<TITLE>15. Par 111-117</TITLE>L-111   He is that Rock that was in... That was Hagar's Rock, in the time of trouble; when her baby was about to die, when she had been put out of the camp, and was out there with little Ishmael. Her water, in her cistern that she was packing with her, had give out. And she laid little Ishmael down; and walked over, a bow shot, and cried, and, oh, because she didn't want to see the baby die. And all at once, the Angel of the Lord spoke, and she found Beer-... Beersheba, the--the well there that was flowing, and still flowing to this day. He was Hagar's Beer-Beersheba, Rock out there in the wilderness.

L-112   It was standing here in the Fountain filled with Blood, that day, standing there in the temple. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... time of storm. In Zechariah the 13th chapter, He was that Fountain opened in the house of David, for cleansing, and for (sin) cleansing of sin. He was that Fountain. And in the Psalms 36:9, He was David's Fountain of Life. He is still that Fountain in the house of David.
And He is the poet's, in his heart there. Poet said:
There is a Fountain filled with Blood,
Drawn from Immanuel's veins,
When sinners plunge beneath the flood,
Lose all their guilty stains.
He is that Fountain of Life, Fountain of Water. He is the Word of God.

L-113   People of these last days has forsook Him, the true Word, Water of Life; and has hewed themself out denominational cisterns; and, again, hewed, dug!

L-114 And now we find out, they have had broken cisterns. And then this cistern is filled with unbelieving germs, unbelieving boasting, educational programs, and so forth, which is contrary to God's promises. They are doubters of the Word.

L-115   Now, these cisterns that they've got, the Bible said, were "broken." Broken cistern is a "leaking" cistern, and it's seeping out. What's it doing? It's seeping out into a religious cesspool called the World Council of Churches. And that's where the broken cistern is leading them to, all because they have forsook Him, and have... the Fountain of living Water; and made these cisterns.

L-116 Digging out big seminary systems of learning, education, and so forth. That's the kind of cisterns they're digging today, that a man has to have a Ph.D., or an LL.D., or a Bachelor of Art, or something, before he can even go preach. Cisterns that has been filled with man-made theology. They take them into these great big schools of learning, and in there they inject into them their own man-made theology, and they send them out with that. What a day that we're living in, man-made cisterns! No trouble the... No wonder the thing has become a--a stink, oh, my, it's because that the people drink from that.

L-117   And when the people want joy today, what do they do? The people, instead of accepting the joy of the Lord, they turn to sin, for joy. People who go to church and claim to be servants of Christ, when they get real nervous they'll light up a cigarette. And when they--when they want to--to have some fun, they stick on their immoral clothes and go out and cut the grass when the man is going by, to get them to whistle at them. They do everything to be popular. They want to look like the movie stars. That's their joy.
When, Jesus said, "I am their sufficiency."
The reason that they go to that, because they don't want to drink from that Fountain. They have turned It down. They don't want to drink from It. They join themselves to some kind of a man-made system, some kind of a cistern that's full of all kind of stagnated things, that they can go like that.


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