<TITLE>05. Par 18-20</TITLE>L-18 Bless this church that we're here tonight, its lovely little pastor, and its whole being, Lord. It stands here as an example. It's a light to this city that people might see the way of truth. I pray that You'll make its members so salty that everyone in the neighborhood, and throughout the city, will thirst to be like them.
Now, I know that You plant these churches here for a purpose. They stand as a witness against evil. And there is a witness in them that God is just and true. I pray that You'd bless them, Father, abundantly.
Now, for this coming portion of the service tonight, no doubt but what You've already poured your blessings upon them. We pray that You'll bless us, Lord, with Your great presence. Speak to us through the Word, in the Spirit. We ask in Jesus' Name. Amen.

L-19 This afternoon as I was setting reading, my eyes fell upon a little text here that I might want to read, and use some of it for a context, if God being willing. And I wrote down some Scriptures and a few notes I'd like to speak to you a little bit about for the glory of God. Now, you that wish to turn, let's turn to Numbers the 14th chapter and begin with the 41st verse: Numbers 14:41, and we shall read, as it begins:
And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandments of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.
Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.
For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because you're turned away from the LORD, wherefore the LORD will not be with you.
But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.
Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites that dwelt in the hill--in that hill, and smote them, and discomfort them, even to Hormah.
May the Lord add his blessings to the reading of his Word. I wish to take a text from there, if the Lord willing, upon the subject of "Presuming."
It's a... I just love to read the Word because I know that that's true. The Word is what we stay by. It must always be the Word of God, or we'll--we'll go on the wrong road.

L-20 It's written over in St. John, I think about the 15th chapter, "If ye abide in Me, and My Word in you..." See, the Word abides in you. See? "Then ask what you will, and it'll be done." Because it's not you; it's the Word that's in you. And the Word is God (See?), God in you. God is the Word. "In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us."
Now, in the return of the Holy Spirit bringing the Word in us, and It abiding in there, then it's not you that speaks; it's the Word itself coming out. So, It--the Word will perform the work.
"Presume," I got the dictionary and looked up what the word "presume" actually meant. Webster says it means "to venture without actual authority." "To presume" anything is "to venture without actual authority, or to take for granted." To venture without actual authority, or to take for granted to do something before you are authorized to do it, without the actual authority to do it.


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