<TITLE>15. Par 137-148</TITLE>L-137 If we notice in the Bible, that they had to pick it up every day. They had to get new. After it got a little old, it rotted. It cannot rot without breaking down. It has to have bacteria in it, or something to--to make it rot. We know that's so.

L-138 And so is the systems! After it lays there from one great revival to another one, and it gets contaminated and gets full of bugs, and like a cistern full of wiggle-tails, as we used to call it, little old bugs that wiggled in there.

L-139   And that's what's the matter with so many people's experience today. They're--they're just full of wiggle-tails, wiggling from one to one, and one to the other, telling tales that ain't got no Truth in it at all. That's right, wiggling out of one into another. "I was a Methodist; I joined the Baptist. I was a Catholic; I went to be this. I went to be that." It's just wiggle-tails. Oh, forget the whole thing!

L-140 And come to the Fountain, amen, the artesian Well, the ever-living Presence of Christ! I believe Him to be the inexhaustible Fountain of Life. More you get from Him, the fresher it gets, and the colder it gets, and the better it gets, and the sweeter it tastes. I have been serving Him now for thirty-three years, and each day grows still sweeter than it was the day before. I never been... He said you would never thirst if we drink of this Water. Notice how great It is. Oh!

L-141 Israel did as many do today, they left the fountain of living waters, to go dig themselves cisterns.

L-142   Now speaking of grace just for a moment, what the grace of God. We got laws and by-laws, "And if you don't measure up to this standard... I got a religious measuring stick; if you don't measure just up to that, you've got to, you can't come in," and so forth. But God saves us by grace, not by a measuring stick. See? But God, speaking of grace now, just how this happened to take place, drinking from Him. From this measuring stick...

L-143 Murmur, murmuring Israel. Watch, He said, "And I will visit you again." Notice in the Scripture. Notice, He is going to try them, to visit them again. Murmuring Israel, at the Red Sea, was invited to follow Him through the stagnated Egyptian's water, to be a free people. They--they was a slave. They was invited to come over to be a free people, with Him. Come out through the dead sea, the dead sea; the Red Sea, rather, come out through that, to go into a wilderness, to bring a separation between them and the impersonators trying to impersonate it, without circumcision.

L-144   Oh, that's what caused the trouble. Every one of them perished right in the wil... or right--right in the sea, Pharaoh and his army. They seen human beings walking by supernatural Power, so they come back around and tried to impersonate that, without being included in the blessing. And when they did, they perished. It's carnal comparison.

L-145 A man that tries to do that, try to impersonate something, then he is making a carnal comparison of a real Christian.

L-146   My Indian brother there knows that. Come up around Bombay and you'll see the people there, the Hindus and so forth, laying on spikes and upon... walking on glass and--and walking in fire, to show what they can do, and things like... That's carnal impersonations of some man back in the jungle there, is doing that to his sacrifice for his god.

L-147 We find that amongst all religious life, carnal impersonations, somebody trying to be like the other. There is only one example you're to be like, that's like Jesus Christ, Who was the Word. And then when the Word of God comes to you, it'll be the same way.

L-148   But God led them right on to the promised land, anyhow. They found, also, every tank, when they started through the wilderness in their journey now, after they had separated, they found out that every tank was dry, to them.


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