<TITLE>12. Par 118-134</TITLE>L-118   God uses an individual. Two men will never see the thing alike, so God can only get one person in His hand; then through there, like Moses and through Daniel, and through the different prophets. And listen.

L-119 You say, "Well, what about the Holy Spirit?" The Holy Spirit doesn't change it.

L-120 Look, the Word of the Lord comes to the prophet. John was the prophet of the hour. He was standing in the water, declaring that the Messiah was already among them, somewhere. He would know it by a sign. And when the Messiah, being the Word, He came into the water, to the prophet, the Word coming to the prophet!

L-121 Jesus said, in these days, He said, "He," which is a personal pronoun, "He the Holy Ghost, when He has come upon you, come to you, He will show you these things I've taught you, and will show you things to come." Remains the same thing, the Holy Spirit is the Prophet among us today. The Holy Spirit is the Prophet.

L-122   Daniel was a prophet. The words of God, the Bible, was invested to Daniel, to manifest to the people that God still lived. And Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile his investment.

L-123 Oh, if the church could only do that, if the church could only purpose in your heart that you won't defile your investment with any tie up with things that brings you into a system that will take you away from Him!

L-124 Daniel purposed in his heart. And what did it do? It saved his life from the lions.

L-125   The Hebrew children made an investment in God, that they would not break His commandments, no matter if they made an image of their holy brother, Daniel. Which, I believe the image was of Daniel, 'cause he was Belteshazzar's god, and we find out that he made an image to this holy man. No matter how holy the man was, they wasn't to bow down to any form of image, no matter what the image is. The Gentile world was issued in by worshiping a holy image, it's going out in the same way, and you see the system doing it today. So the Hebrew children would not bow to any image, and you find out that their investment paid off by saving their life.

L-126   Now just a few moments, we find another fellow by the name... he's a commercial businessman, a businessman that had a commercial job. He--he was a fisherman. He was called Simon. And his brother was Andrew. His father was called Jonas. No, I beg your pardon. Yes, it was. I believe that is right.

L-127 And so we find out that this fisherman's brother had been attending a baptist revival, John the baptizer. And he had, this baptizer said, "I haven't got It, but It's coming."

L-128 It would be a good thing if our organization, and me being a Baptist for a while, would do the same thing. Yeah, It's coming. If you... It'll have to come from Above. It's a promise.

L-129 And one day this baptist, or baptizer, announced, "There It is, right among you."

L-130 It so elated Andrew until he went and got his brother, the fisherman.

L-131 He was so busy in his business, till, one morning he might have attended a--a breakfast. I don't know what he attended, it was down by the shore. And when he did, he walked up into the Presence of the Speaker, and the Speaker said, "Your name is Simon, and you are the father... Jonas is your father."

L-132   Right quick, that member of the Sanhedrin, that member of a great ecclesiastical body, that had read his Bible and knowed that the very man, Moses, that they had been following, had told them that, "When Messiah come, He would be a Prophet." He listened to what the Word had to say, regardless of what the ecclesiastical system was he belonged to.

L-133 Could not we, today, listen to the same Man, Jesus Christ, Who told us what would happen here in the last days?

L-134 And as he come to this Man, and He told him who he was; not only he, but his godly old father that was gone; quickly he invested in this policy, Eternal Life, and become the bishop at Rome, at the church. Nathanael, after...


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