<TITLE>20. Par 185-194</TITLE>L-185   See, that don't reflect the Word of God, when a seminary student tells you, "The Holy Ghost is not for today. And these things, all that Divine healing stuff, for some other day." See, it's not a reflection from God, it's a reflection from a--a creed. It's a reflection from a doctrine that's outside the Bible.

L-186 Hebrews 13:8 said, "He's the same yesterday, today, and forever." Saint John 14:12, said, "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall He do also." Now how you going to take that Word out of there, how you going to add something in Its place? You break the chain of Life. Man lives by Bread only, the Bread, Eternally he lives by that Bread. Physically, he lives by this bread. There is the two breads. The Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit is in you, says "amen" to every Word of God, if that is the Holy Ghost. Now I want to ask you something. Now this is a pinching part.

L-187   Mama used to give me castor oil when I was a kid. And I--I can't stand the smell of the stuff, yet. See? We was raised poor, and mama boiled meat skins and render them out. We get them down at the... from an old sister named Goodwin, that had a bakery down there, and she baked hams and things, and rendered that out. We'd get meal, and take that grease and stuff and make our cornbread. And we had poor eating, no wonder we had malnutrition and so forth, plaguery. But mom then, every Saturday night... We--we didn't get the right kind of food, so she would make us all take a big dose of castor oil. And I--I'd just hold my nose and scream, I said, "Mom, that makes me so sick." She said, "If it don't make you sick, it don't do you any good." So, so maybe that will work this a way. Now how...

L-188   I'm going to ask you something. How can a man or a woman who claims to be filled with the Holy Spirit, which is the Word (that right?), and how can you be the flesh of that Holy Spirit, has made you part of Him, to reflect the Gospel of your age, and deny the Word that He wrote?

L-189 I don't care how good you are. Why, I can take you to Africa, to the--the Hottentots there, and show you a life that a Christian can't touch. Even if they would be caught in adultery; if one of the women, before she is married, a young woman, she has to be tested first for her virgincy. If she be found guilty, she has to tell what man did it, and they're both killed together. What if that happened in the United States, who would bury all the corpses, see? So, so there you are, see. And they are heathens, see the morale. See, so you can't test it by that. Our Indian brother here can tell you now, the Mohammedans probably live a lot better life than we ever think about.

L-190   But what is it? It's the Word that gives the test. Them Pharisees was twice as humble as Jesus. He went around tearing up their churches, and throwing them out, and beating them out, and everything like that.

L-191 And this godly old priest, you know, why, who was... If I was having a meeting against Him, this morning; I'd say, who come to you when you were sick, pray for you? "That godly old priest." Who loaned papa that money when his crops failed? "That godly old priest." Who dedicated you to God, for a life of service? "That godly old priest." Who was it, when you was in jail, come and visits you? "That godly old priest." And this young renegade called Jesus, what does He do? Called your pastor a "snake"! See? See, it's not by the fruits.

L-192 It's by the Word. "Man shall not live by fruit alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God."

L-193 And He was that Word. They just fail to see It. That's what He was supposed to do. They couldn't see it, because they wasn't ordained to see it. Said, "You can't come to Me." Look at them poor Jews, their eyes were blinded. Sure, He did it. He blinded them, Himself.

L-194 Think of how it would be to be blinded. You better be thanking God for what sight you got on the Scripture. Now notice.


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