<TITLE>13. Par 128-141</TITLE>L-128 You're looking to what you know did happen. Look on your target. You see where they hit it. If they hit it in that day, He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Focus out all these creeds and things you got mixed up. Get right back to the Word, then confess your unbelief, and let God take His Holy Spirit and direct your sights right straight on Jesus Christ. We're looking to Him then, not what somebody else says.

L-129   Not even what the doctor says, as good as it might be. He's got his place. The church, as good as... It's got its place. We don't deny that. But it's got, all got its place. It'll fire, but it won't hit the target.

L-130 "Only them who look for Christ the second time." That's the zero. It depends on what you're looking at. Yes.

L-131 Now, today, you see, faith is designed to do this. Same faith today sees the same thing. A faith of the Church today should see the same program of God. I want you to don't miss this now. The Church today, that's called of God, will certainly see the program of God, because the program of God is written out Here, the Blueprint. And the Holy Spirit, by faith, is the One Who reads It and sets It together.

L-132   Then how could a man say he's filled with the Holy Ghost, and the Holy Spirit say a certain way to do something in the Bible, and this man comes around, said, "Oh, well, that's fanaticism"? Could the Holy Spirit, be the real Holy Spirit, deny Its Own Word? [Congregation says, "No."--Ed.] No. It has to stay with the Word because It's God. See?

L-133 What are you looking at? What are you seeing? We must see Jesus. And the only way we see Jesus, see the Word. This is the--the natural Symbol of the Spirit. You know what I mean? It is the Letter that the Spirit quickens. See? That is the Letter, that, and the Spirit quickens this Letter and makes It a reality. Yeah.

L-134   Moses looked by faith. And the man today who sees God's program, does the same thing, looks by faith.

L-135 Moses, later, seen this great thing. When the people got in trouble, what did he do? He made a serpent out of brass, put it upon a pole. And said, when they were bitten by serpents, because of their unbelief, that, "Whosoever looked upon this serpent lived." Notice. The man who just come and looked...

L-136 Now, the stick, the pole it was on, was a piece of a tree that was cut down there in the wilderness, probably a piece of mesquite, or--or something that you'd have here, ironwood, or whatever it might be. It had done been separated from its natural growth. It was dead, within itself. The brass was probably a piece of helmets from the Romans, or--or something that they had took in the salvage. It was molded and put together, and made a serpent.

L-137   If men come out there, just as an idol, to look upon that serpent, they received nothing.

L-138 But when the true believer come out there and looked upon that serpent, with the spiritual revealed Truth... That serpent itself, being it was in the form of a serpent, it represented sin already judged. They seen sin, their unbelief, already under judgment, from the serpent from the garden of Eden. And the serpent was made out of brass, which means Divine judgment. See?

L-139 The altar was made out of brass, brazen altar, which the sacrifice was offered upon; brass, Divine judgment.

L-140   The great prophet, Elijah, when he looked up to the skies, in the days of his ministry, the three-and-a-half years, and there was no--no water, at all. He said, "The skies look like brass." What was it? Divine judgment upon a disbelieving nation, of the message of God, that their faith was so dim, could not see it in that day.

L-141 I wonder today, if we see all the hydrogens and oxygens, and the bombs and the things that we have created, wonder if we don't see a nation, a time, looks like brass. It's Divine judgment.


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