<TITLE>11. Par 80-86</TITLE>L-80   Like the little Welshman said. Or, one time when they had the Welsh revival going on, there was some dignitaries from the States. Some of these great Doctors of Divinity went over to Wales, to find out where and what all this was about. So they had on their turned-around collars, and their plug hats, and they was walking down the street.
And here come a little cop along, whirling his little old billy club in his hand, a whistling, "Down at the cross where my Saviour died, down there for cleansing from sin I cried; there to my heart was the Blood applied, glory to His Name," walking down the street.
So they said, "This seems to be a religious man. We'll go ask him."
And they said, "Mister!"
Said, "Yes, sir?"
He said, "We are here from the United States. We're a delegation. We come over here to investigate the Welsh revival, so-called. We are Doctors of Divinity, and we're here to look it over." He said, "We want to know where the revival is, and where it's held."
He said, "Sir, you have arrived. I am the Welsh revival." Amen! "The Welsh revival is in me. Here is where it's at."

L-81   That's the way it is when you live by that Fountain of living Waters. It's living all the time, bubbling over and over, and over and over. There is no end to It. Not, "Go see if some water, if we had a rain here not long ago," that's not it. It's that Fountain of living Water. As I say, It gives Its Water free.

L-82 You don't have to put rags on It, to find out; some educational rags, 'fore you can send him out to preach, and see if he spells his words right, speaks them right, if he uses his nouns and pronouns, and so forth, and adjectives. Many of them don't even know what they are, but he's living at the Fountain just the same, see, the same.

L-83   It don't have to depend on the local rains, to fill it up, or the local revivals, for it. It don't have to do that, for its Power and its purity is within itself. That's where the Word is, Its Own Power! When a man can receive It in his heart, It's got Its purity. It's got Its power. It's right in the Word Itself, springs forth the Life.

L-84 Israel would get away from It, they would get in trouble. Every time they got away from It, they got in trouble.
The same as we do now. When the revival gets away from That, then it's no good. It digs itself some wells, and, or some stagnated cisterns, and there it goes.

L-85   But He always helped them. The murmuring at the Red Sea, then when they murmured... Yet, in all that, He had promised, made them a promise. He should have turned them back right there, the way we would look at it; but He had promised to take them over there.
What did He do? Them children of Israel, He furnished them the Pillar of Fire and everything, for a vindication, their prophet. And they led them out there to the sea. And, always, there is trouble against It. And here come the Pharaoh and his army. And you know what God did? He just opened up that red, stagnated cistern.
The Dead Sea is the deadest thing in the world. It's really dead. It's stagnated. Nothing can live in it.
And He opened it up and set them free, on the other side. He took them to where they wouldn't have to be bound by such a thing as that.

L-86   In the wilderness, they found that the tanks could not be depended on; they were dry. Found out, they go from one water hole to another. When they was in the wilderness, they was starving to death, for a drink of water. And they would go to this tank over here, a pond; it was dried up. They went to another place; it was dried up. They just couldn't think they was ever going to get a drink.
And then on the most unlikely place in all the desert, they found the water. It was in a rock. It was in a rock. The most unlikely place that a man would find any water, would be in a dry rock in the middle of a desert. But, you see, God does things like that. In the most unlikely place, in the most unusual way. That's what we've always had.


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