<TITLE>20. Par 205-213</TITLE>L-205   I was talking to the cab driver, was bringing me over. He said, "Well, the only way I can tell, when I see a man around here acting sane, I know he's a stranger." See? Now, that's one of your cab drivers said that. Said they'd... way.

L-206 It's just not only here, but it's everywhere. The end of everything; how cruel, men, and all kind of wicked things, and that they're doing. The world is perverted. Look out on the streets. Just look at it, oh, my, everywhere! Not only in America; everywhere, why, it's a--it's a modern Sodom.

L-207 There is nothing to be left, but burnt up. And, that's all, it'll be cleaned off. God will do it. His laws require it. It's got to be done that way. When a corn stalk has lived its life out, its got to be destroyed. When a flower lives its life out it's got to die. And civilization has lived its time out. The church age lived it out. The denominations lived it out.

L-208   This is a uniting time. There is a United Nation, united church, and united effort. What's it a sign of? Christ and His Bride uniting. That's what it is. It's all shadows and types. Everything wants to be unionized, so it's a sign. Christ is fixing to unite with His Bride, a Wedding Supper taking place in the sky, so it ought to throw the church into action when we see the signs of His here at hand. Oh, my! All these things are signs to us, everywhere. Oh, we should be in action!

L-209   We, like the prophet of old, Isaiah, we see what self-exalted men come to. We see what, these organizations that rise up and say, "Well, because you don't belong to us, you're not even in it," we see what happens to them. What do they lose? Just like they're stricken with sinful leprosy, with unbelief, they--they lose their hold on the Word of God. Some of these people try, they exchange, lose their hold on the Word, and swap It for creeds. What do they get theirself? A mess of leprosy. That's right.

L-210   Like Uzziah of old, trying to take the place of anointed office, and haven't got nothing but a doctor's degree, or something. God ain't looking for doctor's degree; He is looking for humble hearts, somebody that'll believe Him. But we have took men and educated them to bishops and everything else, cardinals and whatmore, educated them enough to hold a Divine office with an education of carnality. We need the baptism of the Holy Ghost, to take that office. The Holy Ghost is our Tutor. He is the One that makes Hisself known among us, the sign of the hour, the last days. But we, like Hezekiah, exalted up, they just think they can take their places.

L-211   Look what the effects of the vision did to the prophet. Now, he was a prophet. He was a vessel for the Word of the Lord to come to. He was chosen, borned a prophet. Finally gave his life, sawed up to pieces with a saw. But we find out that this great prophet, when he saw this vision from Heaven, and saw the order, how God was preparing His men, why, it caused the prophet to confess that he was a sinner.

L-212 And we want to be so big, and wear some kind of a big turned-around collar, some kind of clothes, you know, that makes us look so holy and reverent. There is no holiness with us. We can't be holy; holiness is of God. See? Certainly. It ain't a holy church, ain't a holy mountain; it's a holy God. That's right. Not holy people; a holy God! It's God in the people. Peter referred to the Mount Transfiguration, "the holy mount," it meant the holy God was on the mountain. Look at it now, see. But it was a holy God there, the Presence of God, what made it holy.

L-213 It's the Presence of God in our midst now that brings holiness, not my holiness, not yours, but His holiness. His Presence is what brings the holiness. We ought to humble ourselves, cover ourselves in reverence, humility, and say, "Lord Jesus, receive me into Your Kingdom." His holiness, not ours. Holy Spirit!


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