<TITLE>13. Par 96-103</TITLE>L-96   I said, "Here is the creek." See? I brought him up here and baptized him in the Name of Jesus Christ.
Some of his people are setting here, and I--I know they felt funny at me for doing that, but I knowed what I was doing. I seen in the man something that was genuine. I could see it there, and I took him and baptized him in the Name of the Lord Jesus.
And, when we did that, it wasn't long after that till I was went down to his son's house. We seen a--a vision of a tree being broke at a certain place, and the man fell, almost broke his back. Took him in the hospital. And that night the Lord revealed, to me, that was the end of cigarettes.
So the next day he wanted some cigarettes. I said, "I'll buy him a carton and take it to him. You just watch and see, his cigarette days are done." He's never smoked one since, and never wanted one since. God!

L-97 See, the first thing you've got to do is to come to that Fountain. You've got to come to that Water, realize it's nothing that you can do. It's what He done for you. You don't have to dig; you don't have to pump out; you don't have to quit this; you don't have to quit that. The only thing you have to do is get there and drink. That's all. If you're thirsty; drink!

L-98   Now, He was the Rock. God smote Him for us, and He gave forth abundance of pure, clean water. He does yet, today, to everyone that will believe. This is His grace, of course, to His people, us.

L-99 There is something like there, like the people of today, ready to receive what they can get, but don't want to give any service in return. Israel was ready to--to drink from the rock now, but they didn't want to give God His service that was due Him.

L-100 And He's always giving us a service. You know, we can't even breathe without Him. We can't breathe without God's service. That's how dependent we are on Him. And, yet, it almost breaks us in two if we try to do, have to do something for Him. He asks us to do something, go see somebody, go pray for somebody, go help somebody, it's almost breaks us up, to do it. But we don't want to do anything to Him for service.

L-101   His complaint was, "They have forsaken Me, the Word; and have accepted a broken cistern, instead. Accept... They have forsaken Me, the Fountain of Life, the Fountain of Water of Life; and they desire and would rather drink from a stagnated cistern." Could you imagine that?

L-102 Could you imagine a person now, that, here is an artesian well just putting out that fine, limestone water, right out of the heart of the rocks, down there in the sand beds, and so forth, just as cold and good as it could be; and would rather drink out of a cistern over there, that had washed off the top of the barn, and the sheds, and all of the out-buildings around the place? And put it right into that cistern there, where the seepage of the water drains right back into, from the barn, the stables and stalls, and everything draining right back into the cistern, and then we want to acce-... would drink out of that before going to that artesian well? There would be something mentally wrong with the person. That's right.

L-103   And when a man or a woman will take a denomination on their stand, that'll permit bobbed hair, wearing shorts, makeup, all this other kind of stuff, and some little kind of a--a program, and all this carrying on, and can go to the bowling alleys, and--and all that nonsense out there, and can put up with that; and like that better than they do the old-fashion Word of God that cuts down and hews out, and makes ladies out of women, and takes and makes them dress right and act right, takes cigarettes and tobaccos, and swearing and cursing, and lying and stealing, away from you, and all the world away from you, and give you Something that is a perfect satisfaction. Why do a man or a woman go to such a thing as that for comfort? How can you get comfort out of that?


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