<TITLE>05. Par 19-23</TITLE>L-19 And you know, every time somebody would come by from up that way, they would tell that to the little queen. "Now, faith cometh by hearing, hearing the Words of God." And you know, when you really begin to speak of the supernatural, and of a God, Who still lives, there's something about it in every man's heart that has any spirituality at all, he longs to see behind that curtain. Every man is it, because inside of him, he's a supernatural being. He's got a--a spirit that motorizes him, that makes him to move, and to talk, and to think, and he is a supernatural being.

L-20 And this little woman, being a queen, she begin to draw up a lot of enthusiasm, for everybody was telling the same thing. That's the way we want to do it: all speak the same, glorifying God. Not one say, "Well, I'm a Baptist; we don't cooperate with such. Oh, I'm a Presbyterian; I'm not Pentecostal." Don't make any difference what it is, what denomination, or what tag they're wearing, if you're a son and daughter of God, you can't keep away from it. That's right.

L-21 I used to do a lot of riding. My father was a rider. I'm not much of a rider, but I've done a lot of ranch work through my life. I used to work on the old Tripod, which I go hunting on now, many times in Colorado. In the springtime, when we'd ride out there with the cattle, they had the drift fence coming down from the Arapaho Forest, and we herded, the--the Hereford Association grazed the Troublesome River valley, that's between Berthoud Pass, and Rabbit Ear Pass, you can catch it on Forty, Troublesome River.
And way up, about twenty-five miles up there, our ranch was at the head of the river. And all the association would drive their cattle up there in the springtime. If you could raise as much as a ton of hay, you could put a cow on the forest. That was the quota from the Chamber of Commerce, and you had to have a brand. And a many a day, I've set there with my... After riding for days getting the cattle up to the drift fence, and watch the ranger standing there as he counted them, and marked them, as they went through.

L-22 And I set there, and I've watched the Diamond T go across. I watched the Lazy R cross, our Tripod, the Turkey Track just below us. And I noticed, setting there with my leg across the horn of the saddle, as they passed that drift fence, the ranger wasn't too much concerned about what kind of a brand they had on them, because they done been checked on that. But he was concerned about what kind of a blood they had in them. Nothing could get in there but a thoroughbred hereford, nothing else. The blood tag is what counted, the last gate.
And I think that's the way it will be at the end of time; God won't look to whether we are oneness, or twoness, or threeness, or fiveness, or what ever we are; it'll be the Blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son. He will look for that Blood sign at the end of the journey. Oh, if we could just be in one accord and respect the Gift that God has given us.

L-23 Then we noticed, also, that after that little faith got built up, and someone else, testifying, some traveler said, "Oh, you should see the great miracle working. You know, I believe that Israel has a true God up there, because all of our idols, they don't speak."
We got a lot of theology, but there's nothing in it. No matter how good the theology is, if it don't speak back. A God of history is no good if He isn't the same today. What good does it do to feed your canary bird all kinds of vitamins to make it have good wings, and then keep it in a cage all the time? It doesn't do any good. What we want to be is free, get out so we can spread our wings, our wings of faith in the power of the resurrected Christ, and soar above this carrying on here on earth.


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