<TITLE>07. Par 65-75</TITLE>L-65   What if they told the Pentecostal fathers back here, fifty years ago, that they had the Word interpreted wrong, there is no such thing as speaking in tongues? They didn't stand still for that. God interpreted His Own Word. Peter said, on the Day of Pentecost, "Repent, and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." How could they get away from that? It interprets itself. See? Don't need no interpretation.

L-66   And, today, this age that we're living now, there is a Bride Tree coming forth. See? Truly, the Tree has come up.

L-67 And they, soon as they organized, they couldn't step any farther. And what happens? They organize and go out on this limb, then the limb is pruned. According to Saint John, 15th chapter, He prunes them off. They're never used no more.

L-68 But in the heart of that Tree comes forth the fruit, right in the top of it. When the Tree is fully matured, it can't go no further; right in the top. The last church age is here. She's come into full mature. It's a Bride Tree. Jesus was the Tree of Life from the garden of Eden. Do you believe that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] He was the Tree of Life.

L-69   There was a tree in the garden, and one of them was, if you touched it... Now we have our differences on that, so I won't go into it, but let's say it was a tree of disobedience. And as soon as they touched that tree, all people was to die. And They had to put them away from this other Tree; 'cause, if they eat this Tree of Life, they would all live, knowing right from wrong. That's right. You know that, as ministers. We have our ideas on that, and we'd probably differ what the tree was.

L-70 But we can all know that Christ is that Tree of Life. For, one day at the jubilee there, when they was drinking and rejoicing, Jesus said about the Water, He said that He was "the Rock that was in the wilderness."
They said, "Our fathers eat manna in the wilderness."

L-71 And He said, "And they're, every one, dead. But I am the Bread of Life, amen, that Tree of Life that come down from God out of Heaven. He that eats this Li-... this Bread, shall never die." That is the Bread of Life.

L-72   Now, to make the mockery out of it, the Romans hung Him on a tree. "Cursed is he that hangs on a tree," to make a mockery out of the Son of God. He was despised, rejected. He came from the highest of Heaven, and become the lowest on earth. When He was here, He went to the lowest city. The smallest man in the city had to look down to see Him; Zacchaeus. He was give the lowest name. He was treated the worst, and hung on the... died the cruelest death that could be died. That's what people thought of Him. That's what the world thought of Him.

L-73 But God lifted Him so high till He has to look down to see Heaven; give Him a name above every name, that everything in Heaven and earth is named after Him. That's what God thought of it, see. If we are sons of God, the attributes of His thoughts before the foundation of the world, we'll think the same of Him. And remember, brothers, He is the Word. See? The Message always follows the phenomena.

L-74 Jesus, as a young rabbi, as He started preaching, healing the sick, everybody wanted Him in their church. You know that. But that was just the phenomena, what He had, is producing, He caught the eyes of the people. But one day He set down and begin to speak to them, there come the ministry to follow the phenomena, then nobody wanted Him then. It's too bad, but it--it just repeats itself. You'll understand from there on.

L-75   Let's read in the blessed old Bible here, just a little, for a little talk this morning, the Lord willing, let's read out of the Book of Joshua, the 10th chapter, and beginning with the 12th, 12th verse.


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