<TITLE>12. Par 105-117</TITLE>L-105 And that's the same thing as it is today. It just hasn't varied a bit. Think how foolish of a man leaving an artesian well of pure clean water bubbling up, and then he want to go to a broken cistern that he made himself, and dig him out a cistern, with that trash that's up on top of the barn washing into it, then drink from that. There certainly is something mentally wrong with that person.

L-106   And when a man will cling to a--an ecclesiastical conception of the Scripture, instead of accepting the Holy Ghost which vindicates the Scripture and makes It real to you, there is something spiritual wrong with that person. That's exactly right. Sure, the Holy Ghost! Each one has an interpretation of their Bible, what you think is right. God don't need your help. God don't need your interpretation.

L-107 God is His Own interpreter. God does the interpretation the way He--the way He says He would do it. The Lord said in the beginning, "let there be light," and there was light. That don't need any interpretation. That's what God did. He said "a virgin shall conceive," she did. That don't need any interpretation. He said He would "pour out His Spirit upon all flesh," He did. It doesn't need any interpretation. God interprets His Own Word by vindicating It, and manifesting It, and proving It.

L-108   That's how a prophet was proven to be of God. He said, "If there be one among you, who is spiritual or a prophet, I the Lord will make Myself known unto him in visions, speak to him through dreams. And what he says comes to pass, then fear him; but if it doesn't, don't do it."

L-109 That's the same thing when God speaks His Word, and the man says, "The Word is This," and it happens that way, then it's God doing it.

L-110 But if he says, "It's this way, and the days are gone," why it takes all the... He reaches for a hungry bread, in his hand, to children, and take it away from them; and them starving. Why would you want to drink out of a cistern when this artesian well was there?

L-111 What is a fountain of Life now? What is the fountain of Life, fountain of living Waters? An artesian well, we would liken It to.

L-112   Now I want you to notice the difference between a cistern and a fountain of living water; artesian well, and an old broken cistern out there full of bugs, lizards, frogs, germs, whatmore, see.

L-113 And here is an artesian well. Now watch this. It's self-supporting. You don't have to get any big systems and bring a lot of money into it. You don't have to join a lot of members. It supports its members, of the Spirit of Life in them, functioning.

L-114 Notice the water that comes from it, fresh, pure and clean. Not a cistern, something stagnated that's been in-documented by forty, fifty different minds, saying, "This is right, and that's right, and this conception," and vote and call on, and as they do, and then make a denomination out of it. It's pure and clean, unadulterated Word of God, coming from the hand of God. It's a real artesian well.

L-115 Notice, the secret of its power is within itself. Man cannot find it. Some kind of a pressure, beneath it, that's making it push up.

L-116   I remember when I, used to, was the state game warden of Indiana. I used to go by, in Harrison County, a certain well, a spring. It was always bubbling up. And just, oh, it looked like it was the most happiest thing. Whether the snow was on the ground, ice, was froze, how cold it was, it still bubbled; where the old man-made ponds and tanks, with frogs and everything, was out there froze over, solid.

L-117 And that goes to show that any denomination, through a little lack of Spirit or a little change of atmosphere, will freeze over. But God's artesian well, He's the--He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. It keeps all the things bubbled out of it and shoved out of it. And there is none in there, to begin with. The minute it gets into it, it'll push it out of the way.


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