<TITLE>13. Par 126-136</TITLE>L-126 You can't be a secret boy about It. No, sir. You've got to have It! You've got to have It on display. That was the purpose of putting it on the doors, so He could see it on the lintel and on the doorpost. It's something you're not ashamed of. You want the whole world to know that you are dead, and your life is hid in God through Christ.

L-127   Talk about a Thanksgiving Day, I tell you, not a tradition, not at all. We got too many traditions now. What we need today is a refreshing, a baptism of the Holy Spirit back in the church; not a celebration, but a filling. Then that ought to be our Thanksgiving Day celebration, as we would call it. It ought to be the Holy Spirit coming into our lives. If we could eat a turkey like our forefathers eat, we ought to receive the Holy Ghost like the forefathers had. Amen. Not a tradition, but a commandment from God. We should receive It.

L-128   Look at Joshua, and you read Joshua, the 2nd chapter. I've got wrote down here, "Read It." I haven't got the time. But I want you to know, when Moses and Joshua were on the road through the wilderness, coming to the exodus, they sent out some ministers, spies, to go spy out the land. And remember, there was a Gentile over on the other side of the river, by the name of Rahab. She was a harlot. Poor kid was a streetwalker, perhaps turned out by her family. But we find out that when... She seen those men and knowed that they were men of God. She was a harlot, and she wanted to know if there could be any mercy could be granted to her.

L-129 God gives mercy to those who call for mercy. All that call for mercy shall receive mercy.

L-130   Notice this harlot, she said, "I'll show kindness." Watch, she didn't have to see Joshua. She didn't know the way he combed his hair, the clothes he wore. She said, "I have heard that God is with you." That's all she wanted to know.

L-131 And I tell you, today, brother, it ain't how you comb your hair, or what you do, or what kind of clothes you wear, what kind of a Ph.D. you got. "I hear that God is among you," that's the main thing. We want to know where God is among this.

L-132   Watch the organizations. Look where they're going to. Is God among the organizations? If it is, then He's leading them straight to the Council of Churches, and back to the mark of the beast. God is not in that.

L-133 God is in His Word, for He is the Word. That's exactly. "I have heard." And faith cometh not by hearing the council, but the Word. Hearing the Word!

L-134 They seen this, and they knowed. She knowed it was the truth. She asked for mercy, watch, for both her and her family. She asked for her and her family, just like they did in Egypt.

L-135   Notice, there was given to her a token, a red token. That the scarlet string that she let the people, the spies, down out of the window, was to be a token. God would not, destroying angel... God's destroying angel would not come near her as long as she had that token. But, and what if she'd say, "Oh, I let them down. I done--done a good deed. So now to keep anybody from criticizing me, and seeing this scarlet rope hanging out here, I'll pull the rope back up"? Then the... the judgment angel would have never passed over her house. She had to have the token displayed. It had to remain there.

L-136 Hallelujah! Oh, it means "praise our God," in these hours. Remember this. I'm not in here for a living. I'm not in here preaching for a living. No, sir. I can work for that, yet. I don't do this for that. If I thought that there was any other way besides this right... Remember, this is I, I've got to meet God. It's my soul. It's got to be me. It's not only me, but I'd have more condemnation. The Word of God is God. That's God's program that's laying there, and that's the Truth.


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