<TITLE>14. Par 126-136</TITLE>L-126   You don't need any man-made theology for a strainer rag, either, to tell you what go through It, what It done. None. Some man-made theology of some educational system, self-righteous religion in this, in this, or some cistern of religious system; you don't need it. It don't have to be there. You put a rag on That, It'd throw it plumb up in the air. It don't have nothing to do with it. It's self-supporting! It's the Power of God springing up into Life. Why would a man leave a thing like That, to join into a system, is more than what I could say. It don't need any strainer rags. It don't need it. It does not need to be, does not need to depend on local rains for its filling. It's full all the time. Amen.

L-127   A man, I hear them say, "I'm just down in the dumps today." Oh, my!

L-128 Oh, I'm glad to be living in the Presence of God, whether things are going right or not right. He is my Life. Amen. He is our Life. He is the Life, the abundant Life. Yes, sir. And--and look what It does for us. Its power and purity is within Itself. It needs no priming from the cistern or any other system.

L-129 Somebody say, "Well, what's your fellowship card? Let's see if you're a good Baptist. I'll see if you got a card. Or--or, a good Pentecostal, if you're a Oneness, Twoness, Threeness, or--or whatever more." See, It doesn't need any priming. It's always a going. Yeah.

L-130 You know, I used to have this old cistern, I had to pour water down there and prime and prime and prime, with this old sucker pump, to get it out of there; you know, pour some more water in it, and just poured a bunch of bugs and things in, to pump out bugs and things. That's just about the way some of these systematic revivals is.

L-131 But, thank God, "There is a Fountain filled with Blood, where sinners plunge beneath the flood!" You don't make church members; you make Christians out of them when they come to that Fount.

L-132 Why would you leave the Fountain of living waters, to drink at such a cesspool as that?

L-133   No pumping up; Its power is within itself. It needs no priming, yes, sir, for (Itself) Its Own Life is in Itself. That's the way the seed of God is in a man's heart. The Life of God is within the individual, not in the church. In you, it's in you, you're the one that has the germ of Life in you.

L-134 Just one taste of It is convincing to all kinds of clergymen. Ask the Catholic priest, ask the Baptist, whatever it is. Just one taste of this great fresh artesian water, I'm telling you, it's convincing that It's the Truth. Your hungry soul, anyhow, it's convincing to the thirster, anyhow. Now if you're not thirsting... This little Baptist, he wasn't thirsting, to begin with; but when he got thirsty, the water tasted awful good. That's right, but you've got to thirst, "the blessed thirst," as Jesus called that. "Blessed are you when you do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for you shall be filled." And Jesus said that, friend. Yes, sir, It's a blessed Fountain to the thirsty.

L-135   Why should any want to swap It for a swamp? How would you like to swap an artesian well for a swamp water, full of bugs and contaminations of all kinds of man-made theories, which God said that, "Adding one to His Word, or taking one of His Words away, his part would be taken off of the Book of Life"?

L-136 And when God promised that He would vindicate this Word in every generation, "For the promise is unto you and your children, and them that's far off, as many as the Lord our God shall call," why would you pump on some systematic pump that's been contaminated for years, from some old manna? Maybe the manna was all right, nothing against it, in the days of Martin Luther, in the days of this and the days of that, and the other reformers, nothing about it; but that's manna that fell a long time ago.


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