<TITLE>09. Par 69-78</TITLE>L-69 Now, what does a mother, with her little baby, when he's sick and fretting? She picks up the little fellow. She holds him up to her breast, and she--he nurses the mother's strength into his own body through the breast. And not only is he satisfied or is he... He's quietened. He's screaming to the top of his voice; he's all disturbed; but when the mother picks him up and puts her--puts him upon her breast, and begins to hum to him, rock him back and forth, he feels his mother, his head's on her bosom, and he begins to nurse and draw the strength from his mother into his body. He's rejuvenating himself, building up strength, and also satisfied, while day by day he's growing stronger and stronger.

L-70 What an experience to the Seed of Abraham. He's still Almighty God, El Shaddai. We can take ahold of any promise that He made in the Bible. His Seed, His children, if you're sick, just take ahold of the breast of the promise of the Word that said, "By His stripes we are healed." It satisfies. And we are drawing constantly, our strength from the strong One, El, the strong One, the eternal One, drawing His Life from Him, through His promise.
What a feeling it gives a person laying upon the bosom of El Shaddai, believing, knowing that we are nursing the power of Christ from His promise into us.
When El Shaddai leaned Abraham on His bosom twenty-five years before; an old man, seventy-five years old, and his wife sixty-five; he never left that Breast. He walked right on through a strange land, amongst strange people who knew not God, but he constantly give testimony and was strong in faith, giving praise to God, because he knowed he was drawing from that promise.

L-73 What a hope it is for the church tonight in the hour of darkness, superstition, sensation, intellectual. The Holy Spirit said, "In the last days there'd come an intellectual church. The Spirit speaks expressingly (I Timothy 3), in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, give heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils (Sure.), having a form of godliness." What were they doing? "Heady, high-minded...": Doctor Ph.D., LL.D., QST, all these titles. "Why, Doctor So-and-so, a times so-and-so, is our pastor."
I'd rather some man, being my family or my child, that didn't know the difference between split beans and coffee, and knowed Christ. That's right. Take him out yonder somewhere by an old stump and kneel down on his knees and pray with him till the Holy Ghost comes into him. I'd rather have that than all the psychology you could pour into him by a doctor's degree. Tell him the Word of God. Yes.

L-75 "But heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, and despisers of those that are right."
Oh, you say, "That's Communists." No, no. That's so-called Christians.
"Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof, from such turn away. For this is the sort that goes from house to house, leading silly women, led away with divers lusts, never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." That's right. That's what it is. And we see that day.

L-78 And what a consolation for the believer to separate himself from all the unbelief, all their ungodly creeds, all their ungodly doctrines, and look straight to Christ and take the Word, and hold onto that Word till you see It being made manifest. No matter how long you have to wait, stay there. God promised it. He led you to it; hold onto it. Stay there. Don't take it back. Stay right there. If you're sure of it, you'll stay there. But if you're wavering, you'll turn loose at any little thing. A monkey grabs at shiny things, but a bear holds his hold. So you stay on. Yes, hold on, good grip...


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