<TITLE>25. Par 185-189</TITLE>L-185 But you try to tell some of these modern people today, just take the crumbs. "Oh, no." If they can't have first place, they don't want nothing at all. "You'll either come down to me..." Like Naaman was with his leprosy, "You'll come down and you'll strike your hands over me and you'll tell me all these different things, and so forth, or I just don't believe It at all. Now, that's the way... Why, I just won't go back no more." That's the reason you don't get nothing. See?
You got to be willing to take crumbs. Do you hear it? Take the crumbs, my brother; take the crumbs, my sister, regardless of what He gives you and just receive It. Say, "God," thank Him, "I just got a little bit of faith, but I'm sure going to hold to that and thank You for it. I believe that I can be made well. Yes, sir. I believe the Word of God is right, and I'm going to hold right on to This. And I'm going to be well." You watch what happens. Just take the crumb, the least little crumb. Sure.

L-187 Remember, she had never seen a miracle. She was a heathen. She'd never seen Him perform any miracles. She'd never knowed that He was God. She'd never knowed, only just by hearing. But when she got there, perhaps, and seen something that He done, that was different. See, they heard them say, "Well, you know that in their Bible It says the Lord will raise up a prophet, and He'll perform miracles and know the secrets of the heart, and tell the people these thing, and great things will take place." "Is that so?" She'd never seen it done, but she believed it anyhow. There you are. There you are.

L-188 I think of Rahab the harlot; she had never seen Israel, but she'd heard, and she hid the spies: denied her own, her own church, her own people and everything else, and hid the spies, because she heard. She never said, "Wait till I hear Joshua preach sometime. Let me draw my conception after I hear him preach. Let me see God open up the Red Sea somewhere, or let me see Him do something like that. Then maybe I would've hid you all if I'd seen something like that." She didn't wait for that. She said, "I believe. We have heard. We have heard."

L-189 O God, I heard, I know that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. I know that He's God manifested in the flesh. I know that He lives today in His church. I know that He's here now. I know. I know that wasn't my picture He had taken; I know It was His. I know that's the same Pillar of Fire with us today, because It's doing the same works, the same signs, the same wonders, the same things that He did. It's the same Pillar of Fire that led Israel. When Jesus, anybody that knows their Bible knowed that He was the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel that went before them in the wilderness. Didn't Christ... Moses esteemed the reproach of Christ greater treasures than that of Egypt, followed a Pillar of Fire out into the wilderness.
Jesus, when He was... That Pillar of Fire was made manifest, He said, "I come from God and I go to God." He went back to the Father.
Then after His death, burial, and resurrection, and ascension, Paul (Saul it was then), on, of Tarsus, on the road down to Damascus, was struck down by that same Pillar of Fire. That... Nobody else saw It. All of them standing around, they didn't see It, but Saul saw It. And a Voice said, "Saul, Saul, why persecute thou Me?"
Said, "Who are You, Lord?"
He said, "I'm Jesus." See? "I come from God, I go to God."


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