<TITLE>21. Par 195-207</TITLE>L-195   Now, He, He was this Word. Now, after this, He was tested. Jesus' testing. Now we're going through these.

L-196 See, it doesn't reflect the Word when anybody says, "Well, That was for another age," 'cause the Bible said He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. How the Holy Spirit in you could say that you are a filled with the Holy Ghost?

L-197 Now can I hurt you a little bit? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Is it all right? Raise your hands. You won't be mad at me? ["No."] If you do, you have to be.

L-198 How can you women, with bobbed hair, tell me that you are filled with the Holy Ghost? One Word! "Oh, I spoke in tongues." That don't make any difference. I've seen witch doctors speak in tongues, interpret, shout in the spirit, dance in the spirit.

L-199 How can you man call yourself the head of the house, and let your wife wear shorts and carrying on the way she is, call yourself Christians?

L-200 How can you pastors ever face God with a thing like that, without standing up and protest it? You can't make them do it. But you get to preaching like that, you won't belong in the seminary very long or with a group. You'll have to get cooperation from somewhere else. We'll get into it, just in a moment, the Lord willing. See?

L-201   But there you are. Don't, I don't mean to hurt you. I love you. That's the reason. If--if you were floating down the river, and I seen you was going to drown, I'd be a poor fellow, say, "Well, be a good person, honey." You better warn them. That's right. Tell them!

L-202 As I said the other night, if I'm a Christian, I have to be identified with every character of the Bible. I had to stand with Noah and preach with him, in the days, and warn the people. That's right. I had to stand on Mount Carmel, alone, with Elijah. I had to stand at Calvary, and be crucified to myself and my own thoughts, with Him. But then again, I raised with Him on Easter, triumphant over all things. All the carnal of the carnality of the world, raised above it, in Him.

L-203   Notice, it doesn't reflect the Word then, no, it doesn't vindicate It. Now, but if you believe the Word, God will vindicate It, Hisself, as He did here in Jesus.

L-204 The Word Bread always means to be fed on. "And man shall not live by bread, like this bread, alone, but by every Word." So that's the Word Bread, keep that in mind, this is this Bread that the church through every age has fed on, has been the hidden Manna just for the overcomer only. Revelation said so. Now I don't have time to break this whole thing down, because I probably got another thirty minutes. But, look, when the holy--when the holy manna fell from Heaven, which was a type of the Holy Ghost. You'll agree on that.

L-205 God told Moses to go out and get an omer full of it, and put it in the Holiest of holies. Cause, if they didn't put it in the Holiest of holies, it become stagnant. Is that right? The worms got into it. Now he said, "But put it in the Holiest of holies, in this omer, that every generation coming up after that priesthood, when a man becomes to go to be a priest, to minister the Word, the first thing he gets to do, after he is ordained, is go in and get a handful of that original manna and eat it.

L-206 That was to represent that Light in His hand, in the new church age, reflecting his Light, the Manna; and only the man that perfectly overcome, the man that really sets down and throws aside everything else besides the Word. And the Word is that Manna. Oh, my, it's Jesus! "Man shall live by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God." That's the hidden Manna for the overcomer, oh, that was laid up each--each, for each priesthood a following it.

L-207   The schools of theology, long ago, has swapped this blessed Thing for a mess of pottage. That's exactly right. Yes, sir.


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