you see those things in operation, know that God still is the same yesterday, today, and forever. If I could go out... I used to preach at the Baptist church at Milltown, Indiana, and I'd come home at night. There used to be an old nightingale set out there, and he would--he would sing.
And I noticed on a stormy night, he didn't sing as much as he did on a moonlight night. So I begin to study of the nightingale, and I come to find out that he looks up towards the heavens, and he watches. And as long as he can see a star, he sings, because he knows somewhere the sun is shining. Oh, my, what a lesson we could learn by that.
And as long as you can see the Spirit of God operating through one of these little rays of light, there's a God that still lives and reigns. The nightingale would throw his head up and sing to the top of his voice when he could see one star, 'cause he has to watch the star to sing by. And no wonder then, it brings us joy. Oh, it's a--a well bubbling up.

L-27 When I was game warden in Indiana, I used to go to a certain place and drink. It was a--a spring, just bubbled all the time. I thought it was the happiest spring I ever seen in my life. It was constantly bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble.
So one day I set down by the side of that spring, and I said, "I would like to speak to you, Mr. Spring. Every time that I come by here, you're so happy, jumping, bubbling, carrying on the way you do." I said, "Maybe it's because that the--the animal, the deer comes by and drinks from you what makes you happy."
No, if he could talk, he'd say, "No."
I said, "Well, maybe it's because, perhaps, some other animal would drink."
"No, that isn't why I'm bubbling."
Well, I say then, "Maybe it's because if you just bubble when I come by and you--that's what makes you bubble because I drink from you."
He would say, "No, that isn't why."
I'd say, "Well, what makes you bubble, Mr. Spring?"
If he could speak back to me, he'd say, "Now, Mr. Branham, it isn't me bubbling, it's something behind me pushing me and making me bubble."
So I think that's the way it is with the church that's borned again of the Spirit of God. It isn't so much of the bubbling; it's something in there making it bubble, bubbling up to Everlasting Life, fountain of a water of Life, freshly, coming every day from the inexhaustible Fountain of life, which is Christ Jesus, Who we're planted in Him through the baptism of the Spirit. Amen.


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