<TITLE>02. Par 9-18</TITLE>L-9 When you're up there, everything is fine, and when you're down here. It's--it's in between, when you're coming out from under it. You ought to ask the manager and some of them who try to walk you around at night, after one of those lines of discernment. Oh, my, you don't know whether it's everything is a vision, or what's taking place. It's, you see, everything. Everything you look at, you--you don't know whether it's really a vision or what it is. You just... And you're the one that's doing that. See? You're--you're the very one that's pulling that.

L-10   I was explaining it to the pastor, today. It's like a little boy trying to look through a hole in a wall, to see a circus. He pulls up by his hands, and looks through, and can maybe see like a giraffe or a camel, and drop back down. And say, "What else did you see?" Well, it almost kills him to go up again, to see it. But then, after a while, if someone could come around and pick him up, raise him up, and say, "Here is the way it goes. The--the garland starts here, and the grand is this way, and it comes out over here." Sits him down. Why, it doesn't bother him.

L-11   That's the way that God was in Christ. Now the woman that touched His garment, just a little woman in the time of menopause, she was having a blood issue. And she couldn't... doctors couldn't stop it. And she touched His garment. And He turned around and said, "Who touched Me? Virtue went from Me." See, that was the woman using God's gift. She pulled God through Him. That was the woman doing that. She took the privilege of using God's gift.

L-12   But, when Lazarus died, He said He did nothing till the Father showed Him. And after, He went away for a while, and--and they sent for Him to come pray for Lazarus. He did not go; He went to another place. And then they sent again. And He didn't go; and put it off, went to another place. And finally turned, said to His disciples, "Lazarus sleepeth."
Well, they said, "He does well."

L-13 Then He talked in their language, "He is dead. For your sake, I'm glad I wasn't there." See, the Father done told Him how long it would be, 'cause He said He didn't do nothing till the Father showed Him; and then how long it would be, and what would take place, and for Him to go back. Just listen. "But I go wake him." See?

L-14 And when He got down to the grave of Lazarus, He prayed. He said, "Father, I thank Thee that Thou hast already heard; but I just say this for those who are standing by." He knew what was going to do, and He called Lazarus from the grave. There wasn't one thing said about virtue going from Him. That was God using His gift, and the other was the woman using God's gift.

L-15   Now, you can't manufacture a vision. It has to come from God.

L-16 So your faith is what does it. Faith is the only thing that God will recognize, in the being, is faith in His promised Word, and you do that yourself. It's your faith that does that. But then when a vision comes, sometimes, a vision that God would give about going somewhere, why, sometimes it lasts for hours, never does bother me. But it's these kind that hurts, then you come back and you wonder where you're at.

L-17   I think William Cowper, I believe, was his name, wrote There Is A Fountain Filled With Blood. I stood by his grave, not long ago, in London. I just had to cry a little, because I felt sorry for the man. He was a poet. And he, when he went up in the inspiration and wrote them songs... Well, when he come out of that, he--he tried to... he got a--a driver and tried to find a river, to commit suicide, and it was so foggy they couldn't even find it. See, he was--he was lost, he had come from inspiration, back down to earth again.

L-18 What does it all mean, friend? That truly there is a Land beyond the river, just have to climb up to see It. So we know it's going to be someday that we're going to go to that Land. That's our great Hope.


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