<TITLE>10. Par 39-42</TITLE>L-39 Christ declared Hisself to every nation, and through every generation. He's doing it today. The church nominal sets asleep. The church spiritual is awake. The sleeping virgin has went off to sleep, that'll take the tribulation period. But the one that had oil in her lamp is ready. Blessed be the Name of the Lord.
How I love that parable of the virgin. You know the old coal oil lamps we used to have. I used... We never had lights till just recently. And looky here. The oil's in the bottom of the lamp. And there's a wick that draws it up. Now, that wick has to be a special made piece of material. And the fire comes on the end of the wick.
And now notice, you couldn't put a pipe down in there and it would draw it up; it won't come through iron made, man-made things. It only comes through God's provided way. And the wick is faith. And the only thing that can pull the Holy Spirit into a--a Light is the Holy Ghost Itself. And when you got your faith, one end of it on fire for the glory of God and the other dipped into God's Holy Ghost oil, there's going to be a shining Light just as certain as I'm standing in this pulpit. That's right.
But what if you got it down in oil mixed with water? You know what it'll do? It'll sputter. That's what's the matter with the lamps today of many. They're sputtering. It makes carbon over the top of it, and you have to rise and trim your lamps. And if there ever was a time that lamps ought to be trimmed, is right now. "Hasten, go hither; for I can do nothing till you come thither."

L-40 Now, if we see that the judgment of God is so close at hand... And remember, at the judgment bar when I stand before you, and you see that these things that I have said... You don't have to wait till then. Hour by hour, night by night, Jesus Christ appears here in every form that He did, outside of his corporal body when He walked on earth. He reveals the secrets of the heart. He come down the other night before five hundred people right here, just exactly the way it did on the day of Pentecost.
When a roar started from the skies, and everybody started looking, here it come like a great thunder, struck up here on the platform, and roared out over the building, not a wind blowing, but like a rushing wind. What did we do? Instead of our hearts being afire to set around the town, we said, "It was pretty good, yeah, no doubt in my mind about it." Oh, rise, trim your lamps. You got too much oil mixed up with your spirit, or too much water. It'll make carbon, and your lights will go out and smoke your lamp chimney up. You won't be able to see the Kingdom of God when it's at hand. We're at the end now, rise and trim your lamp, and let's be going.

L-41 Do you believe it? You believe? Remember, before this world meets its great disaster, that's predicted in the Scriptures that it will come, God in His mercy shall take His church out of it, because the church will not be here to strike one speck of the tribulation.

L-42 Notice, Noah... Lot came out of something that would destroy him. Noah went into something that kept him. What it together then, put it together. We come out of the world, which we will be destroyed with it, and go into Christ, is the only thing that can keep us. Noah went in, Lot came out. He came out of the world, came out of Sodom. And Noah went into the ark that floated above the judgments.
And the only thing, brother, not one time in any age, when Christ destroyed a great people, or great things like that, until first He took His elected out of there, for how can Jod--God pour judgment upon a Church that He's already pronounced to be perfect? We are the body of Christ. If we're dead in Christ we take on Abraham's seed and are heirs according to the promise. How can God judge us when He's already judged us in Christ?


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