<TITLE>20. Par 71-75</TITLE>L-71 Now, ministering brethren, I want you all to believe with all your heart. I want you to have faith, and look--look at those people. Now, is God a Father? How many believes that God is our Father? It's the Father of Jesus Christ; He's our Father. We are adopted children. Now, He is the Dove.
How many believes, that by the grace of God, you're His lamb? Raise up your hands. Fine. All right. Now, let's let Him lead us. Now, I'll--I want to see in the audience, someone so that you'll see it's not only the people here in the line, that's just--that's...
You know why we give prayer cards? It's so that the people won't rush over. See? There's--there's probably two or three more hundred people, or four, here wants to be prayed for. And if you have discernment, and brother, they--it's a jumping over one another in disorder. This--this is--is an arena. But it isn't tonight; it's a church tonight; the church of God is setting in here. So we want everything just in order. You let it get out of order, and watch how quick the Holy Spirit takes a flight. Oh, It's timid.

L-72 You let someone start disbelieving; just watch how It leaves me, just--just as quick as It can. It won't--It just won't stay around where there's unbelief. It just won't do it. Very, very timid. That's the reason, my brother, my precious sisters, God bless your heart. Me speaking about women wearing, I... That isn't you. That's these modern that do the way they do. But look, I'm just trying to warn you, for your children coming on, and things. And--and watch every step; don't you do that.
Last night, I seen up in this side, and that side, teen-age girls, young ladies, going back now for salvation. How, I appreciate that. My, right at that crossroads of life. How gracious it is, God would do that for us.

L-73 Now, is--did all of them get in? Is all the fifty there? There is somebody, somewhere, trying to have some faith out there, somewhere. It just... I... There's no need. If I told you I could explain this, you cannot. How many knows that? You can't explain God? That's the reason all of our trying and superstitions...

L-74 In the garden of Eden there was two trees. How many knows that? One of them was the Tree of Life, and the other one was the tree of knowledge. And when man left the Tree of Life to eat the tree of knowledge, he always destroys himself, separates himself from God. So you'll never know God by knowledge; you've got to know Him by faith, just to believe it. It doesn't come by knowledge; it's faith. See?
So every time we bite here... They bit off... First bite separated his fellowship from his Maker. Then he bit off gun powder, kills his--his comrade, his friend. Next thing, he bit off an automobile: kills more than all the gun powder. Now, he's bit himself off an atomic bomb; I wonder what he's going to do with that? See?

L-75 God never destroys nothing. Man, by knowledge, destroys himself. Remember that. God doesn't destroy nothing. God's eternal; He doesn't destroy nothing. But man, by his knowledge, destroys himself. When we get to a place, you say, "Well, now, there's no such thing as the Holy Ghost; Divine healing's wrong." Just remember, you're destroyed by your own ignorance. You think it's knowledge, but it's ignorance. So you--you destroyed yourself; you sent your soul plumb away from God by doing that. See? Why, don't you just throw down your own thoughts and say, "Oh, Dove of God, come lead me." See? Watch where He brings you: right straight back to His Word. "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word proceedeth out of the mouth of God."


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