<TITLE>04. Par 27-37</TITLE>L-27 Identify yourself, tonight, in your present state now where you're standing, with some Bible character. Where would you been if you had lived in Noah's time? Where would you have been? Where would you been in the days of the Lord Jesus when He was here on earth, in His flesh? What group would you be identified with, tonight? Just think of it. See? What group would you been identified with, when Paul was correcting them back there in Corinthians for the things they were doing? What group would you be identified with? See? Just look back. It's a looking glass. We can see where we, what... Whatever we were, we are now, that's what we'd have been back there. Because, the spirit that's in us now, identified back there, that that's the same spirit was on them back there. My!

L-28 That ought to shake us and make us get out of our--our slumber that we're in, lukewarm. But you know the Bible says we have to get that way, so that He can spew the whole thing from His mouth. Did He promise it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] We all know He promised it. And He will do it. The whole church is to be spewed from His mouth.
Then, out of the church comes the Bride. That's the Elected.

L-29   Now, Jesus had gone from His home and was staying with Martha and Mary and Lazarus. And one day, you know...

L-30 He said, in the Bible, He did nothing until the Father showed Him what to do. Saint John 5:19, Jesus said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself; but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise." And if you pattern that Scripture, we had time to break it down so it would, it looked right, to you. You just run right... It just weaves through the entire Bible. And every verse in the Bible has got it in it.

L-31 The Bible is in continuity. Every Word blends together. There's no contradiction in It. It all runs together. If you get a contradiction, you got (it) out of the Bible, because the Bible doesn't contradict. It's in continuity, continuity, completely. Notice.

L-32   Now this, Jesus, when... He was the greatest gift that God ever give the earth, the world. "God so loved the world," John 3:16. Now, people had faith in It.

L-33 Always, God's gifts are looked down upon, by the modern religious moves. Look back at any time, in the days of Elijah, in the days of Moses, the days anywhere you want to. Wherever it is, it's always looked down upon, always. It never changes.

L-34 And then we see there, also, that, in that day, when God using Jesus...

L-35 Now, there was a time that a woman used the gift of God, through Jesus. She touched His garment, and Jesus admitted that He didn't know who did it. Now, I don't believe He was just... He joked or went on. I believe every Word that He said was meanful, had a meaning. And He said, "Who touched Me?" He didn't know. And He looked all around, over the audience, until He found the woman with that faith, and told her about her blood issue had been healed because of her faith. Now, that was the woman using God's gift. Now, you see, that one woman using His gift, He got weak from it.

L-36   But look at this case here, when He raised Lazarus from the dead. There wasn't nothing said about Him getting weak there. How much more was it to call a man, whose soul was four days journey away, and corruption had done set into the man's body! His nose, perhaps, in four days, had already fell in. And there He was, called him back to life again, and he lived, and eat, and drank, like any other man. How much greater was that than it was the woman touching His garment! But that was God using His gift. See?

L-37 Now, that's the difference here on the platform. Now, if you would follow the--follow the service and be out, sometimes, how It tells things that'll happen, well, years before, weeks before, months before, where to go, what to do. That's God using It.


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