<TITLE>12. Par 125-136</TITLE>L-125 Now, you just don't want to take that attitude. You could be as good as me, and be no good at all. See? But you want to not make any man your example. You want to make God your Example, Jesus Christ, and you want to take His Word. And if you don't...

L-126   Now, remember, the Bible said, over in the book of Revelations. This is the complete revelation of Jesus Christ. "Whoever takes one Word out of It, or puts one word to It, his part will be taken out of the Book of Life." So That is the Revelation.

L-127 "God in sundry times and divers manners," Hebrews 1, "spoke to the fathers through the prophets, but this last days through His Son, Christ Jesus." And, Christ, revealing Himself, making Himself known, taking His Word and just making It grow.

L-128   Standing the other day, talking, I believe, with Brother Carl Williams, there was a palm tree. I believe it was Brother Carl, or someone. And I said, "Isn't that a beautiful tree?"
He said, "Yes."
I said, "What is it? Volcanic ash."

L-129 That's all it is, dust of the earth, with a life in it. And that life was a certain kind of life, made it a palm tree. Over here stands another, it's a different kind of a tree. It's a fig tree. What is it? Volcanic ash from the earth, with the fig tree life in it.

L-130 Well, look at us. What are we? The same as that tree, volcanic ash, but with a human life in it. And that human life is of the earth, and must go back to the earth.

L-131 But there is a Life that comes from Above, that, a man, he lives by that Life. It's Eternal Life.
How foolish! Could not we seriously consider that, friends?

L-132   Now, it isn't an emotion. It isn't keeping a lot of creeds. It's an experience. It's a Birth. First, you have to experience a death before you can witness a Birth. Like, line that right: experience death, and then witness a Birth. Any seed has to do the same thing. And this Seed is God. And when It's placed into your heart, it brings forth the Birth of a son of God.

L-133 And that's the way Jesus was when He was on earth. He said, "Who can condemn Me of sin? Who can accuse Me, rather, of sin?" Sin is "unbelief." "If--if you can't believe Me, believe the works." "Search the Scriptures. In Them you think you have Eternal Life. They are the Ones that testify of Me. They're the Ones tells Who I am. And if I don't meet that qualification, just exactly what the Scripture said, the Father said I would be, when I come; if I don't meet that, then I've done wrong."

L-134   Oh, if we Christians, if we ministers, if we men, women, Pentecostals, and the rest of us, if we can't take what God said His Church should be, if we can't measure up to the statue that He said, then we can be condemned of sin, of unbelief. We try to say that the days of miracles is past, and all these other things, that, and so-and-so, and so-and-so, then we can be accused of unbelief. For, there's only one sin, and that's unbelief. "He that believeth not is condemned already." See? You don't even get to first base if you don't believe. "He that cometh to God must believe that He is, and a Rewarder of those that diligently seek Him." So what if a church...

L-135 That's what God wants. That's what God will have, a bunch of people that can say, "What has Jesus Christ promised? What has been promised in this last days that hasn't been manifested through us?" Amen. Then we can set down, remember Him, remembering Him when we come together.

L-136   If there's anything we're lacking, let's do it. If there's anything lacking with us, let's get back to that. Let's remember what He required, not what we think we ought to have, but what He said we got to have. See? We got to have it that way, the way that He said it. But wonder if we just...
We say, "Well, I--I--I belong to this."


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