<TITLE>21. Par 184-192</TITLE>L-184 And they took the water of separation and sprinkled it upon the wayfaring man, and separated him from his sin. And then he walked under these seven stripes of blood, and had fellowship with the rest the believers in the Presence of God.

L-185 There's only one way to do it. Not shaking hands, not joining church, not by baptisms, not by emotions; but walk up to the waters of separation, lay your hands, by faith, upon the head of Jesus, and say, "I'm a sinner, and You died in my place. And Something in me tells me that You'll forgive me of my sins, and I accept You as my personal Saviour now." Walk beneath the Blood, yonder, have fellowship with the children of God. That's it. Eat the bread, drink the wine, and have the fellowship with the church.

L-186   Oh, isn't He wonderful? Isn't He good? Now, this may seem strange to you, friend. But what--what do I stand here and say these things for? Would I say them to try to make myself different from somebody else? If I do, then I need to repent. I'm saying It because God said It, because It's God's Word. And listen. There's coming a time, and now is, that when people are going from the east to the west, trying to find the Word of God, and can't find It.

L-187 When you go into a meeting, the first thing you do, you go in there and have a bunch of tongues and interpretations, and somebody raise up and keep quoting the Scripture; and that's carnal. Absolutely. God said for us "not to use vain repetitions," what about Him? If He's wrote It once, you believe It. He don't have to say It again. Tongues and interpretations is right, but it's to be a direct message to the church and to somebody, not just carnal and things like that. And then you get ahead in all these other things.

L-188   Here the other day, two men walked into... and a man and a wife, and another man and a wife, just young married, walked into a place, to go to Africa as missionary. Somebody stood up and give a prophecy, and gave tongues and interpretations, that, "They had each other's wife." That, "It should not be that way. They married the wrong person." And those two people separated and remarried, over again. One man took the other one's wife, the other one, in a leading Pentecostal denomination, and went to Africa as missionaries.

L-189 Brother, when you take your oath, you're duty bound to that oath till death sets you free. Exactly right. Certainly. When you take your oath, it's binding.

L-190   All those, nonsense! And it's got to a place till when you go to the churches, it's either so cold and formal and dry, till the spiritual thermometer will go fifty below zero. The people set just like a wart on a pickle, just as sour and indifferent and puckered up. And if you hear somebody, way back there in the corner, might grunt out a little "amen," once in a while, like it hurts them, all of them will stretch their neck like geese, to look around, see what took place. You know that's the truth. I'm not saying that for a joke. This is no place to joke. That's the Truth. Right. I'm saying it because it's the Gospel Truth.

L-191   And the other side, you get a bunch of nonsense of a bunch of fleshly emotions carrying on, and the true Word of God finally has got to a place to where you can seldom hear It: the old middle-of-the-road, the Gospel, the Light to my path, hallelujah, the Blood of the Lamb, the love of God that separates us from the things of the world.

L-192   "Have you spoke in tongues, brother? You haven't got It. Did you shout till the cold feeling went up your back? Did you see balls of fire?" Oh, nonsense! No such a thing.


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