<TITLE>10. Par 78-86</TITLE>L-78 Then if I can show you by God's Word what the Seal of the living God is, then you'll know. The Bible said, in Ephesians 4:30 once, many places throughout the Scripture, that the Holy Spirit is the Seal of God. Then without the Holy Spirit, you're marked off the other side; no matter how intellectual, how many of the denominations that you belong to, how pious and religious you are, Satan was the same thing. Satan's not some big brute with a forked tail and forked hoofs; he's a spirit, and the Bible said, so cunning that he would deceive the very elected if possible. He's religious.
Was not Cain just as religious as Abel was? Did not Cain offer an offering just the same as Abel did? Did not Cain build a church unto the Lord the same as Abel did? Did not Cain get down and worship just the same as Abel did? Did not Cain sacrifice just the same as Abel did? But one come by intellectual conception; he brought the flowers and the fruits of the field and made his altar beautiful: intellectual.

L-81 But Abel, by faith, chose a lamb, for it was blood and life that taken it, and he drug him to a rock and hammered his little throat until he bled to death. God said, "That's righteous Abel." That's right. How did It come to him? By revelation, not by intellectual. Through his heart he knew it.
Jesus said, "Upon this rock I'll build My Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against It": spiritual revelation, spiritual conception. "Man looks upon the outside," says the Scripture, "God looks on the heart."

L-83 You are filled with something. You might be filled with doubt. Your poor hearts may be running over with doubt. I hope not. Your hearts may be full of frets and worry. And it might be that your hearts are full of trouble. And it might be that you're full of religion, intellectual, fine perfumed theology, belonging to the great churches that's been in existence for years, setting back just as confidence as you can be. Brother, let me say to you; you might bring members to that church until you get old and die, and you'll never do nothing but build another tower to Babel. Certainly.
You can be full of foolishness; you can be full of nonsense; you can be full of anything; but you can't stay empty. The Bible says you can't.

L-86 The Bible said, "When the unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he walks in dry places, searching rest. And then he comes back with seven other devils more worse than he was, and the last estate of that man is eight times worse than it was at the beginning."
That's what happens to these meetings, when people go forth in revivals and men are just led to an intellectual conception. He goes off and joins some church, and lets it go at that, satisfied. "That's all right. There's nothing to all this other nonsense. We should not have it." The pastor says, "Oh, that's all, that was way back in another age." And the first thing you know, that devil returns back with seven other devils, and he becomes a religious devil. Then he's really filled; then he's got pride and jealousy. And--and he--he's--he's even angry with the very God that wrote the Bible; he looks down there, and say, "'These things that I do, shall you also.' That was for the disciples."


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