<TITLE>16. Par 171-181</TITLE>L-171 How Anna, the prophetess, blind, over in the corner, never parted, day and night; but the same moment, nobody told them, led by the Holy Spirit, that blind woman winding her way through the people, and stood by the side of Him, and blessed God for Him. If a woman that is physically blind, she was in a bad shape; but there is people in New York, this morning, that's blinder than that woman, and can see out of both eyes. But she was led by the Spirit, a Spirit of Life led her to the fountain of Life.

L-172   Because you thirst for That, there's got to be a Fountain somewhere. David said, "The deep, when it calls to the Deep, there has got to be a Deep to respond to that call." In other words, before there was a fin on a fish's back, there had to be a water first for him to swim in, or he'd have never had that fin. Before there was a tree to grow on the earth, there had to be an earth first for it to grow in, or there had never been a tree. And you see what I'm trying to say, if there has to be... Because you're hungering, this morning, because that people are thirsting, it shows there is a fountain of Life open somewhere, see, for you to respond to That. There has to be a Deep first, to respond to the deep that's calling, see, or that call wouldn't be there.

L-173   That's the reason people go join church and just put their name on the book, instead of being borned again, taking out the policy of Life. Then they go right out and try to hush that holy calls, by smoking, drinking, and--and gambling, and running out, immorally. See there? How dare you to try to hush that holy call of God, that God put in there to thirst after Him! You have no right.

L-174 I have the thing for you, this morning, it's Life. That's what you want. It's Life.

L-175 And that's perverted life. That's death. That's the place the Bible said, "She that liveth in pleasure is dead while she is alive." See? So you can't live in worldly pleasure and have Eternal Life.

L-176   The policy is right, friends. So, Nicodemus, he came to make an investment. He came by night, but he found the bank is always open. So it might be late, but it's still open. It's open, He, always, the--the bank is open to do business. And so he--he found Eternal Life, by coming to Jesus.

L-177 Let's investigate just another person, or two. Let's take Luke 24:49. The disciples had believed on the Lord Jesus. And now it was time of the promise, was drawing nigh. And so Jesus told His disciples, policyholders, that they were going to draw a dividend on this, but they must wait at the city of Jerusalem until He went to Headquarters and sent It back to them, till the check returned. He was going up, He had signed it in His Own Blood, and He was ascending up to send back their dividends, but to "wait" for their dividends.

L-178   Now, didn't say, "Wait five minutes, and be discouraged." If you've got faith in Who is talking to you, God talking to you, He said, "Stay until," (how long? a week, ten days, five days, whatever it was) "until you receive this remuneration, until the dividends. For, behold, I'll send the promise of My Father upon you. But wait at the city of Jerusalem until you receive It, until you're--you're endued with the dividends from on High, for your policy of believing on Me."

L-179 Oh, you Baptists, you Methodists, you Presbyterians! I don't want to get excited, but this is enough to make somebody excited. Why don't you wait there? You're a policyholder, but there is dividends on This.

L-180   Paul said, in Acts 19, to those Baptist people. I'm baptist, myself, I'm a pentecostal baptist. So they said, "Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?" Now, we are taught we receive the Holy Ghost when we believe, but he said, "Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?"

L-181 They said, "We know not be any Holy Ghost."
He said, "Then to what was you baptized?"
They said, "We already been baptized."


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