<TITLE>17. Par 170-180</TITLE>L-170 I know we ain't got much more time, and the hour is here.

L-171 Friends, don't just come to the meeting, say, "Well, I really enjoyed it. It was a little hot, but I enjoy it." Don't do that.

L-172 Be sincere. Move into it. Make confessions. Clean yourself up. If there is little doubts and flustrations in your heart, don't even come in the prayer line. No, sir. I want clean. Our confessions is a roundabout way.

L-173   I had a woman on an interview here, a few weeks ago. And she said... I found in there where she had a baby, belonged to another man. And she had lived with two boys, and she had took this one boy and married him because she liked him better, and said the baby was his. And she knowed all the time it belonged to somebody else.
And she said, "I confessed that."

L-174 I said, "Yeah, here is the way you said it. 'O Deary, O Deary, what if you thought something, O Deary? You know, old John, old boy, old boy, what--what if I told you this baby belonged to somebody else? Hee-hee, you wouldn't believe it, would you?' 'No.' 'Well, what if it did? Oh, say, John, are we going out tonight to have some hamburgers?'" That's not confession. Get down on your knees!

L-175   That's the way people come to God. "O Lord, You're so good, You just let me do anything I want to." Don't you believe that. God has got a law you live by. Until you clean up, and wash out, and confess, and believe with all your heart, come back to the Word of God, you are still guilty. You can't do that.

L-176 You got to tear the thing down. People has got to come, godly, sincerely, get down on their knees and stay there until the results takes place, let that Holy Ghost power of God's love injects into your heart and makes you confess all your sins and all your unbelief, and accept Jesus Christ.
God has sent everything He could.

L-177   Watch how He proved it in the first time, like Brother Vayle was saying a while ago. See? How did they know He was Messiah when He seen the woman at the well? He told her what was wrong with her. Quickly, that woman in that horrible condition, living with six husbands. Said, "You've had five, and the one you're living with now is not your husband." Six husbands, six man on the string, she was running with, in that condition.

L-178 But when she was told, she seen That, the Word of God sharper than a two-edged sword, a discerner of the thoughts of the heart. She said, "Sir, You must be a prophet." Now, the Word of the Lord comes to the prophet, see, to reveal these things. Said, "You must be a prophet. We ain't had prophets for hundreds of years. But," said, "You must be a prophet. Now we know that we're looking for the Messiah, and, when the Messiah comes, that's what He will do."
Jesus said, "I am He."

L-179   And the people of the city, of that entire city of Sychar, every man believed Jesus Christ. He didn't have to do it again. He did it that one time, and every man believed Him because the woman said so. Her testimony, she had been changed so, they couldn't keep from believing it. Oh, give us men and women with positive testimonies, that will bring man to repentance again. They believed on the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, by that sign, He proved that He was the Messiah.

L-180 God, help me, by the same sign, with His Spirit, to prove that He is still the Messiah. Amen. Only by the Word of God shall we live. His promise is that He would do it.


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