<TITLE>16. Par 149-161</TITLE>L-149 And you'll find the same thing, brother, when you start this journey to the promised Land. You'll find doors closed. Like that little preacher said, an Anglican, or whatever he was, and, the first thing you know, his church turned him out. See, as long as he had so many receive the Holy Ghost, that was the end of it.

L-150   And--and Israel found the same thing, as examples, in their journey to the promised land. The tanks were all dry. Yeah, their journey in obedience to His promised Word, their journey, in the tanks, they found dry. Now they found the tank--tanks could not be depended on, for the journey.

L-151 And if you're going to journey in obedience to the Word of God, and try to join this and join that, you're going to find out there ain't a tank in the world that will support It. Not at all. You are an individual. God leads you just the way He wants to lead you. Then, we have found the same thing today, and all tanks are dried up.

L-152   But the promise, are always true, to God Who will keep His promise to His people. He promised to supply all they had need of, so He did that. In the midst of the empty, dry tanks, just think of it; and complaining Israel, in the desert, in their journey! He called His servant-leader, the prophet Moses, out to one side, and opened up a fountain of living water, by a smitten Rock, so His believing children would not perish.

L-153 In this day, that speaks of grace, to me. We are undeserving. The way that we've done, the way that we've lived, we are undeserving.

L-154 But God, in this day, like right here this morning, look, to Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Catholic, and all, He has opened up a Fountain. Hebrews 13 proves this, that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. So it--it makes true, John 3:16, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish, but have everlasting Life."

L-155 And it was lifted up for a compound reason, because the people were murmuring and sinning, and they were snakebitten and they were dying; and for the forgiveness of their sins, and the healing of their sickness.

L-156 And that's the same Fountain that's open to us today, for our salvation and for our healing, physical healing. "For He is the same yesterday, today, and forever."

L-157   And when the Rock that was smitten by the promised Word of God, had commanded, It was giving forth gushers of pure clean water; not--not stagnated, not contaminated, but God's Own Presence. Pure water, and it saved all that drank. Now we know that that's true, because we read it in the Old Testament, as a type.

L-158 Now, you did not have to pull it, pump it, join it, go into the seminary to learn how to use it. They'll tell you how to use it there, see, "Oh, well, you, if you have received the Holy Spirit, we believe that, but so you--you do it this way."

L-159 But, you see, there is no control of it. You don't use the Holy Spirit; the Holy Spirit uses you, see. See, you're not, you're not to use the Holy Spirit; the Holy Spirit got you. A gift is not something you take, like a knife, and sharpen a pencil with it. It's yielding yourself to God, and getting yourself out of the way so the Holy Spirit can use you.

L-160   Notice, they never had to pump it or pull it, or they never had to ask, "Now how do we use this water?" Because, they knowed how to use it. They were thirsty. They knowed what to do with it.

L-161 And so is a man or woman, what, regardless of what creed or denomination he belongs to. If he is thirsting for God, he don't have to run back to the seminary, like this Anglican brother did, or British brother, last night, have to go back and consult how, to the Anglican church, how he must use this great gift he has got, speaking in tongues, and how he must do this. They would kick him out, to begin with. See? He was thirsty, so God just filled him. That's all there is to it. It's thirsting, and then He just fill.


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