<TITLE>06. Par 56-64</TITLE>L-56 He come up and he said, "Good Master." See? "Master, or Teacher, what must I do to have everlasting Life?" Now, you see, he had found, in Jesus; though he had kept the commandments, though he had been loyal to his synagogue and to the cause, but yet he found something in Jesus that that produced Life.

L-57   Now, the law has no Life in it, at all. The Life... The law, pardon me, the law is only a policeman that points you to your sins, but it has no grace to pardon your sin. It only points you and tells you that you are a sinner.

L-58 And that has been twisted so that it's been brought over into Christianity, just a form, just to say that we should, and make a--a--a declaration of--of creeds or laws, by-laws of Christianity. And--and we have been very able, with intellectual beings, to present this to the world. But, you see, we don't find them taking it like they should, because it hasn't got Life in it. See, we, we must find something that... Every man is looking past the curtain from that, somewhere beyond, that he come from, and knows he's got to return someday. Everybody wants to--to see that, wants to know what is beyond that.

L-59   A very beautiful picture. Jesus said, "When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man." Did you notice He never said, "When he's cast out of a man"? But when he goes out by his own will, "When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, and he returns back to this man and finds that the house that he lived in has been swept, garnished, then he goes and gets seven other devils, demons, unclean spirits, and enters into this man, and the last estate of this man is seven times worse than it was at the first." Did you notice the devil went out by his own will, and he returned by his own will? Now, if this house had already been occupied, when he returned, he would not been able to get in. But, you see, he just found it swept and garnished.

L-60   It's a very beautiful picture of a moralist, as we would think today of a man that's a--a... tries to think he's going to Heaven just because that he quit gambling, or maybe he quit running with the woman that wasn't his wife, or stopped his drinking, on New Year's Day, and turned over a new leaf and joined church. See? You see, he doesn't, he really isn't converted. He's just a moralist. And the--the devil using moralists just to--to go out and--and make a foolish representation, when, really, the real power of the living Christ isn't there. See, they--they...

L-61   The world is wanting to see Christ. Jesus said, "I am the Vine, ye are the branches." And the branch bears record of the Vine, because it draws its energy and Life from the Vine. Well, the first Vine, first branch that came from this Vine, it, they wrote a Book of Acts behind that branch. We see the way the Holy Spirit acted in that first church, that church of pentecost. And then when we--we believe that if this original Vine ever puts forth another branch, they'll write another Book of Acts behind it, because it's the same Life that's in the Vine.

L-62 And if the first branch put forth a bunch of grapes, and then we find a bunch out here that's got watermelons growing on it, or pumpkins, or cucumbers, we know that it isn't the--the life that's in the vine.

L-63 Therefore, I think, even where we would call ourselves "Pentecostals," has failed to represent the--the real thing that Christ has set forth for us to represent, the--the Holy Spirit and the Life of the Spirit. See, we represent sometimes sensations, and we represent joy, but, and--and that's good, but there is more to it than that. There is a fruit that goes with it, that the hungry man is looking for this fruit of the Spirit, and this is the quality that was in Jesus.

L-64   Because, Jesus wasn't just an ordinary man. Jesus was God. He was nothing short of God. Not just a prophet, yet He was a Prophet; He was the God-Prophet. He was the--the house in which all of God dwelt. "In Him was the fulness of the Godhead bodily."


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