<TITLE>04. Par 39-45</TITLE>L-39   Did you notice on the Day of Pentecost, what a great thing we have there? That, God, Who led the children of Israel through the wilderness, He, that great Pillar of Fire. And on the Day of Pentecost, this great Fire fell, and then divided Itself among His people. Oh, to think how that He wants us to sit together in Heavenly places, then, each one enjoying that warmth of the Fire of the Holy Spirit. "Cloven tongues set upon them like Fire, licks of Fire," God dividing Hisself amongst the Church. Oh, wouldn't that, though, just set our hearts burning. That's when we can come together in Heavenly places.

L-40   Now, we know that His table, where the people set together and commune with Him, is like an oasis in a desert. And an oasis, in the desert, where there's a great spring, where weary travelers come and set around this oasis in the desert, and--and refresh themselves, and then remembering how it got there.

L-41 And that's the way it is in the Church, that, this table of communion where all the blessings of God, the full Gospel, everything that God has for His Church, is brought out, laid out among us. And it's like an--an oasis in this hot, burning, sinful desert that we're traveling through. And then when we come in, and talk of, read the menu, and then we see that He turns back around, and He's not fresh out of this, or fresh out of that, or this struck off, but He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. He's got everything on the menu, ready to give it out. That's the good part. Then we can just look over the menu and just take the whole thing. I just like to... I like the complete course. Don't you? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] I just like to take it.

L-42   And while we are enjoying these blessings, each one feeling His Presence, and saying, "Amen. Praise God! Hallelujah!" so forth, in that we can remember the One that brought it to us and made it possible, the death of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Remember Him. I think that's what, many times, that maybe we enjoy so many blessings, that we forget just where they come from.

L-43 One time I was amazed. Went with a bunch of Christians of a certain church, and they set down to eat, and never returned thanks to God, for their food. Well, I thought it was kind of strange. And I went to another house, and they, still, they just went ahead and eat. And I--I questioned it. And they said, "Oh, well. That's just... God just provides that, anyhow. See?"

L-44 I said, "It reminds me of a hog under a apple tree, you know. The apples will fall off, and beat him on the head all day long; he'll never look up, see where they're coming from."

L-45 And that, you know, we, I think it pays us to stop and look up, see where these things are coming from. Oh, how glorious it is to remember our Lord, remember what all He did for us, and remember that there was no one else could make this possible. There is nothing could make it possible but our Lord. And He so freely did it, when there was no worthy person; there was no prophet, there was no sage, no potentate, no monarch, no king. No one could do it but the Lord Jesus, Himself, and He so willingly did it for us. Let's just remember. He's done it for His children down through the age.


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