<TITLE>07. Par 24-27</TITLE>L-24 Like, you can take the donkey and breed it to the horse and the mare, and it will produce a mule. But the mule... The mother mule and father mule cannot have a baby mule. You have to keep hybrid.
The same thing with corn, it's beautiful, but you read "Reader's Digest," what all these hybrid things are doing to the people--cancer and everything else. Hybrid chickens, they say that in twenty years, if it isn't stopped, what will happen? Women cannot have babies no more. They're becoming stronger, closing up, smaller in the hips, can't have the baby.
Leave things the way they are. Let God alone. That's the way with His Word. Leave It like It is. Don't try to add something to It to fit a creed. Keep It just the way God said It. Believe It. That will make a husky, strong Christian, not a baby that has to be denominational babied, petted around, letter from church, one denomination to another. When He puts his name on the Book in heaven, it's settled forever.

L-25 Jesus might've said, "Now, in order to get back to the original, God has to speak again." That's what He does when He gives you new birth. Your old life is gone, and you're back to the original Word of the Lord. If you're not, you're hybrid into churches, denominations. But when God speaks His peace and the Holy Spirit, then you're back in the original family of God again. You don't have to be babied then. You're a rugged Christian who can stand it.
Go to the cross, to the fiery furnace, to the lion's den, or wherever it may be, because the Word of the living God burning in your heart and soul. And all can backslide, all can turn against you and everything else, but that won't stop one thing. That rugged Word of God stays right there when He spoke that original voice into your heart, "You are Mine."

L-26 I suppose maybe on something like that, I don't know, but He might've been speaking. And His voice was hoarse, His lips parched, His face red from the direct rays of the Palestinian sun, which is very hot. And then, maybe Philip and Peter waiting till He finished, and then maybe He said this at the last, "Seek, and you shall find."
And about time He finished that, Peter might've said, "Lord, here is a man that's been sent from a certain place by a certain man, and he wishes to speak with You."
And He looked down at him and said, "Say on."
Never too tired but what He's ready to listen to anything you want to say. He's the same today. No matter how late it is in the night, how weary He might be, He's still ready to answer anything, question, that you'll ask Him.

L-27 And he said... This courier perhaps thought this was a time that his journey was over. So he said to Him, "A certain-certain cardinal, bishop something, Pharisee, my master, is going to have a great feast. And he's honored you; because my master is a great man, and he's honored you, seeing the crowd that's around you," in other words, see the way you're dressed. "And yet he wants you to come and visit him at this feast at such-and-such a time."
Jesus always goes where He's invited. No matter where it's at, He will come. Oh, He come to a lion's den one time, to a fiery furnace. I believe it was David said, "I make my bed in hell, He will be there." He will come to the poorest, to the richest, to the most immoral, to the meanest, to the lowest. He will come anywhere He's invited. No matter what your conditions and position in life is, He will still come. That makes Him God to me: Humble. "I'll be there. Go tell your master, I'll be there at that such-and-such a date. I'll be there."
That most miserable courier, how could he have done it? I wish I could've had his place: turned his back upon the Lord and went away with a satisfied feeling that he had pleased his master. So many times we're guilty of that. We're so interested...


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