<TITLE>05. Par 38-45</TITLE>L-38 And the Word is just like the--the North star, it's a true star. No matter which a way the world is a floating, that North star is centered with the earth. You set your compass to the North star. It's always in the center of the earth. Other stars float around with the world, but the North star stays stable.

L-39 Now the compass is the Holy Spirit, and (the) your--your tie post would be the North Star, so the Holy Spirit will always point towards the Word. The Holy Spirit will never lead you to anything else but the Word of God. So how could a man accept a creed, when it's contrary to the Word, and then still say he has the Holy Ghost? The Holy Ghost would point you away from that. It takes the Holy Spirit to point you to the Word, for He is the Word. He is the Word, and It can only... As the--as the magnetic in the compass is only set towards the North Pole, that's the only way it can draw. And when the Holy Spirit is the Author and Writer, and the quickener of the Word, how can It point the person to anything else but the Word?

L-40   So when a person says they have the Holy Ghost, and accept something contrary to the Word, it shows that ain't the genuine Holy Ghost they got. See? It may be a ghost, I wouldn't dispute that, but it--it isn't the Holy Ghost of Christ. Now, you know, many times, they take one another's spirits; and so that might point, in like a group of man, to a certain thing, but it won't--it won't point to Christ. But the Holy Spirit always points to Christ, and Christ is the Word.

L-41 We see this so plainly in the Bible. Or, I do. Maybe I might be wrong, but, in my thinking, but I don't think so; because, that, this: "Lean not to your own understanding of things." If you lean to your own understanding, then you're bound to get off of the right road. You can't lean to anyone else's understanding, when it comes to Life. To find Life, you've got to lean to the Word. That's Life.

L-42   We see this, from the beginning. It's so plainly made known to us, from the beginning, that God gave His first family on earth His Word, to live by. Only His Word, was to live by. Now, that's not through eating the food, and so forth. But His Word they were to live by, Eternally. And as long as they kept that Word, they lived Eternally. But the first little phrase of that Word was misplaced, the whole chain broke, and the human race plunged into death. See, now we notice.

L-43 Eve, which was no doubt an intelligent person; the first right off of Adam, who was the--the son of God. And Eve, certainly being in that spot where there had been no sin, no place for sin, she certainly must have had a wonderful conception of what God was. Because, every afternoon, she and her husband walked in the cool of the garden, in the evening, and talked face to face with God. What a--an unreasonable thing that a person who would walk face to face with God, each day, and then would turn to the reasoning of something that reasoned her away from the Word of God!

L-44   We still got them. They so easily be reasoned away from the Word of God, after sitting in the Presence of God. Seeing the Word of God preached, the Word of God made manifest, drunkards and sinners come to the altar and be converted and made new creatures in Christ, people of ill fame made ladies and gentlemen; and then to turn from that blessed Thing that led them to this Life, and then be perverted off after some kind of a creed, to become more popular or--or get into what they will call a better class of people.

L-45 Why, you're in the best class that there is: sons and daughters of God. Well, I like that company better than I would with all the kings and potentates, and everything else. Give me that humble bunch of people, if they don't know their right hand from their left! As long as they know God, and love Him and serve Him, that's the celebrity of Heaven, to me. Yes, sir!


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