25-0428P_THE COMFORTER PT-3
*NEVER TO COMPROMISE ONE WORD
OF GOD'S WORD… THIS SACRED TRUST WAS HANDED TO THE CHURCH
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74 God help me. God help you, as
Christians, never to compromise one Word of God's Word. This sacred trust was handed to the Church, and it's a glorious thing to
have this Gospel, the full Gospel, to preach It without compromising anywhere. Preach
It just as It's written. Live It just as It's written. What
a sacred trust.
And if we ever expect this Word to ever come to pass, if we ever expect God to keep His Word, we've got to stay with It just the way God wrote It. That's the reason, if you stay with It the way God wrote It, there'll be all kinds of things happening among you; every Word will be fulfilled.
*GOD CAN EVER GET A PEOPLE UNDER HIS OWN
CONTROL, IF HE'LL GET A MAN OR A WOMAN THAT WON'T COMPROMISE ON HIS WORD
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76 I'm under expectations just now
myself of seeing a shaking power come, that'll shake the nations pretty soon.
God can ever get a people under His Own control, if He'll get a man or a woman that won't compromise on His Word, but will stand there like the Rock of Ages, that'll believe every Word of It, and believe that He's behind It... And a man who believes It, you must act like It. If you don't act like It, then you don't believe It. But if you believe It, act like It. And you can put It to work, and the Word will be in you.
AND WHEN WE COMPROMISE, THEN WE CANNOT EXPECT TO--GOD TO KEEP HIS
PROMISE TO US; BECAUSE WE HAVE BROKE IN UPON THE SACRED TRUST
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78 We lost our heritage because
that we--we just compromise. And when we compromise,
then we cannot expect to--God to keep His promise to us; because we have broke
in upon the sacred trust, and defiled the trust that God gave us. Let us
keep that trust; keep it sacred; keep it holy. Keep every Word of It, and
compromise nowhere. Take God at His Word and believe It, act like it, stand on
It; don't move. That's what we must do. That's what God's looking for.
As I said this morning in the message, in our message this morning, speaking of, "It behooveth us," or, "It's becoming to us that we fulfill all righteousness." It's up to us to whom the Word's been delivered to. It's up to us that we stay with that Word. And as we stay with It, we see God working among us. So it's becoming to us to stay with It. It's a heritage that God has given us.
*AND IN THE TIME OF STRAIN, IN THE TIME OF PERPLEXITY, IN THE TIME OF
DISTRESS, IN THE TIME OF PERILOUS TIMES, THEY FOUND COMFORT IN KEEPING THE
WORD.
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80 Let's us go back just a few minutes and find those men who kept God's great, sacred trust. That was His Word. That's what we inherit is the Word. And in the time of strain, in the time of perplexity, in the time of distress, in the time of perilous times, they found comfort in keeping the Word. The Word is God's Comfort. When you know, and can walk down even to the valley of the shadow of death, and know that God said so; that settles it. God said so.
You can't say, "Why, the pastor said it," or,
"The church said it."
You can say, "God said so." That's the comfort we get. That's where I can find comfort now. That's where you found your comfort. God said so. "He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. Whosoever liveth and believeth in Me, shall never die. Believest thou this?" See, It's comfort. It's the comfort we get.
*BUT YOU KNOW HIM, AND HAVE SEEN HIM. AND
HE DWELLETH WITH YOU, AND SHALL BE IN YOU."
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84 Noah. I spoke of him, I believe, this morning, the comfort he must have gotten, though in the midst of criticism. Certainly.
"And the world cannot receive Him," Jesus said
so, "because it knoweth Him not. But you know Him,
and have seen Him. And He dwelleth with you, and shall be in you."
Noah had met God. He heard God. He had God's Word. So it didn't make any difference what anyone else said; Noah had God's Word. So It was a comfort to him, when the critics would come, was going on what they were doing, criticizing him, and science, saying, "How can waters fall from the skies, when there's none up there? We can prove there's no water there. You're a fanatic, Noah. Why, I can prove to you that you're a fanatic. Look at here, where's there any water? Show me." They might've had glasses that could've seen a hundred and twenty million years of light space, as we have today. So you know it had never rained. But yet Noah was comforted, because he had God's promise. Amen.
*BUT YET, THE COMFORT NOAH HAD, BECAUSE
HE HAD GOD'S WORD, IT WAS A COMFORT; HE KNEW GOD SAID SO.
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87 What did he do? He went about building an ark, "How silly." There, perhaps, never was a boat. There was no lakes and rivers, and things in them days, so they needed not a boat. But here he is, building a freak-looking thing. And everybody's laughing him. And it was enough to discourage him; everybody coming by, said, "Look up on the hill, at that fanatic up there. What's that house-of-a-thing he's building? What kind of an--an outfit is that? And look what he's building it out of. Why, it's nonsense." But yet, the comfort Noah had, because he had God's Word, It was a comfort; he knew God said so. Amen. God said it, and that settles it. God said so.
"How do you know
it's going to rain?"
"God said
so."
"How do you know
water is going to come from up there?"
"God said so." That's the comfort he had in the Word.
*…THE CHURCH MUST EMPTY ITSELF OUT, AND GET REAL LIGHT, GET ALL THE
DENOMINATION OUT OF YOU, GET ALL THE WORLD OUT OF YOU…
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88 Let's watch his ark a few minutes; it's kind of a fanatically way to build it. Did you notice over in Genesis, He said, "Build it out of gopher wood"? Now, if you ever took and studied what gopher wood was, it's almost like balsa. It's a real light wood, and it's just like a sponge. It's all full of little cells. When it's alive in the tree, it's got sap in it. And as soon as you cut it down, the sap runs out of it. So it makes nothing but a sponge. Now, He said, "Don't build it out of good, hard oak. Don't build it out of sycamore or some solid grain wood. But build it out of gopher wood, the lightest and most spongy type of wood that could be." If set in the water, it'd sink in a minute. "Build it out of gopher wood, and fix it up like that." Said how far and how long it should be, and said, "Put the rooms in it; three rooms.
*…THE CHURCH MUST EMPTY ITSELF OUT, AND GET REAL LIGHT, GET ALL THE
DENOMINATION OUT OF YOU, GET ALL THE WORLD OUT OF YOU…
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90 ….. They had a rosin tree, and they taken this evergreen and cut it down.
And instead of--of having the things that we--like we do today to take the
rosin out, they beat the tree. And they beat the tree till the sap and rosin poured out.
Then they would heat it and pour it upon this soft gopher wood that was full
of--like a sponge, and it just filled her up. And then when it got
hardened, you couldn't drive a nail in it. See, it was ready to receive. That's
like Christ.
That's the Church. See, the Church must empty itself out, and get real light, get all the denomination out of you, get all the world out of you, get all the unbelief out of you, and give away.
*BUT LET'S EMPTY UP, ALL OF OUR THOUGHTS,
ALL OF OUR CREEDS, ALL OF OUR BOOKS, AND SOAK UP THE HOLY SPIRIT, WHICH IS GOD
IN HIS WORD.
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93 And there was Another which was
different from us, that was cut down in His young life. And He was bruised and
beaten, "Wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquity."
He was beaten until the Life of Him poured out, like the rosin out of a tree.
And, oh, how the Christian can soak It up, oh, if you're empty. But you got to
empty up first. The trouble of it is, we don't want to empty up. But let's empty up, all of our thoughts, all of our creeds,
all of our books, and soak up the Holy Spirit, which is God in His Word.
Then it could ride the storm; it could ride the seas,
because it was harder than any other wood. There was nothing could take its
place; nothing would. The parts of the ark still remain; six thousand years
ago. And they find parts of it, because it remains; because it was so hardened
from this cased-out that kept the judgments on the outside. The waters was the
judgments.
And when we come into Christ through His beaten Life, soak Him up into our system, we become so inoculated from the things of the world until they could stand the wrath. When the storms are pitching and the sea is contrary, yet, the little boat don't fail. She slides right on through the waves to the Rock of Ages.
*NOAH HAD A CONSOLATION, THAT WHILE HE
WAS BUILDING THIS, WHILE HE WAS MAKING THIS ARK.
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97 Noah had a
consolation, that while he was building this, while he was making this ark. He knew that he was comforted, because that he had the Word of the Lord
that told him, "That's the instructions."
What if somebody
would've said, "Say, Noah, what do you mean by building that--that out of
gopher wood? Why, you know that that wood. If there would be water, it would be
the first thing to sink."
But, you see, Noah was following the instruction. He had the Word of God, which was His Comforter. The Word was his Comfort. "I don't understand why God's making me build it like this, but this is what He said do."
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100 I can't understand why God makes
me do the way I do. I can't understand why He won't let me cooperate and do all
these other things, and go on with the church. But this
is His instruction. This is the way He said build It.
"What's He going
to do with It?"
I don't know. I'm just supposed to lay the timbers up there and nail them up. And them Timbers is the Word of God. And there lays my comfort (That's right.), because It's being built the way God said build It. "Upon this Rock I'll build My Church, and the gates of hell can't prevail against it." That's right. What is it? "Upon the spiritual revelation to know Who Jesus Christ is." Not the third person of the trinity: no trinity in it; He is God and God alone made manifest in flesh. That's where He builds His Church. "And the gates of hell cannot prevail against it." Although, it showed the gates of hell would be against it, but would never be able to prevail.
*THEM THAT'S WILLING TO RECEIVE CHRIST,
CHRIST DOES SOMETHING WITH THEM. IT'S THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST THAT--THAT
ANCHORS US AND SECURES US INTO HIM.
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106 Some of them says, "Then
why don't you get you a church where great flocks of intelligent people come,
well dressed and well groomed, and can pay you well, and things like that, and
preach the Gospel? Why do you preach to a bunch of poor people? And you're half
starved, and so forth, and all like this." They say that to the preachers
who stand for Truth. But, oh, brother, I can't tell you. "Won't you get an
intellectual crowd, somebody who knows their abc's?"
It don't make any difference what kind of a crowd it is. Them that's willing to receive Christ, Christ does something with them. It--it's that crowd. It's that person that maybe don't know his abc's. But if he doesn't, He knows Christ, and that's the difference. See, it's--it's not the--the--the standing, the blue blood that you claim to have. It's the Blood of Jesus Christ that--that anchors us and secures us into Him.
*JOB...HOW THAT MAN HAD A COMFORTER. WHAT
WAS HIS COMFORTER? THE WORD OF GOD.
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108 Let's just name another one, while we're at it. Job, I like to speak of Job, how that man had a Comforter. What was his Comforter? The Word of God. God told him that he'd--he'd be just, as long as he offered that burnt offering. Job rested solemnly upon that burnt offering. No matter how hard the storms come, how many boils broke out, how many things was taken away from him, he still stood on God's Word. It was a comfort to Job.
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109 When his people come, the churches, and tried to--to reconcile him, and
say, "Looky here, Job, looky here, you know that you've sinned. You know
that you've done wrong. How would God ever punish a righteous man like that,
would take all he's got, take his children, tear up his home, do all of these
things, and break down your health? And here you are setting here, a miserable
wretch. How do... How can you justify yourself, Job, by saying that you're not
a sinner?"
But Job knowed he wasn't a sinner, because he was
standing on the Word. Amen. God required that burnt
offering and a--a confession, and Job had made his confession and stood on the
Word. And he cried in the midst of his trouble, "I know my Redeemer liveth; at the last days He'll stand on the
earth. And though the skin worms destroys this body, yet in my flesh shall I
see God." See, his comfort was God's promise,
God's Word.
That's the heritage that we have: God's Word; It's the promise. Yes, sir.
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116 Now, if God, Who raised me from the dead, me a sinner, dead in sin and trespasses, He quickened my soul, He did something to me. He did something to you. He took that spirit of the world away from me. He took that desire of the world. He lifted me up above those shadows. And He give me the baptism of the Holy Ghost. If my God can do that, death can't separate me from Him. That's it. There's nothing that can separate me. That's the comfort. "He that believeth on Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live." That's right." I know. "He that eats My flesh and drinks My Blood, has Everlasting Life, and I'll raise him up at the last day."
*BECAUSE HE PROMISED IT, THAT'S OUR
COMFORT.
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117 If God could take me when I was
down in mire and sin, and raise me up to make me a Christian, if God could take
me when I was perplexed and distressed, and was in the condition that I was in,
a miserable wretch, and raise me up to give me the hope of Eternal Life, and to
baptize me with the Holy Ghost, and to fill me with His power and glory, then He's able to take me through the valley and the shadow of
death, and receive me into the glory on the other side. Because He promised it,
that's our comfort.
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
All other grounds is sinking sand.
*I'M
RESTING UPON HIS PROMISE, BECAUSE HE MADE THE PROMISE, AND HE SWORE TO THE
PROMISE.
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119 Resting upon His ability, that's
my hope and stay. I'm resting upon His ability. I'm resting upon His grace, not
upon what I am, what He is. I'm resting upon His
promise, because He made the promise, and He swore to the promise. And I
know that we have Eternal Life. That's right.
He rested upon that.
The Hebrew children said, "He's able to deliver us. Nevertheless, if He
doesn't do it, we'll never bow to your image." I like that. Yes, sir.
Though He turns me down at the end of the road,
any Christian could say, though He casts me away into eternal separation, yet I
love Him, yet He's mine. In
hell I can still think the way I think now, I'll still love Him. As the ages
roll on, I still love Him; because something happened in my heart; something
taken place. "If I had a life, or had I three, like the Lord Jesus Christ
I long to be." That's right, 'cause something happened. He is my Life. He came to me.
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