<TITLE>14. Par 49-51</TITLE>L-49 Now, how do you know that this day, when the great conglomeration of everybody's got this, and that, this and that? But... And we know that God gives signs. There's signs on the road. If you didn't have a signpost, you wouldn't know where you were going. You can't take a road map and go, unless you got a signpost to see where you're going. This is the road map. This is the One what tells us whether we're right or not.
Jesus said, "These signs (in Mark 16) will point the way." Jesus said in John 14:12, "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also. More than this shall he do, 'cause I go to the Father." That's the refuge. In other words, if you come into Him, His nature and His Life will be in you, and you can feel it. You can see it. And it'll produce just exactly the Life that the Bible said it would produce.
If you bought a vine and it was a grapevine, and that grapevine went forth and produced a branch off of it, and that branch had grapes on it, now, how you going to get the next vine with a pumpkin on it? And the next vine comes off of it is going to have something else. If it is, it's a grafted vine.
And that's what's the matter today. We got too many grafted things called "the Church of Christ." We got too many grafts. It only bears the record of itself.

L-50 Here a few weeks ago I was speaking on the international broadcast for the Full Gospel Business Men in California. And when I did, I was speaking on a tree that I'd saw at Brother Sharritt's ranch in Phoenix. I think it had nine different kinds of fruit on it, and it was an orange tree. And I said, "I want to ask you something, Brother Sharritt." I said, "Now, there is a grapefruit, and there is a--a tangerine, a tangelo, and a lemon." Oh, I don't know how many citrus fruits was on that tree. And I said, "That tree... how did them get there?"
He said, "Well, I grafted them. They're all citrus, so I grafted them."
I said, "Now, next spring, or the next time it bears, it being originally a orange tree, then it will bring forth... all these branches will bring forth oranges?"
He said, "No, no. Huh-uh. No. It'll bring forth what kind of branch that's in it." Said, "If it's--if it's a--if it's a lemon branch in a orange tree, yet it'll bear lemons." And said, "If it's a--if it's a tangerine branch, it'll bear tangerines, living on the same life."
I said, "Then it'll never bear no more oranges?"
He said, "Oh, yes. When the original tree puts forth one of its original branches, it'll bear oranges."
I said, "Praise be to God; that's it."

L-51 Jesus said in John 14, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." And the first branch that come forth out of that Vine they wrote a Book of Acts behind it. That's right. And today, we have denominations living on the name of Christianity, but only bearing denominational fruit. That's right. But if that Vine ever puts forth another branch, you'll write a Book of Acts behind it, because it'll bear the original life.
If the Spirit of Christ is in the church, well, it'll do the works of Christ. Jesus said so. Then we can let off the steam, let off the pressure. You don't have to run from church to church. Just come to Christ. What did He do? How did we know Him? What would He be if He was here in the city tonight? What would He do if He stood here? He would tell you of a place. "Fear not... (the first thing after the resurrection), fear not. Don't be all upset. I'm He that was dead and is alive again. I am the same yesterday, today, and forever." We would know Him.


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