<TITLE>18. Par 168-173</TITLE>L-168 What if every person in this world's a Christian? What if everybody was a--a Spirit-filled Christian? Why, we wouldn't need any faith no more, wouldn't need any faith at all. And faith is the very--is the very thing that we're saved by is faith. And that's the reason there has to be some disagree with it, so that we can exercise faith. Do you understand it now? You've got to have the other side. See? You've got to have a bad woman to make a real one stand out right. See? There's got to be a lie to make the truth positive and make it shine good. If everything was truth, it would just be so common. See, see? But, you see, it's something royal; it's something real, when truth and faith and so forth... Now, there we are.

L-169 Now, we've got to have these pro and cons. That's the way it goes. You've got to have good days to make you enjoy--or bad days to make you enjoy the good. You have to have a little sickness to make you enjoy good health. See? And you have to have your valleys to make you enjoy the mountain top. And so then some of these days it'll all be mountain tops; it'll all be health; it'll all be God; it'll all be joy, just... It'll--it'll be unending joy. But until that time (See?), we got to have this pro and con.
Now, everybody understands that, say "Amen." [Congregation says, "Amen. "--Ed.]

L-171 This girl was telling that she was trying to find God. Everywhere she went... She'd go to this church and that church, and whatevermore, but she couldn't find It. And once she found it going down the road; there was a little, old man going down, a little fellow, and he had a whole big cathedral on his back. He was walking down the road. And she said, "Oh, good Man." She said, "My, that's awful nice of You," said, "but You--You--You got the whole thing on Your back." He said... "It'll crush You."
He said, "No, it won't crush Me," said, "for I am the Rock that it's built on." That's Him.
Let's pray.

L-173 O Rock of Ages, I'm so glad to be just riding in a cathedral, knowing that we're resting upon the Rock. Oh, He said, the Rock, "It's no more than paper." And as the Rock begin to move on swiftly with it, the beautiful bells begin to chime on the inside. O Rock of Ages, hide us in Thy mercy. Carry us down the road and stream of life that our hearts would be full of joy and jingling praises to Thee all along the road.
We thank Thee for this visitation this morning of the Holy Spirit in the Word, as It comes in and makes the Word so real to us. Forgive us of our shortcomings and all that we have did or said that was wrong; forgive us for it. Help us to be better Christians, Father God. We pray that Your mercies will rest upon us.
I ask, Lord, if it be Your will, that we can return again pretty soon and--and finish these chapters here and take these seven seals. We're--we're looking forward to that time, Lord, that when You--You'll--You'll let us do that. And, Father, right here in our own little church we pray that You'll grant it to us, that we might understand these great things of God. Not because that we deserve it, Lord, but our hungry hearts are believing for it. We pray that You'll grant it.


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