<TITLE>09. Par 78-86</TITLE>L-78 On Revelation now, we wish to turn to the 3rd chapter of Revelation, begin with the 14th verse. And we want to read just the portion, it's a Message to the Laodicea Church Age. And I believe, and I--I suppose most all Spirit-filled people and Bible readers believe, could say amen to that, that we are in the Laodicea Church Age, 'cause that's the last age. Listen to the Message of the condition of the church at this time.
And to the angel of the church of... Laodicea write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
I know thy works,... thou art neither cold nor hot: I would that thou wert cold or hot.
So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest thou not that thou art wretched,... miserable,... poor,... blind, and naked:
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in... fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that thy shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcome, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

L-79   The Lord bless the reading of this Word. Now I want to take, for just a few moments, a little text, called, Doors In Door. Doors In Door. Now this is a very... Doors In Door, is three words. Doors In Door.

L-80 You might say to me, "Brother, there is probably a hundred people here. There, don't you think that's kind of a small text, when you have before you a hundred souls?"

L-81 Well, that, that may be true, the--the text is small. But it isn't the size of the text, that--that counts, it's what it is. It's--it's what the text says, that counts.

L-82   Like, I believe it was in Louisville, Kentucky, some time ago, a--a little boy was up in the attic, fooling around with some old trunks up in the garret, and he run unto an old-fashion postage stamp. Well, the first thing in his mind, he might get an ice cream cone for that. There was a collector down the street, so he took off down the street, just as hard as he could go. And said, "What will you give me for this stamp?"

L-83 The collector looked it over, and it was kind of faded out. He said, "I'll give you a dollar."

L-84 My, that was easy sold. He would have let it went for a nickel, and then been happy for it, to get an ice cream, but it was sold for a dollar. The collector sold it for five hundred dollars. And later, I don't know just where it did go, it went into the hundreds of dollars. You see, the little piece of paper wasn't very much, just a piece that you wouldn't pick up off the floor. But, it wasn't the paper that counted, it's what's on the paper, that counts.

L-85 And that's the way it is with reading God's Word. It isn't just the paper, the value of the paper, or the size of the paper, it's what's wrote on that paper. And one word is enough to save a world, if it'd be received that way.

L-86   Sometime ago there was... I read a story of the days of our noble... One of the greatest Presidents I think the nation ever had was--was Lincoln. Not because that he come from Kentucky, but because he was a great man. He was deprived of an education, but yet was--was something in his heart, some purpose.


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