<TITLE>03. Par 10-13</TITLE>L-10 How can you base yourself upon an experience, or some sensation? The devil can impersonate any sensation you can--you can crop up. I've seen all this stuff. I've seen people... I've seen heathens dance in the spirit, speak in tongues, and drink blood out of a human skull, and call on the devil. I've seen people shout, and go in... Mohammedans run splinters through their fingers till they couldn't even feel it, take a lance, and up through their face like that, shouting, screaming, praising their god. You call that God? I've seen them run fish hooks through them, balls of water hang like that, and walk through fire fifteen feet deep and four feet across like that, back and forth, and not be a scorch of fire on them, not even the smell of burn. Do you call that God? Certainly not. God is the Word. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." And the Word's still God. How we going to judge?

L-11 My own mother, going to heaven not long ago, she said, "Billy, you've been my support in spiritual things, I--and you've taken care of me and seen that I didn't go hungry."
I said, "Mother..." We are Catholic background. We know that, being Irish." I said. "When I was a young man and hadn't felt the call of God. We didn't go to no church, none of us, never was in a church in my life, I guess, till I was a man. And I said... I went over to the Catholic church, and they said, 'We are the church.' I go down to the Lutheran and they say, 'We are the church.' Over to the Baptists, 'We are the church.'"
Well, which one is the church? There's nine hundred and something of them. No one can base a faith on that. No one can base a faith upon a sensation. There's only one is right, and that's God's Word. "Heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word shall not."

L-12 Eve just misinterpreted, or Satan did to Eve, just one little fraction of God's Word, just a little bitty thing, and it's caused all this trouble. Is that right? Every death, every--every baby, every water-head baby, every crippled man, every--every death, every graveyard, and everything, was by one person just misbelieving God's Word in one little twist. And if God wouldn't let it get by then, how much more now? We're going to come to the Word, or we won't come at all. That's right.
So you can imagine, loving people, lovely people, and how it takes to stand up there and not think of what you're going to say, and see the Spirit blast those things out, but yet, the comfort of Him being with you to see Him come, show things. I can take... Anybody that thinks I was a fortuneteller, soothsayer, do you know that's the very reason they put Jesus to death? The very thing, 'cause He perceived their thoughts and so forth.

L-13 If I'd read the thoughts here last night, I'd--I'd have had a such a... If the Holy Spirit would've permitted me to speak last night of such things that was going on, you'd have throwed me out of the country. People pat you on the back and say, "Brother," and think you're a fortuneteller. Don't you think I know that? I can't have the Spirit of God without knowing it. "He that believeth in Me, the works that I do, shall he do also; more than this shall he do; I go to My Father." See what I mean? Let us pray.


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