<TITLE>16. Par 127-132</TITLE>L-127   There is that real filtration of all the sin of the world, and the love of the world is dead, and this soul is drawing only one thing. Here it is, don't... Remember! Don't forget it. All you out there on the telephones, set this down in your mind. When a thinking man begins to think Who he's going to stand before, and what the Word of God is; when he begins to think, then when he draws through That, there's nothing can get to it but the Holy Ghost.
What is it? It's the germ, seed Word from the beginning, that you was in God at the beginning, standing here drawing the seed Life. The seed is in your heart, by foreordination. Hallelujah! The seed is already in there, by the foreknowledge of God, predestinated. And when it draws, it can't draw through nothing else but the Word.
And then it's the taste of the thinking man, the righteous man, the holy man who sees the Bible, that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and forever. What comes into that place down there? That Word, that's in the heart. "I've hid Thy Word in my heart, that I sin not against Thee."
What is it, when it's drawing through the Word? There's only one thing will pass through the Word; that's the Holy Ghost. That's the only thing that can pass through the Word, is the Holy Ghost. And a thinking man's Filter gives a holy man a taste.

L-128   Then, he's tasted of the Heavenly things; he's got the Word of God in his heart. He sees It manifested before him, and his whole soul is wrapped into It, and the world and all things is dead around him.

L-129 A thinking man's Filter, of religion; and I'm thinking of filtering religion now. When a thinking man's Filter gives a holy man's taste, see, It satisfies his taste. He sees that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. There it is. See Him right before us, doing the same things He did; it satisfies the holy man's taste, his thinking.

L-130 He knows then that he's passed from death unto Life. And he loves, and--and--and it loves for the world... to be confirmed, and wants the Word to be confirmed and vindicated. In each age he waits for It, for he is a holy man and he's got a desire to see God. Others just wants to join church. This man wants to see God. He don't see Him in a bunch of creeds. He don't see Him in big fine pipe organs, or cathedrals, and high crosses, or polished-up scholars with their collars turned around. He doesn't see Him in theology and in a theologian. He sees Him in the confirmation of His Word.
I seen Him in the watchfires of It.
My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He is tramping out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He's loosed the fateful lightning with His terrible swift sword;
His Truth keeps marching on. (It will, to the end. Yes, sir.)

L-131   See what I mean? A Filter, man... Or, a thinking man's Filter; a man that wants to stand in the Presence of God. What was God's Filter? His Word. "The day you eat thereof, that day you die." Don't care what's happening out here; don't you pass that Word. "Washed by the waters of the Word," a thinking man's Filter. Not a denomination, not a creed, not a church, not a cathedral; but a thinking man's Filter, for you're going to be judged by the Word. A thinking man will think that. A foolish man, or a taste of the world, will just take anything, a substitute. Why substitute when there's a real One?

L-132   Think, just think of it a minute. A woman speaking in tongues, with bobbed hair and lipstick on, and then the church still holds to it, that that's the evidence of the Holy Ghost.


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