<TITLE>20. Par 163-169</TITLE>L-163   Now let us all, tonight, check our desires, and then you can see what kind of a filter you've been drawing through. Let's check, each one of us, here and out across the nation. Check your desires, what you want really in life. Check what you're fighting for. Check what you're here for. Check what you go to church for. What makes you... It's good to go to church, but just don't go to church only; that won't save you. See? Just check just a few minutes, say, "Is my objective... What--what kind of a filter am I drawing through, anyhow?"
And if you won't cope with the Word of God, and your soul don't do it, then there's something wrong; for it shows up your taste, that the life... what kind of a life is in you. If it's a holy, discreet, honorable, it'll come out that way. If it isn't, you've got another taste in you you're drawing from. That's exactly right.
And if the taste is the Word of God and the will of God, then you know what's in you, what's drawing the taste. Shows you are a part of that Word. That Word is in you, drawing from the Word.

L-164   What's It drawing? It's drawing through the Word, because you are a part of the Body of Christ of this age. And if that Word is in you, It can only draw through the Word, the Spirit that quickens that Word that's in you. Just the Word alone won't live. That's the reason, "All the Father has given Me will come to Me; and if I be lifted up, I'll draw all men unto Me." See? See, "the Father," the part of the Body of Christ that's in the world, predestinated, put into the heart.

L-165 Any man that's a real Christian, born again today, knows, since he was a little kid, or a little girl, either, that there was something in you that hungered for God. And you tried joining churches and everything else; it wouldn't work. What was it? It was that Word. You was hunting for a Filter. And one day It passed before you; you seen Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. That satisfied the taste. See?
Cause, life was in you, drawing. See, the life in you is drawing. It's--it's telling what desire you got here. You're pulling. You can't pull through this, and that, and the other. You've got to find that right Filter, 'cause you're a thinking person. See?

L-166 If you're a thinking person, you are predestinated, or filtered 'fore... from before the foundation of the world.

L-167   And if a denominational minister hears this, I hope that he takes the thinking man's Filter, if he's a denomination minister. Then he'll throw down that denominational pack that's sure to perish, 'cause it's the word of man; and accept God's filtered Word that can never fail nor pass away, and It will suit the holy man's taste. And, like Jacob, will sacrifice all the world and the appetites of every denomination or fame, that there is in the world, where you can be bishop, cardinal, whether you can be a state presbyter, or a pastor of some great church. You'll sacrifice everything that there is. Not like Esau, to become part of the world; but like Jacob, you'll give everything you've got to obtain the birthright, the Filter of the thinking man; 'cause It'll give you the holy man's taste. And It will satisfy. And it'll be satisfy, and will sanctify with the Eternal taste of the holy goodness of God.

L-168   Remember, Satan punched the first hole through Eve's mind, or her thinking, to let the taste of his wisdom and knowledge get through.

L-169 Now think of this. I'm closing. Satan punched the first hole through, 'cause all she could draw was the Word. That was the Spirit through the Word of God, 'cause she said, "As long as you breathe through this Filter, you'll never die; but you take a breath of this out here, you'll die." See?


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