<TITLE>28. Par 288-297</TITLE>L-288 Now look! God said, "Go on!" Now, He give him permission to go. There is a permissive will of God, and not the original will of God. You see what a trouble he got into?

L-289   And any man that builds anything, any organization, or anything outside of upon the Word of God, it's shaking sands and will fall! It'll die as sure as anything, because the Word of God is a growing Body of the Bride. You can't have it all foot, all arm, all thigh. These things come in their season.

L-290 And Pentecost, you made it all one thing, therefore you can't accept new revelation. That's the reason you stay right where you're at and die; moves on. (So much, going to wear you out.) But God doesn't change His mind, His first decision is exactly right. So God doesn't change His mind, He just let you go on in your permissive will. "God's a good God," as Oral Roberts says. He's also a fearful God!

L-291   Look, just like you say, "Glory to God, I want to speak with tongues!"He'll let you do it, but that ain't no sign you got the Holy Ghost.

L-292 Remember what Thomas said, the old doubter? "Unless I have some evidence, got to stick my fingers in His nails, His hands, and in His side, I--I--I--I won't even believe It." Now, there you are, the same thing.

L-293 Jesus said, "Here you are, Thomas, stick your hands in here then if that's what you want to know." See? See? Now, if you're the Thomas, right, go ahead. But what did He say? "How much greater is their reward who has never seen and yet believe." Uh-huh.

L-294   Notice, notice, by doing this, he caused the death of sincere man; putting his hand on the ark when he shouldn't have done, it. A great, sincere man, think the anointing and everything was just right, but the ark was moving in it's wrong way. "The oxen," the Bible said, "stumbled," not the Levites. The oxen stumbled and the cart was being pitched over; and a sincere man, with his heart full of love, put his hand upon the ark to hold it back, and was stricken dead because no man could touch that ark but a Levite. See how God keeps His Word, keeps His channel, keeps His order? Uzziah was smitten with leprosy. Here is David, altogether caused the death of a man, and a great disaster; being anointed with the Spirit, both of them, but out of God's channel. Is that right? He died. Oh, it scared David to death, it called the--the name of the place, as Brother Jack read it. See? He marked him there.

L-295   How many times denominations has done the same thing to sincere believers. The Catholic church, the Methodist, the Baptist, Church of Christ, even the Pentecostals, has caused a-many spiritual death with that same thing. When It come, with these things, they found... and they can't go no further, because that's what their denomination believes.

L-296 Look today, the big crusades, same thing. They don't do nothing but make them more a "twofold child of hell, worse than they was in the first place." Makes them harder, really, come to the Truth. Have one of these big revivals, and all of them come in, carry on a little while, and go back out and they start all this sin again. Hear of another revival, say, "Ah, I had so much stuff; I tried it, there's nothing to it." See? They don't know the channel. Don't see.

L-297   I heard our great evangelist Billy Graham, set one morning at a breakfast like this, and he said, "I..." Here, he puts up the Bible, in Louisville, Kentucky, said, "There is God's example." And that's true, the man said the truth. He said, "You go... Paul went into a city and had one convert, come back a year from then had thirty out of that convert." Said, "But I go into a city and have thirty thousand converts, and come back in six months and can't find thirty." He said, "You know what's a matter?" Said, "You lazy preachers," said "you set around with your foot upon the desk and--and call these people by phone instead of visiting them after supper and talking to them."


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