<TITLE>07. Par 23-26</TITLE>L-23 Like the old southern colored brother said, he said, "I'd rather be standing on the Word of God than standing in heaven."
Said, "Why so, Mose?"
He said, "Why, heavens and earth will pass away, but the Word won't." So he won't--he wanted to really be there, sure. So that's exactly right. The Bible said in Revelation 21, "Heavens and earth will pass away, but My--but My Word shall not pass away." He said in Revelation 21, he saw a new heavens and new earth, for the first heavens and earth was passed away. Jesus said both heavens and earth will pass away, but His Word should not.

L-24 Now, we got to have basic faith on what we're doing. That's exactly how those visions can be achieved, is because it's based upon a promise of Christ. And if that Angel of the Lord, that Pillar of Fire, that... You've got His picture here. I guess they have had it up here, have they? If that did not say exactly with this Word, I wouldn't believe it. I don't care how real it seemed; it's got to come according to this Word.
And that Angel of the Lord was the One, that Pillar of Fire that followed Israel, or Israel followed It, rather, through the wilderness. Then It was made flesh and dwelt among us. You believe that, don't you? Sure. God was in Christ.
He said, "I come from God, and I go to God." Is that right? After His death, burial, and resurrection, and His ascension, Saul of Tarsus was on his road down to Damascus. And all at once that big Pillar of Fire, of Light, before him smote him in the eyes, and he fell to the ground. And he heard a voice saying, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?"
And he said, "Who are You, Lord?"
He said, "I'm Jesus." He had returned to God.
He came into the prison as a Light that let Peter out of the prison, took him out.

L-25 And now, if that be the Angel of the Lord leading these people, It'll produce the same thing that It did when It was manifested in the true Son of God. It'll do the same thing in the adopted sons of God. For Jesus said, "The works that I do shall you do also." If His Life is in us, It'll produce the same. And if it does things contrary to the Scripture, then it can't be the same Angel.
But if It produces the same Life that It was when It was here on earth, manifested in flesh, and promised to be manifested again the same way, then It's the same Spirit, same God, by the same Word. See what I mean? Now, then you can base your faith that that is the truth. And of the tens of thousands of visions around the world, I'll ask anyone at any time to show me where it ever failed. It doesn't fail. And it can't fail.

L-26 This what you see here is an amateur vision. It's just small things. You do that yourself. It's you. Look at Christ. He was the Fullness of God. God dwelt in Christ without measure. He had the Spirit without measure; we have It by measure. But if I got a spoonful of water out of the lake out here... The ocean, that's what was in Christ. If I got a spoonful of water, just be a spoonful of water out of it. But the same chemicals that's in the entire ocean is in that spoonful, just not... It's--it's not as much of it, but the same chemicals.
And if we have the Spirit of God in us, it's the same works and the same Spirit, the same manifestation. See? It just... Then you base your faith upon that. And when you see what it is, then you can be perseverant. You know where you're standing.


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