<TITLE>14. Par 92-96</TITLE>L-92   How many of us is in It this morning? How many's willing to forget your traditions, how many's willing to forget your creed that disagrees with the Word? Why ain't we got a revival? Why haven't we got these things going on? What's the matter with Pentecost? It organized itself. That's it. You can't organize Pentecost. You can make an organization. But the pentecost is a blessing, it's the Power of God. And if it's a genuine pentecost, it'll never bypass the Word for a creed. It'll take the Word. Right, because it's circumcised from the world and the things of the world. It sits only on the Word of God, and believes It. We're in Bethlehem, candidates for the Kingdom of God. We're eating God's Eternal Life Bread. Born, God Bread, born in Bethlehem, to become the spiritual Bread of Life, of Eternal Life, in the house of God. Oh, my! Born in Bethlehem, we are, this morning, when we're born in Jesus Christ, for He is God's Bethlehem. Jesus is God's House of Eternal Life Bread.

L-93   He also is our Water for the journey. Now, we know that He is the Water. Like Israel in their journey, either they smote a rock and their bread come down out of Heaven, but a rock was smitten so that they could drink from it for the sustainings of their life in the journey. God smote a rock, or had Moses to do it, His prophet, smote the rock. What was it? Open the rock. If... The Rock was Christ. Do you believe it? All right. Then if the prophet opened the rock so life could come out, then, if it is the Rock today, we need the Holy Spirit in some man who will smite back the Rock, amen, and let the Word come out, because He is the Word.

L-94   We've bypassed on creeds and drinking stagnated water from cisterns. What we need today is an opening of the Word that lives, and He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. He cannot fail. They can call it mental telepathy, they can say whatever they want to, or spiritualists, or--or a devil, as long as that Word is flowing free and producing exactly what It said It would do, It's a Fountain in the house of David again, back in Bethlehem, where that Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, forever, to His Bethlehem dwellers. Live with It, live in It, it's Life-journeying Water for us as Israel had.

L-95   One of great David's great experiences, if you want to read about it in II Samuel 35:15, beginning, we read out there that David, being born in Bethlehem, but yet he become a fugitive. Oh, what a sight! The Philistines were garrisoned at that time, in the land, because Saul, the great man that brought all Israel into sin, had fell away from God and become an enemy to God, and had--had been garrisoned, the Philistines were garrisoned around Bethlehem. And David, trying to get back to his own home, could not do it, was out in the wilderness because he had become a fugitive to the people, or, there was ousted.

L-96   What a beautiful picture that is of Christ today, a fugitive. He is. Now, you say, "That can't be." Well, if you believe the Bible, it is. The Bible said, in the Laodicean Church Age, that Christ was on the outside of the church, knocking [Brother Branham knocks on the pulpit--Ed.] trying to get back in His own church. A fugitive is something's been refused, rejected. And the Word and the Holy Spirit is rejected. That's right. You can't get in there. If you ever receive Him, you got to get out of there to get Him. You got to go out to Him. He can't get in. They're so set on their creeds that they--they won't let you preach them things, they won't let you believe those things.
They say, "You believe He's the same?"


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