<TITLE>13. Par 141-151</TITLE>L-141   But if you let some ricky place it off on, with more education than he knows gumption enough to know how to control it, can stick it off on some age gone by, or some age that is to come, it'll be of non-effect to you. Like Jesus said, "You take your traditions and make the commandments of God of no effect," when you try to place God some historical God, or some pre-coming God.

L-142 "He's the same yesterday, today, and forever." He's just as much God now as He ever was. And if you can take that attitude, that that promise is unto you! Jesus said, in Saint Mark 11:22, "Verily I say unto you, if you say to this mountain, 'Be moved,' don't doubt in your heart, but believe that what you've said will come to pass, you can have what you've said. I say, when you pray, believe that you receive what you ask for, it'll be given to you." How much more promise could be made than That? You've got to believe it, because It is a seed. Now, if I...

L-143 If you ask me for an oak tree, and I give you an acorn, potentially you'd have an oak tree. It's in seed form. And when you want God in your life, just accept Him as your Saviour. Potentially, you are a full-statured son of God. You'll grow into the stature of God. Just like the acorn does, grows into an oak tree.

L-144   Now, you people here in Arizona, you raise oranges. First, it's a seed. The seed rots. "The seed, corn of wheat, must fall into the ground," as Jesus said about Himself. It's got to rot.

L-145 And the only thing that you can do is to--to... The only way, is to accept that germ of Life of God's Word, God's Own Life, and then rot to your own ideas. Let God do it.

L-146 It's none of my business to try to figure It out. I can't figure It out. I just believe It. He never asked me to figure It out. He never did say, "Did you feel It?" He never did say, "Did you understand It?" He said, "Did you believe It?" That's what it is.

L-147 Don't try to go to some seminary and get some of this indocumated embalming fluid put into you, of some social's creed. The thing you want is the baptism of the Holy Spirit, the--the incarnate power of God dwelling in you, that accepts this Word and makes It live out as It really is. Around and around the world, and before all kinds of people, I know that it's true. He's God.

L-148   Now, that little orange tree, if it's under... Now, when you plant it out, maybe when you get it, it's a little set, sprig, about so big. Now, you plant it. Now, that's all you have to do to it. You don't have to go and say, "Now, I've got to get me some oranges somewhere, and go to dumping into it." The oranges is already in it.

L-149 The only thing that little tree has to do. You have to keep plenty of water on it. And then the only thing the tree has to do is drink. And it drinks and drinks, till it drinks over its amount. And as it drinks, it pushes out limbs. And it drinks more, and it pushes out leaves. Drinks more, it pushes out blossoms. Drinks more, it pushes out oranges. Just drink and push, drink and push, that.

L-150 And that's you. When we are planted together in Christ, the only thing we have to do is drink from His promise, and push out. Everything that you have need of is in you when you receive Christ, 'cause Christ is in you. And you just have to drink from His Word, His Life, and push out. Oh, yes. I believe Him to be the Water that comes upon us. He's the Life. I believe He's the inexhaustible Fountain of Life, that we just planted in Him and push out.

L-151   Abraham received God in His Word, when he was an old man, seventy-five years old. Sarah was sixty-five. She was about twenty years past menopause. He had lived with her since she was about eighteen years old. His half sister; married to her. And God came to the old man one day, and told him he was going to have a baby by Sarah. And that Word, that Word, God in His Word! When God spoke that to Abraham, all reasonings of anything contrary to it left him.


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