<TITLE>08. Par 58-65</TITLE>L-58 They perished, all but three of them, and that was the ones who held on and believed the promise. When the weakling said, "We cannot take the land, and it's too much for us," and so forth; Caleb and Joshua stilled the people, and said, "We're more than able to take it, because God promised it to us! I don't care what the opposition is!"

L-59 And we still can preach Divine healing, and the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and still have power of God to separate us from the things of the world. God said so! The apostolic age has never ceased, and it will not cease, it goes on.

L-60 So, we find the same old sower of discrepancy. And remember, that sin was never forgiven. Now, brother, if it was never forgiven then, what about now when the--the real seed of all the ages is coming together?

L-61   Notice this great thing that Balaam did, it went on and on, and finally ended in the coming of--of Judas Iscariot, and Jesus. What was it? Judas and Jesus was just exactly a figure of Cain and Abel. For, as Judas was religious, so was Cain religious. Cain built an altar, he made a sacrifice, he worshipped God, he was just as sincere in it as the other one was. But, you see, he didn't have the revelation of what the Word was. He thought it was Adam and Eve had eat some apples or some fruit. And Cain... Abel, by revelation, knowed that was wrong; it was the blood that brought them out, and he offered a lamb. And God testified his offering was right. Then he got jealous and tried to kill his brother. And as he killed his brother upon the same altar that his sacrifice died on, the lamb died upon the altar, so did Judas Iscariot betray Jesus Christ upon the altar of God, and killed Him just as Cain killed Abel. Because, Cain was the seed of discrepancy.

L-62 And so was Balaam, the hireling prophet, a man who ought to knowed better. And God warned him through signs and wonders, and even a mule speaking in unknown tongues, and still he went right on just the same. He was borned to be a--a sower of the discrepancy.

L-63   And if Jesus predicted this age to end up in the greatest discrepancy that ever was, the Laodicea church age, lukewarm, that put Him out of the church, how can it be anything else but that discrepancy! Certainly, it is. It ends in that age.
And it was Cain and Abel again on Calvary.

L-64 Now notice, as ever, as soon as Jesus went away, went into Heaven, the Holy Spirit was sent back. That was the Seed, the Life-giver unto the Word, as we spoke last night. It's the One that quickens the Word. Quicken means "brings to Life." The genuine Holy Spirit only brings to Life the Word that It is. It won't bring a creed to Life, It can't, because It's nothing of the creed. It is the Life of the Word of God, for It is God. See? And It quickens that Body.

L-65   Now notice, as they did. Then, and the Bible said, and--and John spoke to his children and said, "Little children, you have heard of the antichrist which was to come into the world," said, "which already is in the world, and it working in the children of disobedience." Now, that was along about thirty years after the coming of the Holy Ghost. We find, when the Holy Ghost come, the real Seed, the real Life-Giver to the Seed, then here comes that discrepancy in again. And notice, on it went. It had...


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