<TITLE>04. Par 16-21</TITLE>L-16 How could you ever take a people like that that's never been in contact with the Male, which is Christ, and teach to them Divine healing? Why, they've never been in contact with anything; they don't know anything about It. How can you teach them the baptism of the Holy Ghost?
What happens to them eggs? They lay right in the nest and rot. No matter what you do to them, they'll rot, because they're not fertile.
And any church that's not fertile, that is from the fertility of the coming of the Holy Spirit into the human heart, no matter how good a church it is, how well the members dress, how educated the pastor is, how finer songs you got, what a fine building you got; if Christ isn't there, the Spirit of God isn't there, you got nothing but the same infertile bunch of eggs. That's exactly. And you'll never get anywhere with them.
What we need tonight is a Holy Spirit back in the church, moving in every member, setting it in order.

L-17 Now, Lot was backslid. But God came down to Abraham and performed a mighty miracle. And then when He performed this miracle, Abraham called Him Elohim, the great mighty Jehovah. But He was a Man setting there eating, drinking, talking, a Stranger. And remember, being a Stranger, He yet asked, "Where is Sarah thy wife?"
Same Spirit came in the body of Jesus Christ and said, "Thou art Simon. You--your father is Jonas." "I saw thee when thou was under the fig tree," to Philip. "Go get your husband and come here."
"I have no husband."
"Thou has said well, for you have five husbands, and the one you are now living with is not your husband." That same Spirit of God. And we find out that Jesus, picking that up.

L-18 Now, you know, the Bible is wrote on pages. But yet, you have to have the Spirit of God to understand the Scripture. It's a love letter to the believer. A man can get down and set it...

L-19 No wonder they say that... "Aw, the... it contradicts itself." I've offered any price that I can pay for anyone who can show me a contradiction in the Bible. Not there. No, sir. If there's anything you're contradicting in your own heart and mind. God doesn't contradict Himself, not one place. It can be straightened with the Word of God if it's put together. But It's all confused to you because, Jesus thanked the Father that He'd hid this from the eyes of the wise and prudent, and revealed it to babes such as would learn.

L-20 When I go overseas... I got a lovely wife. And I tell her now, "Good bye, sweetheart, you pray for me now." She prays for me. When I'm overseas, and am well, gone for months, and I pick up a letter, she'll say, "Dear Billy, I am setting here tonight with the children, thinking much of you..." Now, I see what she's writing on the paper, but you see, I love her so much till I--I can read between the lines. I know what she's talking about. See?
And that's the way it is with God. You can't just set down and read it in a cold formal heart. You've got to be in love with the Author, and then you can read between the lines. Then you--you have an understanding of the Scriptures.

L-21 Now, Jesus was saying that to those Jews (See?), when He revealed Himself. Then He said--prophesied to the coming of the end of time, where these signs had never been done before the Gentiles, and He said that as it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man. Same thing.
And then if you notice, when He said about Noah, He gave some morals that they were doing: eating, drinking, marrying, giving in marriage and so forth. But in Sodom's time, the great Angel had come and revealed it.
Then we find... We left Abraham returning to his tent, last night after the Angel... or God had left him. The Angels went on, two of them, down into Sodom. And we know what happened down there.


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