JOHN 3:1
1 ¶ There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
JOHN 3:2
2 The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
JOHN 3:3
3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
PROVERBS 23:7
7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so [is] he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart [is] not with thee.
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77 See, down through the age we started off from the foundation, from the first church age when the Seed went in the ground, the complete Seed. Then it come out through the feet, Luther, come back out then through Wesley, then into Pentecostals, the tongues and the lips. See?
Now, it's in the eyes, prophetic, of Malachi 4 and so forth. And now, there's nothing else left for it to come, but Him Himself to step into that, 'cause that's the last thing there is.
The next is the intelligence, and we have no intelligence of our own; it's His. See? We have no sight of our own. How can a man foresee those things? He can't do it; It's God Himself.
See, it's--it's becoming to a place... And He's governed the body all the way through.
Then the complete Body of Christ is revealed in the form of a Bride that was taken out of His side, like Adam did at the beginning--like Adam's was, rather, at the beginning.
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152 Now, notice the Light... You can't see with your hands, yet it's part of the body. You can't see with the ears, yet it can hear. You can't see with the nose, yet it smells. You can't--you can't see with the lips, though it speaks. See?
That was the Pentecostal age. But now, it's in the eye time, the seeing. See? Now, there isn't one moving faculty beyond the eye. Is that right? The next is the Intelligence, which is Christ Itself, Who controls the whole body: no moving motion beyond that. See? Everything else has moved. See? Move your feet, move you muscles in your legs, move everything, move your--your ears, to move your nose, your--the lips, and so forth, but after your eyes, there's nothing moves. That's why they claim that man gets bald-headed quick, is because (See?) there's no exercise to develop the muscles in--in the hair, the scalp. See? And it's not got a cushion so that they can get blood up in there. The blood won't pump through (See?), won't go up and furnish blood, 'course the--the hair root lives by blood. And now, we find out that that part (You see?)... There's nothing beyond the eye.
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10-5 When we speak in tongues, we have no thought; it's God taking the thoughts; it's God's thought using our lips. We don't think or know what you're saying when you're speaking in tongues, if it's inspired speaking. When you interpret, you do not know what you're saying; you just say it; that's all. See? That's God. And prophesying, you're not using your own thoughts; it's God, 'cause you say things that you ordinarily wouldn't think about saying. See?
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9-2 And He never left His body, see corruption, neither did He leave His soul in hell, but raised Him up on the third day, and He's alive forever more. And we will have a body like His Own glorious body. That's why we're baptized into His Name that we might come forth in His Name, in His death, in His resurrection, that we rise again testifying to the world that we have new Life, that the old man is dead. We buried that first nature.
See, that first nature's gone, and now we are the nature of Him. He lives in us, and we don't do our own will; we do His will. We don't think our own thoughts. The mind--the mind is what thinks.
The mind that was in Christ Jesus is in every believer. See? There--there is the soul, and that's what we're speaking of. Now, that's the part that I'm thinking of now, that that's within us, the soul.
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86 And Moses heard the Voice of God. He was full of theology. He knowed all the ins-and-outs, but it failed. He heard the Voice of God; Moses was never the same.
And no man is never the same. You might hear in your ears the--the Voice speaking, but when you hear in your heart the Voice speaking (See?) then you're hearing. You do not see with your eye. You look with your eye; you see with your heart. You see something, say, "I just don't see it." You mean you don't understand it. You do not hear with your ears, you hear with your heart.
Many times your ears hears the true Voice of God, and It falls off of you like water off of a duck's back. But when you really hear, you hear with your heart.
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E-38 Our Jesus can come right into the midst of the people and perform those very same acts, and what happens? The people will go away and say it's mental telepathy. "Oh, he might be a spiritualist or a fortuneteller, something that's happened in that manner." Oh, if God would open our eyes and let us see what these things are.
That door to the eye is in the heart. It ain't what you see with your eye. That isn't seeing; that's looking. Jesus said to Nicodemus, "Except a man be borned again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God." You don't see it with your eyes; you see it with your understanding. You look with your eyes and understand with your heart. So the door of your eyes is in your heart, because it's a door of understanding.
"Oh, I understand that Jesus said He would do that in the last day. I understand that these things are the sign of God." Then how different.
How it becomes a reality to you. How things change if our eyes are open. He's with you all the time. He helps you. He's standing at your door daily, but you don't recognize it.
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E-29 And then inside of us is an immortal soul, a spirit that gives us the intelligence that we have, that tells we are--educates us in what we are in our personalities. We are that by the spirit that's in us. And then, if this being, something has to die to take care of this so it can live, how much more did Something have to die so this inside could live again. It's the immortal soul that lives by the death of the Lord Jesus Christ and only by the death, for Blood was the antidote.
Cain in his ignorance, he brought fruits of the field, the works of his hands. And many people still think that that was right, think that you could do something to pay your way into heaven. You can't do that. It's not by righteousness, but it's by His grace are we saved, through faith.
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46 The Scripture says, "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as an eagle; they shall run and not be weary, walk and not faint." As the song says, "Teach me, Lord. Oh, teach me, Lord, how to wait." Get my soul washed in the Blood of Calvary, meet every requirement, burn all the bridges around, and say, "Now, Lord, nothing in my arms I bring, simply to Thy cross I cling. You promised it, Lord." That's the kind of condition, the reason people think that I am an isolationist. But in the room, or over on the side of the desert, that's the condition you've got to get into before you walk into this pulpit here. 'Cause Satan's always dropping in little "imps" to try to upset something. And you must be right holding onto the cross, not trusting your own ability, your own thoughts, just leaning on the everlasting arms.
Claiming no intelligence, claiming no mind of your own, you're just opening yourself and let the Holy Spirit speak. That's the condition God wants His Church in. Get in that condition.
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E-4 Now, the soul is that part of you who knows and understands, your intelligence. You remember the vision I had not long ago, or the little translation and went into that place and saw those people? Now, your spirit will come back to that body, and that--that kind of a body, the soul, which is a body that does not have to eat and so forth. "If this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already waiting," a celestial body. And with that spirit, and that soul, and celestial body, you'll raise up again this natural body for that great millennium. See?
You have the power in you now to do that. Now, but that power that you have in you now could make a new world. God doesn't have little weak spots and big heavy spots that's powerful. The least little touch of God is omnipotent. See? The least little touch of God... So you know...
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676-160 Your brain is not your intelligence; it's your spirit that's in you is your intelligence. See? Your brain is a bunch of matter and cells and so forth; it has no intelligence in itself. If it did, then as long as it laid there, whether you was dead or alive, it would still operate. See? But it's not--it's not your brain; it is your spirit inside of you. And your soul is the nature of that spirit. That's the soul of the spirit that controls--the spirit that controls the body. See? There you are.
Now, I got to hurry, 'cause we're just getting a little bit late. Now, I think that--I hope that takes care of that.
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E-34 What was it? There was so much God on the inside, he can see Him on the out. The only way that we'll correctly ever see God is by having Him in our hearts first. It's always been that way. God has hid Himself from the eyes of the wise and prudent, and is most willing to reveal Himself to babes such as will learn, learn of Him, learn His way.
So now, there would be only one way that we could sufficiently answer this question. If I asked in here tonight, the different denominations, perhaps, Baptists, and Presbyterian, and maybe some Catholic, and Pentecostals, and Pilgrim Holiness, and so forth, "Do you believe that a man could see God?"
You'd say, "Certainly."
Well, I'd say, "How would we know whether it was God or not? How could we understand if it was God?"
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E-35 Then there's only one way to answer that question. That's take Hebrews 13:8, that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Someone would say, "I see Him in a rosary as I pray the rosary."
One would say, "I see Him in our creeds of our church."
Others would say, "I see Him when we sing the doxology."
One would say, "I see Him as we quote the apostle's creed," or repeat it, rather.
Others would say, "I see Him when I see the saints rejoicing."
Others would say, "I hear Him in the music."
Which all those things are good. And I have nothing against any of them. And I'm thankful that you can see God in such. But let's lay that aside just for a minute and take what the Scripture says.
That's the Urim Thummim again. If Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, He's got to be the same in principle. He's got to be the same in power. He's got to be the same in attitude. He's got to be the same in every way that He was.