<TITLE>06. Par 53-61</TITLE>L-53 The Urim Thummim was the breastplate that Aaron wore on his breast. In there was twelve stones: jasper, sardius, carbuncle, so forth, on down. They got all twelve of the big stones, that was in the breastplate, showing that he was the high priest of every tribe, the twelve tribes of Israel. This breastplate hung on a pillar in the church. And when a prophet prophesied, and they wanted to be sure it was right, or not. The prophets or the dreamers stood before this Urim Thummim, and he told his dream or his vision, whatever he had saw. And if the Sacred Light... Oh, do you see it? God always dwelt in the supernatural realm. The conglomeration, those lights, were just normal until this voice went forth. And when the voice struck those stones, if it wasn't supernatural, she laid dormant. But if it was supernatural, those Lights all reflected the rainbow color together. Amen. Then, that was God speaking, "That is My prophet. That dream came from Me." It was according to the Urim Thummim that they judged.

L-54   Remember Saul when he backslid? He said he couldn't have a dream. And the prophet, Samuel, was dead, and there was no way. He said, "Even the Urim won't even speak to me." Nothing. Saul stood before the Urim, and his words were dead thumps. See? God just refused him. And that Urim Thummim, that was Aaron's vindication of his priesthood. After Aaron going, Moses... The--the plate hung on the pillar.

L-55 Now, the Aaronic priesthood ceased when Jesus died. And now, separated law from grace, we still have a Urim Thummim. And Paul was using It. See? The Urim Thummim today is God's Immortal, Eternal, everlasting Word. See?

L-56 "For whosoever shall take anything out of this Book, or add anything to It." I don't want anything outside of It, but I want all It's got. That's the Church we want. And all things must be proven by the Word.

L-57 That's the reason I took a flop recently of among the Pentecostal people, because, saying, "I could not understand where oil running out of your hands, or blood out of your face, was a sign you had the Holy Ghost." That's not Scriptural and I--I just couldn't take it. It's got to come from the Word.

L-58   And now, Paul, he just loved the Word. So, before he would ever witness this great experience that he had, he went down in Egypt for three year. I believe it was three years, three years down in Egypt. And you know what I believe he done? I believe that he took the Old Testament, and searched through the Old Testament, and found that That was really the absolute Messiah. He had to prove his experience by the Bible. Amen. Oh, my!

L-59 Look at him when he was in prison. You notice, there's a--a space of Paul's life when he was in prison there for a long time. He wrote the Book of Ephesians. He wrote this Hebrew Letter. See? He had time. God laid him away over there in a prison, and he wrote these Letters to the churches. One to the church of Ephesus. He wrote one to the Pentecostal church, had lots of trouble with them. The Pentecostal church he had more trouble with than anybody else. Still has it. But he was thankful for them. The only thing he could teach them... When they come in: one had a tongue, one had a psalm, one had a sensation, one had a feeling. He couldn't talk, speak to them, "Eternal security." He couldn't speak to them, "predestination." He couldn't talk to... They were babies. They all had to--had to feel something, or see something, or have funny feelings, and, or something around them, some evidences.

L-60   But I believe, when he spoke to the Ephesians, he could speak on, "God has predestinated us unto sons and daughters, and adopted us as children in Jesus Christ before the foundation of the world." Look at that. My!

L-61 Watch him come over in the Book of Romans, and so forth. They were grown-up. Oh, they spoke with tongues, sure, and they had other signs of the Holy Spirit among them. But they didn't make doctrines, and sensations, and little quivers, and funny feelings.


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