<TITLE>16. Par 157-165</TITLE>L-157 Oh, one time, man saw that, a bunch of Galilean, perhaps fishermen, and they had a poor old man that was so sick he couldn't hardly get out of his bed, and they tried to get him to the Word. And they could find no room, for there were many hungering for God. And the house was piled up, the little cottage, fisherman's shack down on the river. They had a few tilings on top. And to get this man before the Word, they didn't think of the price it would cost them. They tore up the roof, anything, just so they could come in contact with the Word. And as soon as He, the Word, saw the cot come, going down, He said, "Thy sins be forgiven thee, son. Take up your bed and go on home." Why? He was in contact with the Word. See, he believed It.
Now, if he had said, "But, you know, I've been laying here all these years, I can't do that." It would've done him no good. But when he contacted the Word, he received the Word, gladly received the Word. "I believe It. I know that It's so. I know He is the Word." Therefore, as soon as he contacted the Word, he picked up his couch and went walking on.
The Pharisee said, "This Man's blaspheming. He's forgiving sins."
Said, "Which is easier to say, 'Thy sins be forgiven thee,' or, 'Take up the bed and walk'?" See? Oh, my. They failed to see Who He was. He was the Word.

L-163 What a comfort to those Galileans. How they believed Him, how they loved Him. Now, one day they seen Him go to Calvary. They heard Him saying, "A little while, and the world seeth Me no more. Oh, I'm... The Son of man, must go up to Jerusalem, and be put into the hands of sinful men, crucified, die." How could they stand it? Their hearts was broken. They were depressed. There... They was all in gloom. How could they ever give Him up? Because the word that the prophets had spoken, the words that the sages, and all the great holy men back to the end, in the beginning of the world, had spoke of that Word, and here It was among them.
But then look what a promise He made. "I will not leave you comfortless. I will not leave you comfortless. I'll pray the Father, and He'll send you another Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, and He will abide with you forever; even the Spirit of Truth, Whom the world cannot receive, because it knoweth Him not. It seeth Him not, now, neither does it know Him--knows Him. But you know Him. You know Him because He is with you, and He shall be in you."

L-165 There It is. And how long's He going to abide? Forever. Then what is the Word of God? What is our comfort today? It's when we receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and the power of the living God living in us. And that's with the Word of the living God, we stand; that Word's made flesh and dwelt among us. Now, that same Word that was made flesh and dwelt among us has become our flesh. "He is with you now, but He shall be in you." Now, that same Word that the prophet spoke, that same Word that was made flesh, that same Word dwells in the Church. Therefore, if we don't compromise that Word, we stay right with It, if we don't compromise It, that same Word living in you will produce the same thing that It did when He was made flesh, because your flesh holds It.
That's the reason visions can break through the sound barrier. That's the reason a vision can break through time barriers and say, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, it shall be so-and-so." And that's the way it is. What is it? It's the Word coming forth from a Spirit.


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