<TITLE>22. Par 226-236</TITLE>L-226   How that that trick of the Devil, how sly he was in there, how he--he moved in there to kill those children. And how that the intellectual mind picked it up and believed it, because they could see it! It was reasonable. Oh, how God was, all the time, training this prophet! And how Egypt was training, in politics, this Raamses, to take over! And then the great contest came, one day, between intellectual and spiritual power. And Raamses, with all of his gods, was standing out there and pouring water in, to--to bless the god of the Nile. God struck him, and blood flew out of him. He had... Oh, I--I thought it was striking, see, to see what taken place. Oh!

L-227   Now watch. The intellectual will always goes to a reasoning. And it can't see the spiritual side, because it's intellectual. Oh, neither could any other time! They can't see it now.

L-228 They couldn't see it in the days of Elijah. How could this one old fuzzy-faced prophet...
God forgive me for saying a thing like that. But I--I miss-make... And God knows I'm trying to make--make it as ridiculous as I can, so that you can see the--the Spirit of God.

L-229 Like Paul said, "I never come to you, speaking with enticing words and wisdom, for your minds would drift off to the wisdom. But I come with the power of the Holy Spirit, that your--that your--your--your hope and trust would rest, not in the wisdom of man, but in the resurrection power of Jesus Christ."

L-230   That's why I'm making this so ridiculous, by calling the great, godly prophet, "with a fuzzy face." Because, he might have been an--an awful-looking thing, to stand up, side of a well-dressed priest, and call hisself a man of God.

L-231 Look at him. You could see the holiness of that priest, in the intellectual mind. You could see the turban on his head, and the turned around... and the ephod laying on his bosom here. You could see the anointing oil, natural, upon his beard, running down to the hems of his skirt. You could see the sacrifice fires burning, and all the rituals in order. Now, that's what the natural mind would have went to.

L-232 That's what they're trying to do today, the eye, the gate to the soul. But, you see, the spiritual eye back in that eye!

L-233 They looked at this old fuzzy-looking man standing there, hairs on his chest; and a great, big piece of sheep skin wrapped around him, of leather, a girdle over his loins, with, probably barefooted, little old skinny arms, the meat hanging down this a way; and a white, flowing beard all over his face; and a crooked stick in his hand, standing there. But the spiritual eye could see the power of God moving out there, 'cause it was exactly with the Word. Not what the intellect sees; what the spiritual eye sees!

L-234   And the--the natural eye, today, sees a glamorous church, a fellowship with the mayor of the city, or--or whatmore, in these denominations' organization. And they fail to see the power of the Holy Spirit, when It can raise the dead and heal the sick. And--and--and how... See? They, they look, and they watch Hollywood, and they watch the people on the street.

L-235 The women, today, think, "Well, this woman, Susie, she belongs to the church. She's got her hair bobbed. She wears make-up. Everybody in town likes her."

L-236 I wonder about Heaven? See? When it's contrary to the Word, God can't endorse it. He, He would be endorsing against Himself. He would be denying His Own Word. And be it known, God will never do that, though heavens and earth pass away. A bobbed-hair women is a curse, in the sight of God, or a woman that will put on a garment pertains to a man. See? The spiritual eye catches It; they live for Hereafter. The natural mind lives to reason the carnal things of the day.


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