<TITLE>18. Par 196-205</TITLE>L-196 If there is nothing in the heart to receive it, then there is nothing there. How can you get blood from a turnip? There ain't no blood in it. So how can a man believe when there is nothing in there to believe with?

L-197   But if the Holy Spirit is in there, quickly it catches that Word. It flies away, see, it gets It quickly. Now, "Sirs, we would see Jesus." He promised here to identify Himself among us, the same way that He did.
Now you say, "But how could He identify Himself?"

L-198 "Yet a little while and the world sees Me no more. Yet ye shall see Me, for I will be with you, even in you." It's the Holy Spirit that speaks through tongues and gives interpretation, the same One that saves you from sin. It's the same Jesus Christ, is come.

L-199 [A sister speaks in another tongue. Someone else begins speaking in another tongue, then a blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Three. [Another blank.spot.on.tape.] Praise be to the Lord. Did you notice that? Keeps saying, "Come out, come out, come out," see, calling out. All right, you hear what that is.

L-200   Now the Bible speaks, if there be some strangers here, the Bible speaks of speaking with tongues and interpretations, you see. So if it's spoke in tongues and interpreted, then it's prophecy. See, that's right, isn't it? It's prophecy.

L-201 Now come out. Now the Lord seems to be saying He is going to give you a chance now, see, something that you've never seen before, something that He is going to do. Now let's believe that with all of our heart.

L-202   Now we just, Billy and I, when we went to India this last trip, we... I've got a piece out of the paper. And it said, "The--the earthquake must be over." A few days before we got there, they knew... See, India don't have fences like you have here, wire fences. They pick up rocks, and they make a lot of their buildings. They're a real poor people. And--and the little birds build their nests in these rocks, and then the cattle and sheep come in, of a evening, and stand around these walls, when the sun is a shining, to keep cool.

L-203 But they noticed, for a couple days, the cattle didn't come in, they stayed right out in the field. The sheep got together and huddled around one another, and leaned against each other, in the field, to keep cool. The birds all flew out of the walls. They didn't know what was going to happen. Then an earthquake struck, and it shook the walls down. Then the little birds come back and built their nests again in the piles of rocks, and the cattle begin to come in again.

L-204   Now, look, if that isn't the same God that could warn them to go into the ark, in the days of Noah! And if God could do that, and warn birds, by instinct; and warn cattle and sheep, by instinct, to get away from them big old walls that's going to fall. God is trying to warn His people today, to get away from these old ecclesiastical walls that's going to crumble in, one of these days, for the Coming of the Lord is at hand.
Let us bow our heads.

L-205   Lord Jesus, I feel that it's time for me to stop now. And it's Your time to speak, Father. I've tried to tell the people that You are the same yesterday, today, and forever. I've tried to prove it by the Scriptures, what You were, and how You identified Yourself.


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