<TITLE>16. Par 122-126</TITLE>L-122 The Word is like a seed. Now, you take a seed. You people here on the west coast, you're great agriculturists. Now, you take your orange tree. Now, you take your orange tree when you first get it, it's a seed. You put it in the ground, and that seed will produce an orange tree. Sure. Now, that's the way it is. Now, this orange tree, the only thing you do with that, when it's just about as high as your--one inch high. I don't know how many bushels of oranges a tree would produce in its lifetime. Let's say, for instance, five hundred bushels. Now, that may be over or under; I do not know; but say five hundred bushels. Did you know that every orange that'll ever be in that tree is in it when it's just about one inch tall? Did you know that? Sure, it is. Where? It come from the seed.
Now, the only thing it is, it's just planted out, set out. And it has to draw, it sucks water from the earth to get nourishment. And it sucks water from the earth, and it has to drink more than its portion. And every time... 'Cause it has to push out. And when it drinks in water, it pushes out limbs; drinks in more water, pushes out leaves; drinks in more water, pushes out blossoms; drinks in more water, pushes out at--a oranges. It just keeps drinking and pushing out. But it has to drink.

L-124 That's the way a believer is; he's set right in the middle of the Word of God. Amen. And if he has any need for anything, he just drinks and pushes out, drinks and pushes out. When a man is filled with the Holy Ghost, everything that he'll ever use in his life's journey is in him right then. Yes, sir. The only thing we have to do is drink, and drink, and drink, and drink, and drink till we get it. We are planted in Christ Jesus. And to my interpretation of Him, He is the inexhaustible Fountain of Life. That's exactly what I think He is. And when we're planted in Him, He's inexhaustible. We can draw from Him, goodness, meekness, gentleness, patience, power, healing, any [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] promise that He give, 'cause we're planted in the Seed of His Word. And It will produce just exactly what God said It would produce. It's a Seed, the Word.

L-125 God is in His Word. We believe that, don't we? All of us believe it. You see God answering. Way years ago, when He told them to go up, Pentecost, they'd receive the Holy Ghost... Years before that in Isaiah, He said, "Precept must be upon precept, line upon line, here a little, there a little. Hold fast to that what's good. Stammering lips and other tongues will I speak to this people, and this is the rest." See, He told it way before, then His Word come right over and was made manifest. All, the promised Messiah from the garden of Eden, "the Seed should bruise the serpent's head," so forth, come to pass. God is in His Word.

L-126 Now, God's in His universe, say "amen" if you believe it. [Congregation says, "Amen"--Ed.] God is in His Word. You believe it, say "amen." ["Amen"--Ed.]
Now, God in His Son... Now, God was in His Son. "God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself." That's what the Scripture said. He, God come down and lived in a body borned to the virgin Mary, and God manifested Himself through Christ to show what His--His attributes was, to show that He loved, to show that His patience, to show His power, to show and to manifest Himself. God lived in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself.


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