<TITLE>15. Par 70-73</TITLE>L-70 And one day when he was up on the housetop he heard a voice that said, "Don't you call that what I made clean, unclean." God, I wished He would take a bunch of preachers in this valley here and let them know that we're not crazy. We're not holy-rollers, a bunch of trash. It's a Spirit of the living God. And men and women are drunk on His goodness. It's not witchcraft or mental telepathy. It's a Spirit of the living God. Turn loose of your traditions, elders, and listen to the voice of the living God. It'll change you.
You won't become one of the persecutors. You'll want to be one of them if you can pass the barriers of all your doctrines, until you can float into His Presence yonder. Something will take place. You won't believe the days of miracles is past. You'll believe that they're right here, because one would be performed on you. Sure. To change of man, that's what the voice of God always does, it changes men and women and makes them what they should be, not what the schools and the teachers has made, but what God has patterned them for. The voice speaking, I heard a voice.

L-71 Oh, I would like to go into personal experiences. And how that you would love to go to personal testimonies, many of you men and women who has heard His voice. I can remember hearing it when I was just a little boy way down in the mountains of Kentucky, and I thought it was a bird setting in a tree, but the bird flew away. He said, "Don't fear, 'cause you're going to leave from here someday and live near a city called New Albany."
I heard His voice when He said, "Don't smoke or drink or defile your body with women and so forth; there's a work for you to do when you get older."
Oh, He's still the same Lord God. And you hear Him hour after hour speaking to you in your teeny little closet in your prayer room, come out before the audiences then speak visible to the people: the voice of God. It was precious in the days of Samuel. It's more precious today, for there was no open vision.
Peter heard the voice. And it changed all of his theology. He went right straight to the Gentiles who he thought to be a bunch of illiterate offcast. But the voice of God, not his teaching, the voice of the living God changed him.

L-72 And now just one more. There was a good man one time in the Bible, a personal acquaintance with Jesus, who loved Him and believed in Him, and worshiped Him, and played with Him, and went into the hills with Him, and down to the river fishing with Him. He was a good man.
One day while Jesus was gone, death come stealing into his room. And he'd left the old orthodox church, him and his lovely sisters, Martha and Mary. And they'd come out because they loved Him, and believed Him to be the Messiah. And by doing so, the church had quickly excommunicated them.
And this young man got so sick until he died, and had been buried four days. What good would theological teachings do then? What good to his church do then? But there was a voice of God on earth, and He spoke to Lazarus. And Lazarus, a man who was dead and corrupted in the grave, heard His voice, and come out, and lived again.

L-73 I was dead once in sin and trespasses. You were dead in sin and trespasses, but it was the voice of God that said, "Come unto Me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, I'll give you rest."
I've seen the voice speak to the cripple, straighten him up. I've seen the voice of God speak to the blind and his eyes come open. To the dying, cancer ridden, to the leper, and see them return back in flesh in the perfect health again. I've seen Him speak to the alcoholics, and neurotics, and the offcast, and the skid row bunch, and they become ladies and gentleman and saints of the living God because the voice of God spoke.


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