<TITLE>04. Par 22-31</TITLE>L-22   And we find out that Eli was not a prophet, Eli was a priest. And he was getting old, and his eyes were going dim, and he could not see to get around, was a great heavy man. And he had begin to let the work of the Lord go undone.

L-23 And that's something like it is of today. I think the church, the organization and denominations, they've been on the field for a long time, and they're beginning getting laxed. And the work of the Lord is being left undone, the Word of Truth, because the church, in itself, has become dim-sighted. And we need, today, the Voice of God to speak among us, bring us back.

L-24 And, see, Eli had laid down, and the... his eyesight was failing. He was a priest. And they had no open vision from the Lord. And that great need!

L-25   And God has promised to meet the need of the hour. He always does that. And we need the Voice of God today, to meet the need of the hour, to meet the time that we're living in. And after He has promised it, we can rest assured that He will keep His promise. That's the confidence that the believer has in His Maker, that He promised to meet the need.

L-26 And, today, one reason that the church is in the condition that it's in, is because there is so many voices, so many other voices to attract the church from the Voice of God, till it's very doubtful that many would hear the Voice of God though It spoke right in their midst. They perhaps wouldn't even understand It, because It would be a foreign thing to them. They have got themselves so much centered on the voices of the day!

L-27   And if we notice, in our Scripture reading, that the Voice of God was foreign to them.

L-28 And it's become that way again today, that the Voice of God... There is so many other voices. And then if God promised He would give us That, and if other voices are contrary to the Voice of God, then it must be the voice of our enemy, to confuse us, that we would not understand the Voice of God when It spoke.

L-29 And we notice it was something similar to that with Eli and with Samuel, but Eli recognized right away that it was God. And it was absolutely a--a blaspheme on Eli. Because, the Voice of God, speaking to Samuel, had told him about Eli's wrongdoings, for he had babied his sons, and they was taking money and--and the flesh from the offerings. That was not right. And they were doing things wrong, contrary to God's Word.

L-30   And Samuel had... only thing that Samuel could do, would speak exactly. And he was a little reluctant to do so, because it was against the very place that he was sent to be raised up in, Eli and in the temple. But Eli said, "Speak on." See? And he told him exactly what was going to happen, that Samuel... or, "Eli's day was finished, as a priest," because God had spoke, and God was sending His Message through Samuel the prophet. Very odd birth, dedicated to the Lord from a child. God spoke to him, as a child, and was preparing him for a work that laid ahead. And Eli's time was finishing up.

L-31   There is so many voices in the earth today, that it is absolutely a hard thing, because it deadens the Voice of the Supernatural. There is so many intellectual voices, great voices of mighty man who are intellectual, that, in their intellectual conditions, even shake the nations. They're just not over-night people, but they shake nations, bringing great organizations together, great campaigns, flowerly. And a person would be a bit confused. It's enough to confuse them, of how that these things go on and prosper. And there's voices that--that raise up and do these things, and it causes the Voice of God to be placed way back somewhere, the true Voice of God.


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