<TITLE>02. Par 5-8</TITLE>L-5 And may I stop here just a moment to say this; and I'll go on record, because the recorders are going: That any Divine promise in God's Word, if you take the right mental attitude towards any of God's Divine promises, will bring it to pass, regardless of what it is. If God promised it, and you show the right mental attitude, God will fulfill His promise to you. That promise is good to anyone who will look at it in that respect.
If I'd write you a letter, you might appreciate that, because in it, it would be something that's showing our friendship. But then your neighbor might read that letter, and they wouldn't get nothing out of it, because it's not to them.
But that's not right in the reading of the Word of God; it's to all of us, "whosoever will." My letter would run out when you finished your life. But men down through the ages has read God's eternal Word, and It's inspired them all through every age. Just as true, just as thrilling tonight, as It was the very hour that the scribe Matthew wrote It... And then you can see why, no matter how little the Scripture is, how small, it's the context that's in it. It's something that's inspired.

L-6 Here not long ago a little friend in the city of Louisville, he was playing around up in the attic, or garret as you might want to call it, and he run into some old rubbish that would been laying back and he found a little postage stamp, just about one inch square. And as he looked at this little stamp, the little fellow with ice cream in his mind, he thinks, "I've got a stamp collector friend down the street, I will go sell him that stamp because it's an old one."
He took the stamp, thinking he would get a nickel, and down the street he went to his friend to sell the stamp. And when he arrived he said to his stamp collecting friend, "What will you give me for this stamp?"
The collector, well posted, looked at it, and he said, "I'll give you a dollar for that stamp."

L-7 Oh, the ice cream then went into many cones. Certainly, he sold it quickly for the purchase of one dollar. The stamp collector sold it two weeks later for five hundred dollars. And now the stamp, the last I heard of it, is worth almost three quarters of a million dollars. What, a little stamp, just one inch square. It isn't the paper that meant anything; it's what's wrote on the stamp that means so much.
And the little three word text, it isn't the size of it; neither is it the--the paper that it's written on; it's what it is. It's the Word of the living God. That's what makes it so real. Hear Ye Him.

L-8 God always, in His great feeling towards people, He meets in the counsel of man. God only works through His Church. The Church is God's agency. He said one place in the Gospel, "I am the Vine, ye are the branches." The vine does not bear fruit; it purges the branch, and the branch bears fruit. So the Church is the Branch that the Holy Spirit is working through. He speaks through the pastor's lips. He works through his hands. And through Divine gifts He sets His body into emotions, led by the Holy Spirit by emptying himself out and letting the Holy Spirit take control. He brings messages; he sees visions. And great things, no matter what it might be that God has chosen him to do, if he will yield to the Spirit, God will work through him, or any member of His Church.


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