<TITLE>10. Par 69-74</TITLE>L-69 Out into the deserts, how many men has lost their lives from thirst. Many stories, that I could keep you all night, of true stories of the desert. How that when you get--become thirsty, how the devil gives you a--a mirage. You've seen them here; you don't have to go west to see it. Go down the road, and it looks like there's water down the road. Every one of you has seen that that's drove and been on the highway. That's a false mirage.
Here sometime ago, about three or four years ago, I read where some ducks, flying across the country, seen a mirage and fell on the road, thinking they were hitting the water. And they just disintegrated, hit the hard road, thinking they were landing in water: a mirage.

L-70 How many times has the devil done that same thing to people, give them a false mirage where there is nothing there, but it's just a make-belief. So many people today get a make-belief religion, trying to make up something or pretend there's something when it's not so. Like the little missionary woman said that she waited until she was positive. We better do that. You can't come back and try it again, You got one chance, and you got the Blueprint, so we better go right down to the mark.

L-71 The cry of hunger (listen.), it's a great cry because it's a distressful cry. The person is dying. And, oh, if we could get to that place, if this nation could get to a place to where it so hungered for God... It's a--in a worse starvation than in the nations like India that's starving physically; this nation is starving spiritually. But after you hunger so long, it gets to the place you don't know you're hungry.
Just like freezing. After you get so far freezing, you get so cold, then after while you become warm. And when you do, you're dying. That's what's the matter tonight. The churches has got so cold until they're freezing, and think that they're warm by membership, and are dying spiritually: dying, don't know it. Finally, he lays down to sleep, and that's all of it. He never wakes no more, because his blood's froze in his veins.

L-73 Now, thirsting... Jesus said, "My Blood is drink indeed." If you're hungering for life, hungering for life, Jesus has the only water that can quench that thirst. "Come unto Me, all ye that are labor and heavy laden." Over in Revelations It said, "Let him that's thirsty come to the fountains of water of Life and drink freely," if you're thirsty for Life.

L-74 We see that the astronomers are predicting, sometime in this early part or the first part of the month, beginning on the second or the fifth, or somewhere along this month, the Indian astronomers predict the world to blow to pieces. And the American newspapers make fun of it. I do not believe the world's going to blow to pieces, but I do say it's wrong to make fun of it. Because something's fixing to happen one of these days, something similar to that, when the five planets, Mars, Jupiter, and Venus, and--and so forth comes into their--their... They never have did it. Oh, they claim maybe twenty-five thousand years ago, but who was back there to know it?


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