<TITLE>16. Par 121-130</TITLE>L-121 What a pity it is to see, today, that they try to feed sheep, slop. But a sheep won't eat it. No, sir! See, they was trying to feed sheep, back there, slop. And when the Word come, they had been so used to slop, they didn't know the Word. And that's what it is today, when the same thing vindicated and proved that God would do a certain thing. Then they so used to slop, and slop-fed, till you... well, there isn't no talking to them, they just won't listen to It, that's all. The dog... Bible said, "As a dog returns to its vomit, and a hog to its wallow, so do they."

L-122 Hear the Word, and go back right to the same old wallow! And say, "Ah, It's fanaticism. Don't believe such a thing as that."

L-123   God... sheep does the same today, they must trust in the Word diet. They will not take any other diet. You can't give them an ecclesiastical diet, a real sheep. No! No! You go tell them, "Now look, we'll all be together. Now, Jesus prayed that we all might be 'one.'" You just heard the same thing at Tucson not long ago, a few days ago, but it's a lie! Jesus never prayed... How did He... How can you make the Word condemn Itself? Backfire on Itself, then God's no more than any other man.

L-124 Jesus said, "How can two walk together 'less they be agreed?" How you going to take Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, and Catholic, and throw it all together and be one? You might be one under man's head, but Jesus said, "That they might be one even as--as I and You are one." Now, He wants us all to be one in Him which is the Word! Amen! There it is, "One with the Father." And the Father is the Son, is the same. And it's the same Word, the Word manifested, displaying Itself in this day as It did in any other day, that you might be one.

L-125   Notice, He said, "As the Father sent Me, so send I you." The Father that sent Him, went in Him to confirm the Word. And the same Jesus that sends His people, goes in the people that He sends; and saying, "The works that I do, shall you do also." Sure, He prayed that we might be one; one with Him, not one with an organization. Not one with a system, but one with God. For God in His Word is one, and Jesus and God was one, and you and I and the Word must be one. That's right. We must be one in agreement with the Word. Not what somebody else says, this is no private interpretation. Take It, what It says, and believe It; and God will vindicate It, and prove that It's right. You think It's just for disciples only, take His Word for it, go try it once and see. You'll find out that it will work for you just the same as He promised. Yes, sir!

L-126 They won't eat on slop, they have to have a sheep diet. Saint John 10 declares that, "My sheep know My Voice." And if He is the Word, then what kind of a Voice does He have? "My sheep know My Voice, strangers they will not follow." See? Jesus said, "A strange voice they would not follow." So, His sheep doesn't follow a stranger's voice. They won't follow them.

L-127 Prophets, shepherds, and sheep, all testify of the coming.

L-128   Now see the unchanging God in His unchanging plans of His Word this day. Now just think a few minutes: the unchanging Word.

L-129 Now look! If--if Moses would've come with Noah's message, it wouldn't a-worked. If John the Baptist would have come with Moses' message it wouldn't work. If Jesus would've come with Moses' or Noah's message, it wouldn't work. And Wesley come with Luther's message, it wouldn't a-worked. If the Pentecost come with the Wesleyan message, it wouldn't a-worked; we just heard that testify. Now, God just keeps moving. Just watch the Word, you see where we're at.

L-130   Then why should not the shepherds' first announcement... If all these prophets, all these great man were shepherds, then why should God (the unchanging One) change His method right here, and bring It to theologians? It was shepherds. The arrival of the perfect Lamb, the sin-offering, should come to the shepherd.


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