<TITLE>08. Par 53-60</TITLE>L-53 No wonder we can't have healing campaigns. No wonder the churches are tore up. No wonder one will say, "Oh, this, that, and the other," so disagreed. No wonder that there's such isms among us, is because we can't bear the real fruits of patience, long-suffering, goodness, meekness, gentleness. The Lifeline has been cut off from the tree, and we'll never bring it up through the creeds of some rag or any other substituted bark. It'll take the power of Almighty God to grow that tree back to its condition again.
Did not Jesus say, and the Scriptures has said, "Have eyes and can't see, have ears and can't hear"? They just can't do it. And no man can come to God, or to Christ, until God reveals it to him.

L-55 The other day I was talking, and we were thinking of Scripture. I said, "Why can't people see that?" I said, "There it is," and I happened to think. I don't care how clear it is, how much the Scripture teaches it, you'll never be able to see it until God Himself shows it to you. I don't care how clear it is. And the whole Bible is built, and the whole Church of the living God is built upon a spiritual revelation of the Word. Why did Abel offer a more excellent sacrifice than Cain? Why didn't Abel follow Cain? He had the most beautiful church? But it was revealed to him.

L-56 When Jesus came from Mount Transfiguration, and they... Said, "Who does man say I the Son of man am?"
"One said 'Elias,' and one said You're the prophet, and so forth."
He said, "But who do you say I am?"
Peter said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God."
He said, "Blessed art thou, Simon, the son of Jonas, for flesh and blood never revealed this to you. You never learned it with some books, or by some seminary, or some station of man-made scheme. But My Father in heaven has revealed that to you, and upon this rock I'll build My Church, and the gates of hell cannot prevail against it." There you are: spiritual revelation of the Word of God.

L-59 In Matthew 11, I believe it is, or 12, somewhere in along there, it is written, that said, "Though Jesus had done so many miracles, so many signs that He was the Messiah, yet the people could not believe it. Because Isaiah said, 'They got eyes and they can't see, they got ears and they can't hear.'" How, though they were scholars, though they were top religionists, they were holy, and without fault, and without blame... If they were found one iota wrong, they were stoned without mercy. No man could lay a finger on them. They studied the Scriptures day and night, generation after generation, and still God had blinded their eyes.
Say, "God did?" That's what He said.

L-60 God does what He wants to. We cannot tell Him what to do. Did not Paul in the Book of the Romans the 8th chapter, say that God raised up Pharaoh and hardened his heart, blinded his eyes, for this same purpose, that His will might be worked? Was not Esau and Jacob, Esau, refused? Before the boy was ever born, God despised him. You see, it's all working according to God's great predestination. He's not One that's asleep. He knows exactly.
And we judge men according to their (seem like) their honesty or their sincerity. We judge churches according to their progress. We join... We take evangelists, because that they're great. That isn't it.
"Heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word shall never pass away."
What the palmerworm has left, has the caterpillar eaten. There's something wrong somewhere, 'cause God's Word is just as eternal as He's eternal. And God's Word can no more fail than God can fail, Himself.


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