<TITLE>02. Par 9-18</TITLE>L-9 And, but the Lord has really... We stood there and watched it, ourselves, with our own eyes. Watch it moving, and seen it leave, with our own eyes. So, we're so grateful for that.

L-10   And now, pray now for us, this week, while we're gone. And Brother Neville will probably take up where I left off, for the Wednesday night service. Don't miss it now, in this great chain of the Book of the Revelation.

L-11 I know much prayer has been offered, and we--we know that God hears prayer. But we, this morning, we want to offer just a little prayer before the reading of the Book. Now, any person that's able, can read the Book this way, or can open it this way. But it takes God, alone, to open the understanding, for He's the only One who can do it.
So let us bow our heads just a moment.

L-12 Now, Father, in the Name of Thy beloved Son, the Lord Jesus, we most humbly come now to submit ourselves, as Thy servants, that You would speak through us. Circumcise the lips that speak and the ears that hear, that the Word might be spoke by God and heard by the Spirit, in the people. Grant it, Father. May He take the Word of God and minister to us just as we have need, for we ask it in His Name and for His glory. Amen.

L-13   Now, reading this morning, we're studying. We're not--not preaching; just studying this Book of Hebrews. How many is enjoying it? Oh, we're having a wonderful time! And now just studying close, Scripture upon Scripture. It must... The whole, entire Bible ties together. There's not one Word out of Its place, if It be placed together by the Holy Spirit.

L-14 Now, man has said, "The Bible contradicts Itself." I want to see it. I've asked, twenty-five years, for that, and no one has ever showed it yet. The Bible does not contradict. If it is, it isn't the Bible. The great, infinite Jehovah could not contradict His own Self, so there's no contradiction in the Bible. It's just the misunderstandings of peoples.

L-15   Now for a little background, till we go back. Now, the Book of Hebrews was written by Saint Paul, to the Hebrews. He wrote one to the Ephesians, that was the people at Ephesus, the Christian Church; one to the Romans at Rome; and one to the Galatians; and one to the Hebrews.

L-16 Now, we notice that Paul, being a Bible teacher, to begin with. That's what we learned. That he set under the great teacher, one of the greatest of his days, Gamaliel. And he was well versed in the Old Testament. He knew it well. But became a persecutor of the way that was Christ's Way, because he had been trained in the Old Testament under teachers. But the teachers, usually carnal... I hope I don't say anything wrong.

L-17 But, usually, if a man has just the teaching and the way of the schools, it's usually man-made. See, it isn't inspired, because it becomes a doctrine of a school. We have it today. Presbyterian, Lutheran, Pentecostal, all these schools have their theory, and they just wind the Scriptures into this.

L-18   And it was the same in the Old Testament. But, Paul, being well trained, and knew the Scriptures by the word. But, you see, the Scriptures, no matter how well you know them, if the Spirit doesn't quicken them, then the letter killeth. The Spirit giveth Life. See, it must be quickened, or made alive, by the Spirit. If the Spirit doesn't liven the Word and make It a reality to you, then the letter is just intellectual. That's where we have so many confessed Christians today, or professed Christians, is that intellectual conception of Christ.


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