<TITLE>09. Par 73-81</TITLE>L-73 Maybe I'll say it, make it a little plainer. When God speaks the Word, He doesn't need any man or any woman, or no one else, to say what That means. When He said... Well, you say, "God meant this." God means just what He says He means. See?

L-74 Now how does He interpret His Own Word? By fulfilling It. The Bible said, "A virgin shall conceive," she did. That don't need any interpretation. God said, "Let there be light," and there was. That don't need any interpretation.

L-75 God said, also, that in these last days, "He would pour out His Spirit upon all flesh," and He's done it. That don't need any interpretation. That only needs an acception, somebody to accept what God has done. It doesn't need an interpretation. God interprets His Own Word. God promised the things that we see, day by day, that He would do it in the last day.

L-76   People today, like it was then, they lean upon their own understanding. "My pastor says that that's 'fanaticism.'" But the Bible said it would happen. Whose understanding you going to lean upon?

L-77 The Bible promised in the last days, that, "The Laodicea Church Age would get so rich, and get so in suffic--... or in a sufficiency of their own, 'I am rich. I have need of nothing. I set as a queen.'" And she is rich. And He said, "Thou knowest it not that you are miserable." Now that's the entire church age, the church! "To the church of Laodicea, you are naked, blind, poor, miserable, and don't know it." Sitting in her riches, ten thousands times ten thousands, and thousands of members, wealth of the world in her hand, almost. Putting it all together, to date, with the Catholic church and the Protestants, together, as they're going together, they got the wealth of the world.

L-78   We are busted in this nation, just about. We are borrowing on tax that'll be paid in forty years from now, they tell me, so they said on Life Line. Taxes, we're spending now, will be paid forty years from now. My little grandson, if Jesus tarries, the taxes that he will pay when he is forty years old, we are spending on it now. Sending to foreign aid, and our own Indians and things starving to death; trying to buy fellowship. You don't buy fellowship. You don't buy a friend. No, but that's what we are doing. That's the way we, are set up, taxing people to everything they can get onto, tax, tax, tax. And we'll not be out of war debt for--for hundreds of years yet, I suppose, that we been throwed into by politicians. And now we shouldn't be that way. There is no reason for us to be that way.

L-79 But the churches, themself, has become rich. "Pretty near the wealth of the world," says the Bible, "lays in the Catholic church." That's why Russia run her out, why Russia excommunicate her. That was the very grass roots of communism, because the church taught to be something, there wasn't no more from the rest of the world.

L-80   When we was up there in Finland, that little boy was raised from the dead. There stood them Russian soldiers at attention, and they said, "We will receive a God that can raise up the dead."

L-81 We have made denominations, and schools and--and buildings, and failed to do what Jesus told us to do, was "Preach the Gospel." We've tried to educate the world. He never said, "Educate the world; he that's educated shall be saved." You've got to be born again, filled with the Spirit. That's the reason we have so miserably failed, everywhere. See, we got the wealth, we got the thing.


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