<TITLE>02. Par 6-8</TITLE>L-6 You know I think some of the best meetings we ever have is in churches. Now, I like... Sometimes the meetings, you know, get to a place where we... Crowds are great; we can't get into the little churches, and so forth, or the big churches. But there's something about a church house... I hope you won't think that I've went off on some tantrum since I seen you last. But you know, I believe that a place, a church, is where God stays. Angels dwell among the churches. It's a place that's dedicated to service of God.
Out in these auditoriums and things we find they have parties, dances, drinking, and everything. And you feel the--the spirit that don't seem right. It just seems like it's a... And otherwise, the Holy Spirit always seems to work so much different when you're in a church, you know, somewhere, especially in a good Spirit-filled church, where the people are filled with the Holy Spirit and great signs and wonders take place... And people who believe these things to be true...
The people are the church. The "church" as a word means "called out." It's a body of people that's called out of the world to walk with God. That is the Church. I'm so glad to be one of those tonight. If I had a hundred lives to live, and there was no hereafter after I died, I'd still want to live every one of them for Jesus Christ. I... It means that to me.

L-7 Brother Jack was showing me the advertisement... I stopped with his church last night, coming down, a very fine spiritual church at Shreveport, Louisiana. And he was showing me a picture that he'd put in the paper when I was there several years ago: quite a change. A person wouldn't know it was the same person. But somehow another in this human body that... We get old and rot. That's all. But our spirits remain the same and cannot die.
I said last night at Brother Jack's church, I said, "If we could understand, this is my hand, this is my finger, this is my ear, this is my nose, this is my eyes. But who's me? Who's me that owns this? This is not me. This is something that I own." See, you're spirit. You never did see me. You see what's mine that declares me, but you never seen me.
Like the Bible said, "No man has seen God at any time, but the only begotten of the Father has declared Him." God was in Christ reconciling the World to Himself. They seen what God was 'cause He expressed Himself through Christ, 'cause He had the Fullness of the Godhead bodily. He could express Him. But now...

L-8 And then as we are sons and daughters of God, and joint heirs with Him in the Kingdom, then we express Him in our lives. Sometimes... If--if many of us would just live our sermons instead of preaching it, I think it'd be--be better, if we'd just go ahead and live the sermon. You know it's a lot better to live me one than it is to preach me one, I believe, because I can--I--I can see your life. God looks at our lives, and the world looks at our lives. He wants to know what our lives are.
And people know us. No matter... Our--our action is so loud it drowns our testimony. Depends on what we say. If we are Christians and don't live it, then the people know better. But when we are Christians, and say we're Christians, and live like Christians, our lives will do it if we never said nothing else. Our lives... We're written epistles read of all men. So they watch how you walk.
And I was thinking the other day about being sealed by the Holy Spirit. A seal is marked on both sides. They see you coming and see you going. Look like a Christian coming, you look like a Christian going so, when you're sealed by the Holy Spirit.


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