<TITLE>18. Par 184-194</TITLE>L-184   Now, the scene. Every spiritual happening is a sign from God. Be careful. Notice that, see. Watch, every spiritual happening, everything that happens, is a sign. We're not here by accident. These things just don't happen by accident. It's a sign. It's a sign, to get--get to safety, quickly. Noah was a sign to his generation; Elijah was a sign to his; John was a sign to his. See? Everything, the Message of the hour, is a sign. Watch It, look what It's doing. See? It's a sign. Everything has a meaning.

L-185 And no other time could this type of a Message ever happen. It could not have come in Luther's day, couldn't have come in Wesley's day, it wouldn't even come in Pentecostal day. It couldn't do it. See? There's no... been no such thing happen, and yet we was promised in the Bible. See? We're at the end. Nothing could happen, it couldn't have happened till this time. And it's happening for a sign. Wonder what is the sign?

L-186 Oh, little people, my brother, sister, get under that Token, quickly. See? Don't, don't take no substitute. Don't, don't, don't, don't do that. See? Don't just imagine It. You stay there until you know that the Token is applied, until (your whole) the mind that was in Christ is in you, until all the nonsense of the world is gone, see, until the whole heart's desire is Him. See? That, then, you know, then you know something is happening. Jesus said, "These signs shall follow them that believe," not make-believers, but believers. See? Now, we don't want to take any, any chance on it; you mustn't do it.

L-187   The Message of the hour is a sign to the churches. It's a sign to the people. Don't... are you, are you catching it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] I hope, on the tape, that they're doing the same thing, see, and other parts of the world. See, the hour sign is here. There is a Token that's got to be applied, and no other time could It have come.

L-188   Notice God's preparation for that time. Now, as we know that the Bible said, "All those things happened for examples, you see, to us." Notice, when God got ready to judge Egypt, first He made a preparation. What did He do at the first time? He never changes His order.

L-189 The first time, when He got, when He made His preparation, He sent a prophet with a message. First thing He done to His people was sent a prophet with a message.

L-190 The next thing He done, to identify this prophet, He sent a Pillar of Fire for identification, to identify it.

L-191 And the third thing He sent was the token. That's exactly right. The token, what was the token mean? Assurance!

L-192 First, His prophet with the message; He identified Himself among the... with a--with a Pillar of Fire with His prophet; then He sent a token, to get under this blood, that He had accepted this substitute death in your place. Then, the blood was a token that He looked, that you had heard the message, believed on the Pillar of Fire, and had accepted the substitutionary that He had provided for you, and you were under the blood of the very chemistry of the life that went out for you. My! What a perfect, what a perfect thing that is, see, you are under the blood.

L-193   Now you're under the Spirit, under the Holy Spirit. See? See? You believe the Message of the day, see, you believe the--the--the--the--the power, the--the--the Pillar of Fire. You believe that, see, and you do.

L-194   Now, now look, just to believe It is not enough. Not to--to... To walk around where It's at, isn't enough. See, that's to make yourself worse, "For he that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it's sin." See, those borderline believers, Jesus spoke of the same thing.


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