<TITLE>23. Par 222-231</TITLE>L-222   There is a lady sitting right next to her. Her name is Mrs. Harris. She is a total stranger to me. But when the Spirit struck this woman, she also in sympathy with her. And she comes from California. That's right. And she has got trouble with her shoulder. That's right. Do you believe that God will heal you? If that's true, raise up your hand so that the people can see; total stranger.

L-223 Lean not to your own understanding. What can do that? You can't explain that. That's a paradox. It's beyond explaining. Ask those people; I never seen them in my life, never knowed nothing about them. It could just go on through the meeting.

L-224 But, now look, don't lean to your own understanding. But lean to what He promised, that He would do that; if that isn't the same Spirit that was dwelling in human flesh, that knowed that Sarah laughed in the tent, behind the Man. Is that right? And He promised, just before the world was destroyed with fire, when the Son of man would reveal Himself again in like manner, as the--the Son of man (prophetic) would reveal Hisself in human flesh like He is here with us tonight, as He did then. Now what hour are we living in? Just near the destruction.

L-225   Friend, don't stand in here, no longer, a sinner. Accept Jesus Christ while you're in His Presence. Now, I know, usually it's customary for ministers to make pleas and tell stories, about mother that's dead and gone on. That's all right. But we don't come upon the basis of our mother being dead. My mother is dead, too; my father, also. But we come up, intelligently, accepting upon the basis of God manifesting Himself in Jesus Christ, to take away the sins of the world. We come and believe upon the Atonement. And while He has a vindicated His Word...

L-226 I don't care what church you've gone to, Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, Presbyterian, or no church at all. If you will admit that you have understood it different, and know that you really never have been born again, but you want to be, and want to accept it now, the promise now. You might not be filled now, but you will be filled when the... as the meetings goes on. You want to accept it upon those basis, would you stand up to your feet and let me offer prayer for you right where you're standing. Everyone in here that knows...

L-227   Don't lean on your own, well, say, "I've spoke in tongues." Now, that don't have nothing to do with it. I believe in speaking in tongues, too.

L-228 But I've seen witches, devils, and everything else, speak in tongues and interpret it. That's right. Ask missionaries down here, we can find out, Brother Creech, and you know that's right. I've seen them speak in tongues, and drink blood out of a human skull, call on the devil. Sure. I've seen them lay a pencil down, and it would get up and write in unknown tongues; and the witch, wizard stand there, interpret it.

L-229 So speaking in tongues is no sign you got the Holy Ghost. If that, and if you speak in tongues and deny this Word, there is something wrong somewhere. Right, uh-huh, right. Don't lean to your own understanding.

L-230 Somebody now, you say, "Well, I shouted it." I do too. But don't lean to that.

L-231 I've seen all kinds of demon powers shout and scream. I've seen Mohammedans shout and scream till, they worked theirself in such a place, they could run splinters through their hands. In India, I've seen them scream and jump up-and-down, take balls of water, with hooks in it, and push it through their skin and walk on hot fire coals, right, denying Jesus Christ.


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