<TITLE>06. Par 34-41</TITLE>L-34 Now, a key... I notice here as we read, that this Angel came down from heaven, having the key in his hand. I believe it's Revelations 13 or 19, we find again, another Angel coming with a key. And a key is, a purpose of a key, is to unlock something, something that's been locked up, or it's something that should be locked up. But a key is given for that purpose.
Now, there are many kinds of keys, because we have many uses of keys. There's keys to the storehouses; there's key to your own house; there's key to your automobile. And we call them keys, and they are keys. And they can be duplicated many times. Or to the house, there sometimes can be made, what we call, the skeleton key. In other words, it's a key that's kinda made with the levers, acts on it, that--that twists the lock in a certain way and can almost unlock any door, called, the skeleton key. It's a skeleton frame of many keys, and it can be unlocked that way, with our houses or even to our automobiles, can be duplicated. And then there is...

L-36 Any key cannot unlock no door until it's used by a hand. It's got to have something to use the key. The key in itself cannot use itself. It's got to have something to yield the key.
It's like this microphone that I--that I am speaking through. That microphone is a mute. Unless there's something to speak through it, it cannot speak through itself. It's got to have something to speak through it. So it is not the microphone; it's the voice or the--the noise behind that the microphone transmits to the--the air wave to your ear.
Now, that's the way it is in preaching the Gospel. It's not we ourselves as ministers; we are not the Gospel. But we are only transmitters that transmits the Voice of God through our agency of man to the hearer.

L-39 A vision is the same way. I know nothing to say to the church at this time concerning a vision. But if the Holy Spirit would show, first, me a vision, then I transmit that vision to the one that it's directed to. So it was not my, me, the vision was not me, I; it was God gave the vision, and I acted as a transmitter to bring forth the message of the vision to the people.
Now, a key is the same thing. Pardon me. The key is only to be held in a hand that unlocks the door. See, it's got to be hand. Now, and in the key I'm going to speak about tonight, is only one hand can hold this key, and that's the hand of faith. It's the only thing can--can hold this key. And hands hold other keys, and it takes a hand of faith for that.

L-41 Now, we take like the key to knowledge. Now, a man has to, if he's trying to accumulate knowledge (See?), now, there's a key to that. There's a way that this man has to open up. He has to be to get his books and his learning, and he cannot... No one can learn him. They might teach him, but he has to learn. And the only way that it can be done, he has to catch that key, that something in there that unfolds or un--reveals to him the knowledge that he is seeking.
And there are people like would try to play a piano and the--or music. They don't know just how they do it, but they could go there and the teacher might take lesson after lesson, and they'd never learn it. They just cannot hold that key to that mystery, how the rhythm and the sounds of the tuning and so forth rings out. It takes the key.


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