<TITLE>22. Par 157-162</TITLE>L-157 Now, these lampstands, the fire that was on these lampstands in the Old Testament... When they lit one lamp, they could not light the next lamp with the same fire they had in their hand. They lit one lamp, then picked it up and lit the other lamp; then set it down, and lit this lamp; and then took and lit this lamp with the same fire that they started at the beginning. Oh, I hope it don't go over your head, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever," the same Fire, Holy Ghost, lit every one of those churches right down through the ages.

L-158 Didn't Jesus say in Saint John 15, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches"? Now, He is the main Vine; we are the branches. Now, the vine does not bear fruit...
[Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... that you can take a citrus tree, like an orange, and you can take a--a limb off of a--off of a, well, I'd say, a grapefruit tree, and split a little place in the orange tree and put that grapefruit in it; it'll grow. You go over here and take a lemon limb and put it in a orange tree; it'll grow. Or take a pomegranate, and take it, or any citrus fruit, tangerine, or tangelo, any of those citrus fruits, and put them into this tree, and it'll thrive off the life of that orange tree; but it will not bear oranges. It'll bear grapefruits; it'll bear tangelos; it'll bear lemons; but it's thriving off of the life of the real vine. But if that vine ever puts forth another vine--another branch, it'll be of the same life that's in it; it'll bear a orange. Because at the beginning in the root of it is a orange tree life, but others can live off of it as long as it's a nature of citrus fruit. But it can't bear the fruit of the original, because it's not of the original.

L-160 That's the way the church is. They have split the Vine and grafted in Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, and so forth like that. It's bearing Baptist fruit, Presbyterian fruit, Methodist fruit, but if it ever--that tree ever brings forth another vine, it'll be the same kind of a vine it brought on the day of Pentecost: the original Vine. It'll speak in tongues and have power and the signs of the resurrected Christ in it. Why? 'Cause it's thriving of the natural resource that it's planted in. Actually, it's not planted in it; it's borned in it. Glory. Oh, my. Didn't think of that one right then.
See, these others are grafted in; they graft them into the tree, so they bear their own kind of fruit. They can't take this. They don't believe in that, because they never knowed nothing about it. But if they're borned in that same life that come out of that tree, that's the only thing they can bear, is the life of the original stem.

L-162 These lamp stems all fit into one great big bowl, one great big holder, and nine different--or seven different lampholders come out of it. And when they did, each one of those lights was drawing from the main resource of its life. And its light was because it had its candle dipped down into this main barrel. Oh, what a beautiful picture of one of those seven stars that represented that, with his life on fire with the Holy Ghost here. And he... By faith he's burning with the Holy Ghost, and his life is a candle--or not a candle, but a wick that's dipped into the Holy Spirit (into Christ), and through that wick he's drawing the Life of God out to give Light to his church. Oh, what a picture of the true believer. What kind of a Light's he giving? The same kind of Light that was when the first candle was lit.
When the first church age started, it was Ephesus. Paul, the angel of that church, one of the stars... There's seven stars which means seven angels, seven messengers. This week I can take the Scripture and the history and prove to you each one of those are true in each angel, and every angel had the same Light. That's right. Then right between these ages, that great One to come.


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