<TITLE>08. Par 62-67</TITLE>L-62   Now, when in the time of the--the travel of Moses; when God, by grace, had given them a prophet, had given them a Pillar of Fire to go before them, had vindicated It by signs and wonders. Grace had provided all these things. Israel still wanted, saw law. They refused grace, to take law.
That's exactly what the people does today. They refuse the Word, to take a denominational system, because in that they can do what they want to and get by with it. But you can't do it in Christ! You've got to come clean and clear, in order to be in Christ.

L-63   Leaving the artesian well, for a man-made system or cistern, could you imagine someone doing that? Could you imagine the mental conditions of a person that could drink at a fresh artesian well, and would leave that for a man-made cistern with frogs, and lizards, and wiggle-tails, and everything else in it?
It don't seem even sensibly to be right, but that's just exactly what the people has done. They've left the Word, the true Fountain of God's source and Power, to drink out of cisterns, and make themselves cisterns. Same as they did then, they have done it now. They say...
He said, "They've left Me." Here He said, here in Jeremiah 2:14, or 13, rather. He said, "They have left Me, the Fountain of living Water."

L-64   Now, we see what a cistern is. We see what it catches. We see how it's made. It's a man-made thing that comes off of a dirty roof. The water that falls down, hits on a dirty roof, and it only washes the roof off, puts it down through a man-made trough, through a man-made spout, into a man-made tank. And all the filth gathers in there, and the--the germs, and the lizards, and frogs, and things of the land, like that. And, notice, they are the unclean animal; wiggle-tails, stagnated. A wiggle-tail can't live in clear water. If it does, it'd kill him. He's got to be in the stagnation.

L-65   And that's the way it is with a lot of these parasites today. You can't live in the fresh water of the Holy Spirit. That's the reason they're so firmly against the Word, and say, "It contradicts Itself. There is nothing to It." Is because they have to have some kind of a stagnated pool to wiggle in. Right.
That's the same way it is with frogs, and with lizards, and with tadpoles, and such as that. They've got to get around the swamp or the stagnated pool, to live, for it's their nature to live there. And you can't change the animal till you change its nature.
And you cannot make a man see the Word of God till his nature has been changed; and when his nature is changed from what he is, to a son of God, and the Holy Spirit comes into him. The Holy Spirit wrote the Word of God!

L-66   Today I was talking with my good friend, Doctor Lee Vayle, who is present now. And he's quite a theologian, and so we usually have some--have some pretty good discussions on the Scripture. Very smart.
And he asked me one time what I thought about the initial evidence of the Holy Ghost, "Was it speaking in tongues?" It's been many years ago.
I said, "No; can't see that."
He said, "Neither do I," said, "though I've been taught that." He said, "What would you think would be an evidence?"

L-67 I said, "The most perfect evidence I can think of is love." And so we got to talking on that.
And then I thought that sounded pretty good so I just held that, "If a man has got love."
But one day the Lord, in a vision, straightened me out. And He said, that, "The evidence of the Spirit was those who could receive the Word," neither love, nor speaking in tongues, but it's receiving the Word.


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