<TITLE>18. Par 169-173</TITLE>L-169 The sun always rises in the east and sets in the west. Civilization's traveled with the sun. We know that. The oldest civilization we have is China. And when the Son (S-o-n) shined Its first time, was on the eastern people. Now, civilization's traveled till we're... Right yonder is the west coast. If we go any further, we'll be east again. The next stop is Japan, China. We'll be east again if we go any further. Civilization has traveled with--with the sun.
Now, the prophet said, "There'll be a day that cannot be called day or night, a dismal, foggy day." People has knowed enough about God to join a church, put their name on a book, walk in what Light they had. On a foggy day, there's so much light of the sun, or you couldn't get around at all. But he said, "In the evening time, it shall be Light." What is it? The same sun that rises in the east, sets in the west. And the same Son of God that manifested and appeared in the east is appearing in the west now at the evening time, evening Light to the Church that's called out and filled with the Holy Spirit.

L-171 Christ, by the Blood and power of His Own veins, cleansed an unclean people, and dwells among them in the form of the Holy Ghost. Amen. The picture of It, how many ever seen that picture? It's right back there now; You can go look at It. George J. Lacy, the head of the FBI in fingerprint and things, been taken. And that same Angel that led Israel is here now performing and doing the same thing It did when It was in the Person of Jesus Christ. Christ, the body, has ascended up to the right hand of the Father; but the Holy Spirit come back; the Life that was in Christ is in the Church. Now, Christ didn't... Well, if...

L-172 When Jesus said, in John 15, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches"... Now, the Vine doesn't bear fruit; it's the branch. You know that, you people here, you grape raisers, and so forth. Now, if that first branch that come out of the Vine produced a Book of Acts behind it, that first Church; if that Vine ever puts forth another--another branch, it'll write another Book of Acts behind it. For the very Life that's in the Vine brings forth into the branch. Sure. We've got a lot of grafted branches in here.

L-173 I seen a tree the other day in Phoenix, Arizona, had nine different fruits on it, citrus fruits. And I said to somebody, I said, "Brother Sharritt." I said, "Brother Sharritt, that's--what is that? Lemon, tangerine, tangelo, and--and grapefruit, and everything." I said, "Now, when that, all them are picked off," I said, "next year then it'll bring forth, it'll bring forth oranges, 'cause it's a orange tree."
Said, "Oh, no. It'll bring forth grapefruit, lemon, and whatever the branch is."
"Why," I said, "that's a strange thing. You mean you perverted that orange tree into them kind of trees?"
He said, "No. The orange tree's still the same. If it ever puts forth another branch, it'll bring forth an orange. But what's grafted into it like that, it brings forth of its own kind, because it's a citrus fruit."
I said, "There you are."
Denomination can only bring forth denomination fruit. But if that original Vine ever puts out another one, it'll be Jesus Christ the same yesterday... "I will restore," saith the Lord. Amen. (It's time to go home.)


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