<TITLE>31. Par 308-316</TITLE>L-308   Noah waited a hundred and twenty years. Abraham waited twenty-five years, on the child. God said so, and that settled it. See? What is it? The Word was there being watered by faith, believing It, it brought forth the results. It brought forth a son; it brought forth the rain; it brought forth the flood; it brought forth the virgin that was conceived.

L-309 A prophet said, "A virgin shall conceive." No doubt but what every little young girl went and got her baby clothes ready. Well, this prophet Isaiah was identified prophet, vindicated of God. And the Lord said, "A virgin shall conceive. I'm going to give them a supernatural sign, a great sign; a virgin shall conceive."

L-310   There, all them people, them believers, just like you all. And they heard that prophet say that, every little girl... Every man said, "That's going to be my daughter. Yes, sir." Everybody went and bought the booties and the birdeye and everything, getting ready, 'cause they knowed she was going to have it. That generation passed, and they thought, "That identified prophet, vindicated of God, how could he tell anything was wrong? It must be so!"

L-311 It was eight hundred years later, but she brought forth the baby. "Heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word shall not pass away."

L-312   "And it shall come to pass in the last days," saith God. See, here we are, the--the Light over the Word. As the light of the sun changes the seed from glory to glory, we also became--become more like Him as we live in His Presence; like Him, being conformed to His blessed image as we walk with Him.

L-313 Watch what the sun does. You plant a seed, what happens? That seed rots. Inside the seed is a life. The life comes forth and brings forth a stalk. Now, that don't look like the first.
There is Luther. It was a stalk. All right.
The stalk went on and, the first thing you know, it brought forth a tassel. See, that was the Wesleyan revival; wasn't like the other.
Then along come the Pentecostal revival, see, brought forth the baptism of the Holy Ghost. All right.
What happened? We get fungus on the ear. It begins to look wrong. This thing, that thing, it don't look like the Word. It's not like the rest of It. It's not like the original Grain went in.

L-314   But God is still there to make that--that just the same. Notice, what does it do? It finally returns back to the original Seed again. When He come in the form of Martin Luther; when He come in the form of John Wesley; when He come in the form of the Pentecostal; He is supposed to reveal Himself again like the same Seed went in, the Son of man. He revealed Hisself as Son of God, through the stalk age and so forth, but in this last age He's to reveal Hisself as Son of man again. Get it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] All right, like the beginning, molded!

L-315   And what does that stalk grow? It's growing all the time. That little stalk grows, still it's not like the original grain. Neither was Luther's message; no, along come the--the other messages, Finney, Sankey, Knox, Calvin, on down, none of them. They were still the message but, what it was, they didn't get the complete Revelation of It 'cause it wasn't time. You can't put the ear on the corn before it's time to come. See? And then, finally, there comes back again the original Seed that went into the ground.

L-316   See God follows nature exactly. See, He was born a lamb, that's the reason He was born out in a manger. Lambs are not born in beds. See, He was led to the Calvary. Lamb, sheep are led. That's right. Goats lead them to the slaughter, you know that, a slaughterhouse. A goat leads them, but they have to be led. Huh! That's right. So He was led to the slaughter, see, because He was a Lamb.


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