<TITLE>03. Par 13-17</TITLE>L-13 Now, we take our Lord. When He was here He did not claim to do miracles. He said it was the Father, God, that dwelt in Him, and He was... He expressed God through Himself. God, in otherwise, built Himself a body that He lived in Himself. God came down, was manifested in flesh in Christ. And it was not Jesus, the body, the Son of God; it was the God of glory in the Son of God, showing the glory of God (You see?), through Himself: the God of glory manifesting the glory of God. And in Him... God dwelt in Him, and He reflected God.
Now, that's the way each of we ministers do. We reflect God, as God is in us. And then that's the only way that God can move, is--and people can see God, is through we, His servants. That's how... People won't read a Bible, but they'll read you. See? And so you reflect Christ. Your walks, your talks, your actions all reflect Christ.

L-14 You might not think that people are watching you, but they're watching every move you make. You are a Bible to many people. Therefore, we got to watch what we do, our business deals, and everything that we do in our entire walk. Just yield yourself to the Spirit, and God will reflect Himself through you, as I said, like a vine. Jesus said in John 15, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." Well, now remember, the vine does not bear fruit; it's the branch that bears fruit. But it gets its life from the vine.

L-15 Well now, a few months ago I was in Arizona to a precious friend of mine, John Sharritt. And he owns many citrus groves. Real poor brother, a Pentecostal brother, and the Lord blessed him, and now he owns... He... Well, he... The other day I think, he was telling me about he had forty-nine thousand acres of cotton and stuff, just what... The Lord has blessed him in a financial way. And he rides around in an old Chevrolet, and the--the sun visor hanging down. And we were...
He was showing me a tree that had about five or six different fruits, different kinds of fruit, on that one tree. Now, it was an orange tree to begin with, but they had grafted into this orange tree a lemon, a tangelo, tangerine, and a--and a grapefruit, and... Any citrus fruit would grow into that--that vine, into this tree.

L-16 And I said, "That's remarkable, Brother Sharritt. Now," I said, "now, next year when the next crop comes on, they'll all be oranges?"
He said, "Oh, no, huh-uh." He said, "The vine... The branch that is a grapefruit branch will bring forth a grapefruit, and the lemon will bring forth a lemon."
I said, "Now, wait a minute; on a orange tree?"
He said, "Yes. It's all citrus fruit, but it'll bring forth its kind, the branch that's in it."
And I said, "Now, if this--this certain tree then will bring forth another branch itself, what will it be?"
He said, "Like the original. It will be a--a orange tree."
I said, "I got it." See?

L-17 Now, Christ is the branch... He is the--the Vine. But if we graft in... This morning, here, there may be different denominations among us: Assemblies, and Oneness, and--and Church of God, and--and all these other different churches, denominations. See? If we take our denominational branch and put it in there, it'll just bear denominational fruit. That's where we have... into the Christian line of Christian name, of Christian life, like citrus fruit, we have grafted in there Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, Lutheran, Catholic. All different kinds are under that name of Christianity.
But did you notice, when that original tree put forth a branch at the beginning, that vine put forth its first branch, they wrote a book of Acts behind it. And if... These churches, denominations, are living off of this citrus vine in the name of Christianity; but if that true vine ever puts out another branch, they'll write another book of Acts behind it. That's right (See?), because it'll bear the fruit.


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