<TITLE>18. Par 171-177</TITLE>L-171 When God's took at His Word, He is able to provide whatever He has need of. God, Jehovah-jireh, still is Jehovah-jireh tonight. He has a Sacrifice already provided. He has a church provided. He has a Messenger provided, the Holy Spirit. He's here now, Jehovah-jireh. The Lord has provided Himself a Bible, a Spirit, a Church, a Message, a Messenger. And the hour is here now for the Church to be raptured and taken home. Jehovah-jireh will provide the means to take that Church out of this world by transforming these feeble bodies of ours, and take them up into glory. Jehovah-jireh... How will it come to pass in a modern day like we're living in, that these things will be?

L-172 Billy, my son, wherever he's at, and I, was in India just recently. And I picked up a paper... When I got off the ship, thousands was standing there with garlands of the...?... When we got over to the Taj Motel, they had a paper laying there in English. And I seen a big piece in it, said, "It must be a sign the earthquake's over." What was the matter? Well, about three or four days before the great earthquake that you read about, all the little birds that lived in the rocks...
In India, they don't have fences like we have in California, the United States. They make their fences out of the rocks that they pick up. And the little birds build their nests in it. They make big towers, and birds build their nests in it. And all the little birds, a couple of days before the earthquake come, flew away from the walls. And in the evening time, or in the middle of the day when it got hot, the sheep and cattle would stand under the shade of the walls and the towers to keep out of the hot sun.
But for two days the cattle and the sheep never come to the walls. They stood out in the middle of the field and leaned against one another for comfort. Then the earthquake come, shook those walls down. And then the little birds begin to return back, the cattle from the field. What was it? The same God that could call the sheep and the cattle, and the birds into the ark, showed that He's the same God today that can call His animals away.

L-175 And if He can guide an animal by instinct, how much more ought the Church of God to get away from these big man-made walls and doctrines of the churches. Babylon is going to fall some of these days. Jehovah-jireh has provided Hisself a Resting Place for you. Fly away from the towers of the world. Fly away from the glamor of Hollywood. The churches are trying to mock after them, shine. The Gospel don't shine. Hollywood shines; the Gospel glows. Hollywood shines with glamor. The big church shines with education. And the Church of the living God glows with humility and sweetness, and the Holy Ghost. There's a lot of difference between a glow and a shine.

L-177 He's here now. Jehovah-jireh has provided for Himself. "God is able of these stones to rise children unto Abraham." If the denominations won't accept it, God can bring His children from the streets, prostitutes out of the inns. He can raise up anything He wants to. But if God has provided a message, there is somebody somewhere to receive It. Jehovah-jireh, the Lord will provide for Himself a Message. The Lord will provide for Himself a Messenger. The Lord will provide for Himself in His Own way, the signs to the Church; not joining, putting your names on books.
We hear so much today about decisions, so many decisions. What good does it do to pile up rocks if you haven't got a stone mason there to cut them and shape them out into sons and daughters of God? What good does it do to have big denominations built up by the thousands, if there--somebody isn't there with the sharp two-edged Sword of God to shape them out into real children of God? Might as well leave them out where they are. Amen. God (not Methodist, not Baptist, Catholic), God has provided Himself a Knife to shape out children of God, sons of God. Amen. Jehovah-jireh, "the Lord will provide for Himself." And He has. Believe Him and live.


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