<TITLE>22. Par 70-72</TITLE>L-70 How can you do it just with the letter alone? The letter won't do it alone, until the Word falls into a ground to produce the life that's in the Word. How... You hold a grain of wheat ever so dearly in your hand, you'll never get a beard of wheat off of it until you put it in the ground and it rots and brings forth another life. And except you die out to yourself, and your own ideas, and your own theologies, and just lay down in Christ, and be baptized in the Holy Spirit, rise with the Word in your heart... And if anything seems to come to you that's contrary to the Word, don't believe it. That's right. No matter what you're setup is.
That's exactly the way the Jews failed to see Him to be the Son of God in the first place. They had in all the picture drawed up, how the Messiah would do, how He would come to the temple, and where He would set, and all about it. But when Jesus come He was contrary to it. Every way that they thought He was coming, He was contrary to it. And that's the reason they said, "Oh, that's not the way we been taught."
But God don't have to do things the way you been taught. He does it the way He says He will in the Bible. That's right. Yeah. Them prophets in our Scripture lesson tonight, they'd been taught something too. But the Bible had said something else, and Micaiah stayed with the Bible.

L-71 Now, my contentions is this: Don't--don't never, never accept anything, 'less it comes out of the Bible. See? This is the Blueprint. Let it be set in order and in the Bible. And God's the omnipotent One, the omnipresent, the infinite God Who knows all things, and has predicted that in these last days these signs would take place. The things that He did would be done again before the coming of the Lord.
He said there would be false things rise up, and they... How we going to "diviate" them? Now, there's a good question. How are we going to differentiate from--from one to the other. We see things out here going on, say, "Yeah, just look over here. Looky here at this. Look at this here. See right down. Look over here. That's right." Oh, yes, brother. I'll admit that. But tell me one time that the true Word of God ever failed. You got a bunch of fantastics. So was those priests. Do you understand what I'm meaning? Those preachers, prophets with them horns butting around, "Oh, THUS SAITH THE LORD, THUS SAITH THE LORD." But it didn't cope with the Scripture. See? But when it's absolutely coping with the Scripture, it has to come to pass.

L-72 And the hour is here, brother, when... "As Jambres and Jannes withstood Moses, so will they, men of reprobate mind, concerning the truth, who was foreordained of old to this condemnation," says the Bible. They could not believe. And they will not believe. The Bible said that in this day that we're living now, that men from old was ordained to be condemned, who turned the grace of our God into lasciviousness. Do you see what I mean? Jude 4th chapter, or 4th verse. Read and see if that isn't so.
Now, men of old foreordained to this con... How can they believe when the Bible has done said they can't believe? How can we stop all that nonsense that's going on around in the land? How can we do it when God said it would be? Well, then you say, "Which is right and wrong?" Like Micaiah was, with the Bible. A true Spirit of God will move right with the Word, for He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.


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