<TITLE>26. Par 210-216</TITLE>L-210   Listen to me now. "When He..." (not a thought, He is a personal pronoun) "When He the Holy Ghost is come (the Spirit of Truth), He will reveal these things to you that I have said unto you, and will show you things to come." That's the Great Shepherd, That's the Shepherd Jesus left. And the Holy Ghost wrote the Bible, the Bible said so, "Man of old, moved by the Holy Spirit, wrote the Word." Now, could the Holy Spirit pull you to a creed? Could It pull--pull you to something that this Word doesn't say? Why, it'd be totally impossible. The Holy Spirit would be a liar if He said that "This is what you should do," and then turn around and say, "No, It was a mistake, and you do what the church says do."

L-211 Now, if you've been listening to something, another's pulled you away from the real, true Shepherd that'll lead you to the Word, the Holy Spirit, and you do not have the experience, and do not have the witness of the Holy Spirit in your life, which without...

L-212   God is One. God is the only one that has Eternal Life, and He is Eternal Life. And anything that had a beginning has an end. And if you're just a member of a church, it had a beginning. But the Word of God has no beginning, God has no... And when you are borned of God, you're borned of the Word, then you become a son of God, and your name was put on the Lamb's Book of Life before the foundation of the world. And you, the color of hair you have, the color eyes you have, the statue that you're in, God seen you before the foundation of the world. And He seen you, a human being, like you are. And though there come a million years yet, there's nothing can keep you from coming back to that perfect image that God ordained for you in the beginning, "My sheep hear My Voice, a stranger they will not follow."

L-213   And if you haven't accepted that Eternal Life, tonight, and you're looking at a--a--a fiction story of a little baby laying in a--a--a manger, and a bunch of wise man around, don't you believe such things as that. And trying to think, "Well, I'll be good. And I'll do this. And I'll join church. And that's all I need to do." You're lost. If you haven't got Eternal Life, how can you ever live forever?

L-214 You can take a grain of corn, I don't care how perfect it looks, you can man-... Science has manufactured one, that you can cut it open: it's got the same kind of a moisture, the same kind of heart, the same materials that the grain that's growed out of the field has, the same thing. You could put them in the laboratory, and you can't tell one from the other one: one will make just as good of corn bread as the other, one will make the same kind of corn flakes. But the only way you can tell them, is bury them. The one that man made, stays there, it rots and it never comes up. But the one that God made, has a germ of life, it lives again.

L-215   You might imitate a Christian, you might go to a church like a Christian, you might put your name on the book like a Christian, you might join a denomination like a Christian; that would be all right, but unless that Eternal Life is in you that that Good Shepherd gave His life for, to separate... When God came down at Pentecost, He came down in a ball of fire like He did on Mount Sinai, like He did to the first shepherd, Moses. And when He come down, He separated Himself in tongues of fire that set upon each of them, God separating Himself into His people. And except you have received that which... Peter said that "It's to you, and to your children, to them afar off."

L-216   Friends, don't you listen to any theological myth, you be borned again. And when you are, the Spirit that's in you is part of God, and witnesses to every Word of God being "The Truth." If you haven't got that experience, let us now hasten to the manger, the Word. Let's hasten to the Bible, away from these decorated theological-termed churches, to a real manger, to God's Word where the Messiah is made known.
With our heads bowed, let us pray.


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