<TITLE>08. Par 55-62</TITLE>L-55 And then if this fire-walker, if he gets scared and runs through the fire, he brings reproach upon himself. But he must walk slow, steady through these coals of fire. And sometimes they're as many as fifteen feet deep, these coals of fire, and maybe fifteen--maybe fifteen feet deep, and maybe thirty yards or forty yards long, and about, oh, maybe eight or ten feet wide. And they're white hot. And he has nothing on but a clout, which is a little loincloth-like wrapped around the midst of him. And he gets out there, was hanging with all this, and bleeding, and fish hooks and everything all over his body, works hisself up into a frantic until white slobbers is pouring from his mouth.
And here he comes, walking through that fire, and walk out on the other side, unharmed at all, through the fire. And maybe his feet going that deep--legs down into the fire, two feet or better as he walks, pulling up them red-hot coals on his human flesh, walking through that fire, and comes out on the other side unharmed. You could look at his feet, not a scratch or a scorch.
And in watching so, and thinking, if a sacrifice to a pagan idol, with the blood of a goat, with faith in such would protect the heathen from fire, what would the Blood of Jesus Christ do for the believer to a living God?

L-58 Now, idolatry is a strange thing. Down through the ages we've had it, every since the--guess, the beginning of time. Now, the order for this idol worship is the man that sets up the idol, fixes the idol. Then he goes in and prepares himself for this great worship. Now, he believes that this idol is made in the image of some god that he doesn't never--has never seen. He's without a form, so he believes he's in the image of this idol that he makes to this god.
Now, don't let that leave you. The image is in the image of the mythical god that he believes that is.
Then he goes to--before this idol, and prostrates himself, and believes that the god that's an unseen person comes down into this idol. And he believes that he talks to god through this idol, that god brings hisself into this idol and answers him back. And many of you teachers here that's took the mythology... Even those gods, they had battles with one another, they claimed, and everything, in those days.
Now, in other words, the god hypnotizes himself from his supernatural standing, into this idol, and speaks back to the worshipper through this idol. And the worshipper, in some kind of a built-up emotional sense, believes that the idol speaks to him, to his heart, and he's forgiven of his sins and whatmore, through this idol, which plainly shows it's the devil. It's the devil that does it.

L-62 And they just don't just do things haphazardly; some of them does, but there's some real true worshippers of those things. For instance, I could tell you stories of how those devils in those idols perform all kinds of things: make blood come out of things, and everything else. They--they are--they are devils.
And if you don't believe in a--there is really a devil, you don't believe there's a God. Sure, you've got to believe the contrary; the pro and con. So there is a real devil, and he is a person, not a thought. He is a person.
Now, there's teaching goes on that says the devil is just an--an evil thought you get. No, no, it isn't. The devil is a person. The same people believes that the Holy Ghost is just a--a good thought you get. But don't believe that. The Holy Ghost is a Person; It's the Person of Christ in Spirit form.


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