<TITLE>15. Par -</TITLE>L-25-8 Now, let's stop. Always so limited with time; I'm going to skip down here a few Scriptures and go down here to Psalms the 1st.
David saw this Tree a long time ago. And of his writing of songs for something joyful, that was the first thing he wrote about. He saw this Tree, and It was planted by the rivers of water--this Tree. "He... And he shall be like a tree," God's Tree. Planted where? "By the rivers (rivers, plural), the rivers of water (singular)." Not a Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, so forth. No, no. Huh-uh. Just rivers of one water: nine spiritual gifts by the same Spirit, nine fruits of the Spirit coming from the same Channel. "He shall be like a Tree that's planted by the rivers of waters."

L-26-1 David saw it, and he spoke; he said, "Blessed is that man..." And notice, he said he could not die. His leaves would not wither. No, no. No matter what they do, they'll never kill that Tree. Why? It's where It's planted. That's what does it. It's where he's planted. He's planted by the rivers of water. Now, notice, David said, "His--his roots won't die."

L-26-2 You know, you take a tree, a big old tree. I... When I was a boy, I used to go out, and we'd, us boys we'd go out, and had a big old tree we used to set under, a big old beech tree. And the winds would blow; and I'd wonder, looked like that thing, so much in the top looked like it'd blow the--the thing over. But you know, every time wind blows on a tree, it rocks the tree, and it loosens up the roots, so that they can just dig deeper and get a better hold.
And that's the way mockery, laughing, making fun of a Christian, what it does is, persecution shakes the Christian to make him pray more, dig down, get a better hold, so he can stand the storms.

L-26-4 Now, what if a man's planted in such a thing as by the river, where the springs, nine different springs feeding into him? Oh, my. What a--what a establishment he has. And a man that's planted by the river, the rivers of water (one water, one Spirit)... There are gifts of healing (same Spirit), gifts of prophecy (same Spirit), all the same Spirit but many gifts, one Giver.
Now, David saw him, and he was planted by this Tree. Now, he could not die. Now, notice. Why? He had Life in the roots. Where is the roots--or life of the tree? Stays in the roots. Certainly. Comes up and bears its fruit. All right, watch. His roots had Life in them to bring forth His fruit in seasons.

L-26-6 Now, remember, this Tree will not cast Its fruit. Now, you take a tree and put it away from water; the first thing you know you got little old apples; they're all knotty and worm-eaten. But it'll cast its--its--its crop.
And that's what's the matter with the churches today. You've done got away from that River, got away from them gifts of the Spirit; they got just a church natural. And they get away from the spiritual gifts and the spiritual things, and they cast their fruit. What do they do? They're--they're believers, live with the world, act like the world, steal, cheat, lie, smoke, drink, gamble, have bunco parties in the church to pay the preacher, and everything else, soup suppers, dances. See? They cast their fruit. It's just like the world, and the unbeliever look and say, "There's no difference in that person and me."

L-27-2 That's what caused communism to rise in Russia. That's the reason they burnt up the Catholic church in--down in Mexico. When I was there and seen those lime pits where those--and those places where they burnt those little babies, where those nuns had these babies; even human bodies, full-grown human bodies was laying in there, in the lime pits. What'd they do? They cast their crop (See?), and God shook them off the tree; that was all. See?


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