<TITLE>07. Par 22-25</TITLE>L-22 Now, listen, "They all did eat the same spiritual manna." Think of it: spiritual Manna. "Oh," you say, "I know I'm saved. Hallelujah. I shouted in the spirit. I feel this." That doesn't have one thing to do with it. You see how we base our eternal destination upon a sensation? Can you see in this day that we're now living, how the people are basing their--their destination upon just a little sensation? Oh, say, "I know I got it, because I--I felt the power go through me. I did this." That might be all exactly the truth and you're still lost.

L-23 Oh, if we just had a moment. Let's just turn to 1 Corinthians 13 here just a moment and listen what Paul's got to say about it right here.
 Though I speak with tongues of men and angels, and have not charity... (which is love)... I am become as a sounding brass, and an a tinkling cymbal.
 ... though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all the mysteries, and know all the knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could move mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
Listen to that stern old apostle drive it into this sensational church who's basing their hopes upon sensation. Now, this is Sunday school. This is a place of correction. This is a place of teaching. And woe unto the man that'll stand in the pulpit and mislead. Brother, it's time that we've made Scripture compare with Scripture. That's right.

L-24  And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,... though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it prevaileth me nothing.
See, all your good works, all your good deeds, all the spiritual things you have, all the gifts you have, all the sensations you have, all the joy you have, all the peace you have has nothing at all to do with it to begin with. Think of that just a moment. And think of the churches today. Our great churches, Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, and denominational, they think because they say "I believe," come in, put their name on the book, that settles it. How far they're off.
Our Pentecostal people think, well, because that they got a little sensation, they felt good, they spoke with tongues, they got a little blood in their hands, a little oil on their face or something, "We got it." Oh, ten million miles off. You get it? See how the devil, the god of this world has blinded the eyes of those? And they just go right on living like that.
Listen.
 For though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body... burned, and have not charity, I am nothing.
Look at all those gifts, all those good things. "I feed the poor, I've got a good heart about me. I do this. I do that. I go to church. I speak with tongues. I prophesy. I heal the sick. I preach the Gospel. I do these things." Paul said, "Still I am nothing." All those things can be carnally impersonated. Now, what does he say?
 Charity suffereth long,... is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself,... not puffed up,
 Does not misbehave itself unseemly, (just think)... not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
Charity; love. What is love? Is God. How does God come to you? By birth. See?

L-25 Now, they all was baptized unto Moses. They all did eat of the communion. They all had the same spiritual Manna that come from God. Every one of them eat the same thing. And today we stand right around, and hear the Word, and rejoice over it, and take the Manna and eat it and say, "Oh, hallelujah, that's good. Oh, I appreciate that. Yes, I was baptized in the church. I--I take and make my profession. I put my name on the book. I'm a charter member." All that is perfectly in vain if there isn't something that God has done. If it is... Them's the things that you did; that's the things that your faith produced. But unless God has done something to you to new birth...


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