<TITLE>07. Par 55-66</TITLE>L-55 But why would you accept a false impersonation, when the skies are full of the genuine thing, when "the promise is unto you and to your children"? Why would we accept something that was different? Why would we take up a creed or a dogma, when the Bible is the unadulterated Word of God? Why would we try to add to or take from, when the Lord Jesus said in Revelation 22:18, "Whosoever shall take one Word out of It, or add one word to It, his part will be taken from the Book of Life"?

L-56   When God first set the human race on earth, He told them they live by His Word. Now the Word of God is like a chain, you're passing across hell with It; and its chain is only its best at its weakest link, and God wants us to keep every Word of It. Now that was the first of the Bible; just to break one Word, plunged the human race into a darkness of death.

L-57 Jesus came in the middle of the Bible, and He said that, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word." Not just part of the Words, or ninety-nine out of a hundred; but every Word, just like Eve and Adam was.

L-58 And in the last of the Bible, Revelation 22:18, He said that, "Whosoever shall take a Word out of This, or add one Word to It!"

L-59 So why do we need to inject in Here somebody's ideas of things, when this is God's Own Idea about it? We want to take what He said. And it's also written, "Let every man's word be a lie, and Mine be the Truth."

L-60   That's what was the matter with this prophet. In the days of Jeremiah, he was a prophet, He had the Word of the Lord. And this fellow was trying to inject something to It, now it cannot be relied upon. And I'm likening these tanks now to these systems that we have tried to take, and to take the place of the original Word of God.

L-61 For, nothing can take Its place. It is God. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." In Hebrews 13:8, said, "He is the same yesterday, today, and forever." How can we rub away from That? It's got to be the Truth. He remains the same. He is the same in every principle.

L-62 That's the reason you enjoy It, you Baptists and Methodists, and Catholic and Presbyterians, and so forth, enjoy that Presence. Somewhere, in you, you've accepted God. Maybe sometime in an intellectual way, maybe you have felt the Power of God, and you are a servant of God; but when you can really come into God, and recognize your place in Him, as a son or a daughter of God, that's what brings that great thrill to you, that God intended you to have.

L-63   Now we notice in Saint Mark, the 16th chapter, Jesus did not say, "Go ye into all the world, and--and--and teach." He said, "Go preach the Gospel." Preach the Gospel, is, demonstrating the Power of the Holy Spirit! "Go ye into all the world, and demonstrate the Power of the Holy Ghost."

L-64 Talking to a brother, one of the sponsor's on the... my meeting in India, in Bombay there, down into South Africa and different places, where the missionaries had taught It as a word or as an intellectual conception. But one day in the meeting, when the Holy Spirit came down, Hisself, and saved thirty thousand blanket natives at one altar call, and right on the same ground where they were standing. Women standing there, who had been as naked as they almost were when they come into the world, and the very minute that they raised their hands to receive Christ...

L-65 And the Holy Spirit fell upon the place and healed twenty-five thousand people at one time, off of wheel chairs, cots and stretchers. The mayor of the city had me, next day, look at these van loads going down the street.

L-66   Them women standing there, naked, not knowing they were naked. But as soon as the Holy Spirit struck them, they folded their arms to walk away from the presence of their man.


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