<TITLE>12. Par -</TITLE>L-18-6 What was the matter? You had to open the channel first. You've got to get the Soldier, the Holy Spirit, placed at the battle front to take God's Word. He is the Word, and He stands there; and there's nothing going to stop it then. There's nothing can... Every one of the other channels is cleared out.
Just like on old boiler with the flue stopped up; you put a fire, and it'll blow your thing up. That's what's the matter with so many blowed up Christians is because that they don't clean the channels out; they don't go down to the inside. You've got to clean it: conscience, memory, thoughts, laying aside everything and coming from the inside out with that unadulterated Word of God, that It's the Truth. No matter if ten thousand died on this side today trusting, ten thousand died on that side tomorrow trusting, that has nothing to do with me. I'm the individual; I'm the one that's trusting; I'm the one that believes it.

L-19-2 And we see back yonder, if we want to open up our channels then, if we can and see, we find this one and that one, and this one and that one, thousands of them testifying, but the devil will try to come right back. See, if he could get in there at all, he's got your army routed right then. If you've got your senses, see, taste, feel, smell, and hear, they're all right, but don't trust them unless they agree with the Word. They're all right, but if they disagree with the Word, don't you listen to them.
Now, imaginations, conscience, memories, reasons, and affection, they're all right, if they agree with the Word. But if your affection doesn't agree with the Word, get rid of it; you blow a flue right quick. See? If your reason disagrees with the Word get away from it. That's right. The engine... If your memory, if your imaginations, if your conscience, anything disagrees with that, what's on the inside, get rid of it.

L-19-4 What you got then? You've got a solar system. Hallelujah. God set the stars in order and said, "Hang there till I call you." They stay there. Nothing's going to move them. When God can get a man in His hands, till he can get senses, conscience, everything cleaned out, until it stands with God behind it in the Spirit, there's not a devil in the world can poke a doubt in there. That's right.

L-19-5 If he come around and say, "You don't feel any better," your conscience is even gone to that. The flue's so clear it shouts, "Hallelujah." The outlet blows a whistle; "Glory to God," it sounds out, certainly, just as clean and clear for the Word of God to work through, the power of God. See? That's the main thing; there's your battleground. Your battleground is back here at the beginning, back here in the soul, back in your mind, that opens. The--the mind is the gate to the soul, the--the gate to the spirit, rather. Your mind opens up and accepts the Spirit or it rejects the Spirit.

L-20-1 You can have little consciences, and little feelings, and little sensations, all these things; that has nothing to do with it. That's just little sensations and things. But when it comes to reality, your mind opens it up. Your mind either accepts it or rejects it. That's it, friends. God, let none of them miss it. See? It's your mind that opens up the door, or closes the door, and listens to your conscience, listens to your memory, listens to your affections. But when your mind closes itself to these things and let God, the Spirit of His Word, come in, It blows the rest of the stuff out. Every doubt is gone; every fear is gone; every sensation of doubt is gone; every feeling is gone. There's nothing standing there but the Word of God, and Satan cannot battle against That. No, sir! He cannot battle against It. Now, we know that's Truth.


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