23-0127A_ALL THE DAYS OF OUR LIFE (SPIRIT OF TRUTH)

Joh 16:12  I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. 

Joh 16:13  Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. 

*AND EVERYTHING THAT HE HAS PLACED HERE ON EARTH IS FOR HIS GLORY.

22    As I said to Brother Carl, yesterday, looking at a tree, I said, "Isn't that a beautiful palm tree? But, after all, there's nothing to it but a bunch of volcanic ash. That's all it is." And I said, "How different it is now from that eucalyptus tree. Well, what's a eucalyptus tree? Volcanic ash, with just a life in it." I said, "After all, what am I and what are you? Volcanic ash, that's exactly, from the earth; dust of the earth, with a life in it."

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  23      But each life has been planted by the master Life-giver, and He knows just how and what to do. And everything that He has placed here on earth is for His glory. The stars are for His glory. The winds are for His glory. The flowers are for His glory. And we are the crowning of His glory.

*GOD HAS A BATTLE WITH HIM, TO GET HIM TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT, AND TO OBEY.

24    But it seems like that everything will obey Him but man. Man just seems to... He has such a time, because that he was the only thing that fell. Everything else stayed in its original condition. But, man fell. Therefore, God has a battle with him, to get him to do what is right, and to obey.

*AND ONE OF THE GREAT PROBLEMS FOR GOD, DOWN THROUGH THE YEARS…

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  25      And one of the great problems for God, down through the years, as the history of the church goes, is to find somebody that He can completely get in His control. He only needs one man. He's always used one man at a time. We studied that last few nights: one man, not a group. He just wants one. That's all He needs. Cause, two men would have two different ideas. He just makes one man, represents Himself through that one person. Never did He do it otherwise than that. See?

***HE'S GOT ONE PERSON TODAY, AND THAT PERSON IS THE ONE WE JUST READ AFTER: THE HOLY SPIRIT…

26    Now, He's got one Person today, and that Person is the One we just read after: the Holy Spirit. He is the Person that God has sent forth, the Spirit of Jesus Christ into the earth, the Spirit of God, to manifest and declare Christ through His Church, see, just to continue the Life of Christ through the Church.

***IT'S JUST YIELDING, SEE, REALIZING THAT YOU'RE NOTHING…

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  27      Now, it's such a marvelous thing, and--and yet it's so simple, if we would just stop and think. We press, we quiver, we--we fear, we get in flusterations and doubts, just thinking. "Well, must I press in?" It isn't that. It's just yielding, see, realizing that you're nothing, and just let Him completely take you over, take over your thinking, take over.

28    Now, I don't mean to walk up to Christ with--with just a--a blank mind. I don't mean that. You come to Him in your right mind, and in a--a--a penitent mind, and humble. And then say, "Lord Jesus, here am I. Now, it's written here in Your Word, that You 'had many things yet to say to the disciples.' You said, 'They could not bear them now.'" And perhaps that's our case today, we cannot understand them.

*WE OUGHT TO SEARCH OUT THESE THINGS, FIND OUT WHETHER THEY'RE RIGHT OR NOT.

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  29      God can raise up just a little something different, and altogether we denounce it. Instead of searching the Scripture to see if it's right or not, we just quickly throw it away, "There's nothing to it." We ought to search out these things, find out whether they're right or not. And remember, if they're not right, they'll finally die, for Jesus said, "Every plant that My Heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up."

30    But I think it was Gamaliel that made that great statement that time, "If it be of God, we don't want to be found fighting against It. And--and if it's not of God, it'll come to naught anyhow." So, study it and think of it.

 

***THERE'S NO OTHER WAY OF KNOWING WHAT IS TRUTH… YOU'LL ONLY GET IT BY THE HOLY SPIRIT.

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  31      And now, He said in here, "But when He, the Holy Ghost, is come."

32    Now, someone said, some time ago it's been, speaking, said, "The Holy Ghost is actually your mental mind. You think." That would put the Holy Spirit a thought.

33    But the Bible said, "When He..." And "He" is a personal pronoun. See? See?  

34    Then, you see, there's no other way of knowing what is Truth. Only by... You cannot get it by culture, by seminary experiences. You'll only get it by the Holy Spirit. He's the One that's been sent to reveal It.

Now, then, He also said, "And He will show you things to come."

***IT'S THE HOLY SPIRIT TAKING OVER POSSESSION, OR TAKING POSSESSION OF THE CHURCH, TO OPERATE CHRIST IN THE CHURCH.

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  35      Now, Hebrews, the 1st chapter, said, "God in sundry times and divers manners spake to the fathers through the prophets, but in this last day by His Son, Christ Jesus." See? It's the Holy Spirit taking over possession, or taking possession of the Church, to operate Christ in the Church. Then, you become as He was. He become as you was, so you could become as He was. See? He become you, that you might become Him. That, it's--it's above understanding. There's no way to explain it, and don't try it. Just accept it. He spoke It, and that settles it. Just say it's right. Believe It.

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  36      Now, as a young Christian, I've always made this statement. I was glad God got a hold of me before the church did. Hard telling what I'd have been. But I--I was thankful of the leadership and the direct contact that the Holy Spirit impressed my life with, before I ever surrendered it. For, as a little lad, I knew there was Something. He had talked, and I'd talk to Him. He talked back to me. And I begin to notice that the things that He told me, as a little lad, that they begin to happening just exactly the way He said they'd do. So I knowed it had to be true.

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  37      Now, I'm an old man now. And I--I have never one time... And can call the world to--to a standstill, and ask them. "Put your finger on one thing that He ever told me, in THUS SAITH THE LORD, in the Name of the Lord, but what was absolutely the truth and fact, and come to pass, out of the thousands times thousands of things." What does...

***WE CAN HAVE CONFIDENCE IN WHAT HAS TAKEN OVER OURSELVES. THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS TAKEN US OVER.

38    What am I saying that for? See, I've put us all as volcanic dust. But it's the promise of God's Word. Therefore, I cannot have confidence in myself. You cannot have confidence in yourself. But, together, we can have confidence in What has taken over ourselves. The Holy Spirit has taken us over. We must have confidence in That. And as we place our confidence in That, then the results comes.

***IT'S NOT MAN. IT'S GOD.

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  39      It would be out of reason for me to try to--to even scratch the surface of telling you some of the things that the Holy Spirit has done in my own broken-up life, my days. I say this with His Bible open, His Word. And that's what He is. He is the Word.

40    See, this--this Seed here comes into the volcanic ash, in a way of a spiritual Being. God comes in as Spirit and operates through the ash. So, it's not man. It's God.

***GOD WOULD MAKE KNOWN WHAT IS THE RICHES OF THE GLORY OF THIS MYSTERY… CHRIST IN YOU, THE HOPE OF GLORY…

   *** To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:  Col.1:27

 

For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the Word of the truth of the Gospel;

Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:  Col.1:5-6

- That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;  vs.10

- Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;   vs.11

- Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:  

Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

In whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins:   vs.12-14

***ALL THINGS WERE CREATED BY HIM, AND FOR HIM.

   *** For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him, and for Him:   Col.1:16

And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.   Vs.18

And, having made peace through the Blood of His cross, by Him to reconcile all things unto Himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.

And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath He reconciled.   Vs.20-21

If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the Gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;   Vs.23