26-1102P_OUR GOD WHO IS RICH IN MERCY

Eph 2:1  And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; 

Eph 2:2  Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: 

Eph 2:3  Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. 

Eph 2:4  But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 

Eph 2:5  Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 

*ALL THESE THINGS THAT WE WERE, "BUT GOD"! THAT MADE THE CHANGE RIGHT THERE, "GOD WHO IS RICH IN MERCY"!

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  36      I want you to notice here of the prophet, apostle, rather, Paul, who--who, how he made mention of this, how, "You has He quickened, who were once dead. You hath He quickened, who were once dead, dead in sin and trespasses; walking after the things of the world, the desire of the flesh, and fulfilling the desire of the mind. Has..."

37    What caused this change, you see? And what caused it, "from one time being dead," to quicken? Quicken means "made alive." There was a change, from death unto Life. There is no other, there is no other thing that could happen to any person, so great, as to change him from death to Life. A man, if he was dying, physically, and could be healed physically, that would be a great thing, but nothing so great as when he is spiritually dead and God has quickened him to Life.

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  38      "You once, in times past, dead." You were dead. Even many here tonight, one time, can look back and know that you were dead. But now why aren't you dead tonight, as you were then? You deserve to be that way, because you was a sinner, "but God Who is rich in mercy." That's the--that's the thing, "God Who was rich." All these things that we were, "but God"! That made the change right there, "God Who is rich in mercy"!

39    Oh, I'm so glad for that, that He being rich in mercy. If He was just rich in money, if He was just rich in materials, which He is, but yet the greatest thing is being rich in mercy. Oh, what a great word that is, how that we were once dead.

*AND UNTIL WE GET TO THE PLACE THAT OUR OWN IDEAS AND OUR OWN THINKING IS COMPLETELY GONE AND IT'S ROTTED AWAY FROM US, THEN THE GERM OF LIFE CAN BEGIN TO LIVE.

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  40      And we was speaking the other night on how the seed must die. And everything around that germ of life must not only die, but rot. If it doesn't rot, it cannot live. And rot is, "completely done away with; it's finished." And until we get to the place that our own ideas and our own thinking is completely gone and it's rotted away from us, then the germ of life can begin to live.

Psa 25:8  Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way. 

Psa 25:9  The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way. 

Psa 25:10  All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies. 

Psa 25:11  For thy name's sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great. 

Psa 25:12  What man is he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose. 

Psa 25:13  His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth. 

Psa 25:14  The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant. 

Psa 25:15  Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net. 

Psa 31:5  Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth. 

Psa 31:6  I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD. 

Psa 31:7  I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities; 

Psa 31:8  And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room. 

Psa 31:9  Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly. 

Psa 31:10  For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed. 

Psa 31:11  I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me. 

Psa 31:12  I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. 

Psa 31:13  For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life. 

Psa 31:14  But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God. 

Psa 31:15  My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me. 

Psa 31:16  Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake. 

Psa 31:17  Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave. 

Psa 31:18  Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous. 

Psa 31:19  Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men! 

 

26-1030A_IN HIS PRESENCE PT-8 (RECOGNIZING HIM AT HIS WORD)

Mat 12:38  Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. 

Mat 12:39  But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: 

Mat 12:40  For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. 

Mat 12:41  The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here. 

Mat 12:42  The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here. 

Luk 11:27  And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked. 

Luk 11:28  But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it. 

Luk 11:29  And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet. 

Luk 11:30  For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation. 

Luk 11:31  The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here. 

Luk 11:32  The men of Nineve shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here. 

*IT GOES RIGHT BY THE PEOPLE AND THEY DON'T KNOW IT.

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  7      The unrecognized Presence! What could these people be thinking of? God has always, it's been that way every time He come. When Jesus was here the first time, He said, "You--you whiten and you garnish the walls and the tombs of the prophets, and you put them in there." See, something happens, and it passes by. "And God hides it from the eyes of wise and prudent, and reveals it to babes such as will learn." Jesus thanked the Father for doing such. See? It goes right by the people and they don't know it.

 

*"A WICKED AND AN ADULTEROUS GENERATION WILL SEEK AFTER A SIGN." NOW YOU KNOW WHAT I THINK HE WAS DOING? HE WAS PROPHESYING, "A WICKED AND ADULTEROUS GENERATION."

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  135      Like in the days of Jesus, same thing. Watch Him standing here now. He said, "As it was in the days of Jonas, in Jonah; for as Jonah was in the belly of the whale, three days and nights, so must the Son of man."

136    He said, "A wicked and an adulterous generation will seek after a sign." Now you know what I think He was doing? He was prophesying, "A wicked and adulterous generation."

137    I wonder if any man in his right mind could deny that we are not living in a weak and an adulterous generation, when homosexuals, perversion! And the divorce rates in America is higher than any other nation in the world. And the whole world has gone into a chaos of it. Three out of every four, nearly, is divorced; around, taking the whole thing around in ten years of marriage. See? Think of it! Divorce, marry again and marry again, divorce and marry again. "They were eating, drinking, marrying wives and given in marriage." Look at the hour we're living in. When was it ever in such a chaos?

*... THERE HAS TO COME FORTH A--A--A POWER, THE HOLY SPIRIT HIMSELF, TO RIPEN, OR TO VINDICATE, OR TO PROVE, OR TO MAKE MANIFESTED THAT WHAT HE'S PREDICTED WOULD HAPPEN IN THIS DAY.

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  52      See how perfectly the Scripture is! "A day that won't be called day or night." Fruit cannot ripen unless the sun ripens it. No matter how much you preach, whatever you do, it cannot be ripened, it cannot be manifested, it cannot be vindicated; only by Him Who said, "I am the Light of the world," the Word. So there has to come forth a--a--a Power, the Holy Spirit Himself, to ripen, or to vindicate, or to prove, or to make manifested that what He's predicted would happen in this day. The evening Light produces that. What a time!

*THERE IS ONLY ONE CAN SEE IT; THAT'S THE ONE WHO IS PREDESTINATED TO SEE IT.

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  56      Now, the man comes forth, and the woman takes his name. These blinded Gentiles who can't see that Name, "the Lord Jesus Christ," in baptism! It's just too bad, but it has to be that way. The Jews, they had to--they had to not see that. There is only one can see it; that's the one who is predestinated to see it. Otherwise, you'll never see it.

The Jews could not see that being their Messiah. And, yet, they were scholars and theologians, man of great renown scholarship, read the same Bible that you read. Now, after it's been made known to us, we can see it plain, that was Messiah. But, they couldn't see it, neither can they see it today. They are prophesied to be blinded, too.

57    The church, this day, is prophesied to be blinded, to reject the evening-time Message. Revelations 3 said so, "Thou art wretched, miserable," notice the bride's condition the other night, or the church, "naked, blind, and don't know it." Lord Jesus, be merciful to us! The Bible said she was "naked." I never saw it till just now. Laodicea church was naked. And when she appeared the other night, she was "naked," never noticed it, "and didn't know it."

58      Oh, how thankful! How, no wonder we are so grateful! I feel that we're not grateful enough for the things that God is making known to us.

*AFTER TWO THOUSAND YEARS, WE STILL SEE JESUS CHRIST IN THE POWER OF HIS RESURRECTION...DOING THE THINGS THAT HE DID THEN AND PROMISED TO DO.

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  138      "A wicked and an adulterous generation will seek after a sign, notice, and they will receive a sign." What? This generation. "For as Jonah was in the belly of the whale, three days and nights, the Son of man must be in the heart of the earth three days and nights." What sign will that wicked and adulterous generation receive? The sign of the resurrection.

139    And today, after two thousand years, we still see Jesus Christ in the power of His resurrection, standing among us, doing the things that He did then and promised to do. "A wicked and an adulterous generation will seek after a sign, always wanting to 'show me this, and if you can do this and do this.' They'll get it, the sign of the resurrection." He is the same yesterday, today, and forever; the Word made manifest, dwelling among us. How we should thank God for His great sign!

* THE LITTLE QUEEN'S HEART BEGAN TO HUNGER TO GO UP AND FIND OUT ABOUT IT. SEE, SHE WAS ORDAINED TO LIFE.

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  147      Well, "faith cometh by hearing." The little queen's heart began to hunger to go up and find out about it. See, she was ordained to Life.

148    Notice now, the first thing to do now, her being a pagan, she had to go get permission from her priest, to go. So I can imagine see her go over to her priest, and say, "Holy father, I hear they're having a great revival up there in--in Palestine. I'd like permission to go up and see for myself."

149    "Now, my child, now you don't want to get mixed up in some... After all, we're not cooperating in that revival, so you--you cannot go. See, that's just a bunch of nonsense. There is--there is nothing to it. Them people claim they've come through a Red Sea, and they done all this, that. There is nothing to it. If there was anything like that happening, it would be right here in our church." We still got pagans.

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  150      So we find out that she begin to hunger. She said, "Now look," she said, "they tell me, that, 'Their God up there is represented in a human being, and his wisdom is beyond anything. His discernment is wonderful.'"

"Oh, there is nothing to that."

She said, "But I--I might..."

151    "Well, look, you're a queen, you can't be associated in a bunch of people like that. That's, you can't do that. That bunch of people, known all over the world as religious fanatics. You can't do that."

*...SHE'LL RISE IN THE DAY OF JUDGMENT AND CONDEMN THIS GENERATION, 'CAUSE SHE REPENTED AND BELIEVED THE MESSAGE THAT SOLOMON WAS PREACHING, AND BELIEVED ON GOD.

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168    Finally, let's say her prayer card was called, which probably wasn't, but her time come to come before Solomon. And the Bible said, that, "When she come to stand before Solomon, that God let Solomon know all her secrets. There was nothing hid." Then the miracle was done on her.

169    Then she turned to the audience, and she said, "All these things that I have heard is true, and it's even greater than I heard about." See? Oh, there was no more life left in her, her breath was taken from her, 'cause here was a man that didn't know her, a stranger, revealed the things that she wanted to know.

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  170      Oh, and Jesus standing there, which was more than Solomon! He was the fullness of the Godhead bodily. He was the virgin-born Son of God. He clothed upon Him, and Jehovah Himself manifested in the flesh. And here He was standing there in the fullness, and they said they wouldn't believe Him, a greater discernment. See, He was Solomon plus David, plus all the rest of them was all in Him. All the prophets was wound up in Him, a greater than Solomon.

171    And to even at that day, He said, "If you speak them words against Me, I'll forgive you. But when the Holy Ghost comes, it'll be greater than it is now, and more condemnation."

172    And here we stand today seeing that very same God do the very same thing! I believe she'll rise in the Day of Judgment and condemn this generation, 'cause she repented and believed the message that Solomon was preaching, and believed on God. She seen something real.

*...SHE'LL RISE IN THE DAY OF JUDGMENT AND CONDEMN THIS GENERATION, 'CAUSE SHE REPENTED AND BELIEVED THE MESSAGE THAT SOLOMON WAS PREACHING, AND BELIEVED ON GOD.

168    Finally, let's say her prayer card was called, which probably wasn't, but her time come to come before Solomon. And the Bible said, that, "When she come to stand before Solomon, that God let Solomon know all her secrets. There was nothing hid." Then the miracle was done on her.

169    Then she turned to the audience, and she said, "All these things that I have heard is true, and it's even greater than I heard about." See? Oh, there was no more life left in her, her breath was taken from her, 'cause here was a man that didn't know her, a stranger, revealed the things that she wanted to know.

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  170      Oh, and Jesus standing there, which was more than Solomon! He was the fullness of the Godhead bodily. He was the virgin-born Son of God. He clothed upon Him, and Jehovah Himself manifested in the flesh. And here He was standing there in the fullness, and they said they wouldn't believe Him, a greater discernment. See, He was Solomon plus David, plus all the rest of them was all in Him. All the prophets was wound up in Him, a greater than Solomon.

171    And to even at that day, He said, "If you speak them words against Me, I'll forgive you. But when the Holy Ghost comes, it'll be greater than it is now, and more condemnation."

172    And here we stand today seeing that very same God do the very same thing! I believe she'll rise in the Day of Judgment and condemn this generation, 'cause she repented and believed the message that Solomon was preaching, and believed on God. She seen something real.

* AND THAT COULD BE THE RAPTURE.

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39    Now look. You know, the--the Coming of the Lord is going to be a secret coming. He said, "There will be two in the bed, and I'll take one and leave one," that's where the--the night is. "Two in the field, I'll take one and leave one."

40    You know, there is so many people disappear every day, off the face of the earth, that nobody can account for. One of these days it might be that people might say, "Well, you mean the tribulation, the thing is on us now? I thought the Church was to go before the tribulation." They don't realize and understand that the Rapture could take place and they would know nothing about it; it's the secret going of the Church.

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  41      And, think, people will go right on preaching, saying they believe they're getting saved, and adding in the church, and building churches, and going on just like they did in the days of Noah, and so forth, and not know it; and the Rapture done past, "it's already happened and you didn't know it." There is hundreds of people disappear from the earth and people know nothing about where they went to, they can't account for it; somebody was going somewhere, they never hear from them no more. And that could be the Rapture.

 

*YOU BETTER BUCKLE UP THAT ARMOR. YOU BETTER TAKE THAT WHOLE WORD OF GOD AND HOLD ONTO IT, AND QUIT THIS HOLLYWOOD ACTING AROUND HERE.

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  42      I tell you, friends, just because that we are members of the church, or something like that, that doesn't mean too much to us. You better buckle up that armor. You better take that whole Word of God and hold onto It, and quit this Hollywood acting around here. It's got right into the church, and it's a shame. But Hollywood glows, just makes a bright light, and the church today is trying to compare with Hollywood. Christ is not in Hollywood. Christ is in the individual. Hollywood glow or... Hollywood glares, while the Gospel glows with humility. God ain't in these great fine fancy places and all this stuff that we see. He comes in in humility, in form of meekness and gentleness, pass right through.

*HE IDENTIFIED HIMSELF PROPERLY TO THE BELIEVERS THAT DAY, THEM WHO WERE LOOKING FOR IT.

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  43    And if you're acquainted with the Word, you'll see It. He that has an eye, to hear, "let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches," see now, now today, which was identified.

  44      He identified Himself properly to the believers that day, them who were looking for it. Look at Peter and Andrew. Look at Nathanael, no question in his mind. Look at the woman at the well, there was no question in it.

 

Joh 15:3  Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. 

Joh 15:4  Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 

Joh 15:5  I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. 

Joh 15:6  If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. 

Joh 15:7  If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. 

Joh 15:8  Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. 

Joh 15:9  As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. 

Joh 15:10  If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. 

Joh 15:11  These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. 

 

26-1026P_FORSAKING ALL PT-6

Mar 10:28  Then Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee. 

Luk 14:25  And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them, 

Luk 14:26  If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. 

Luk 14:27  And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. 

Luk 14:28  For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? 

Luk 14:29  Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, 

Luk 14:30  Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish. 

Luk 14:31  Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand? 

Luk 14:32  Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace. 

Luk 14:33  So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple. 

2Ti 3:1  This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 
2Ti 3:2  For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 
2Ti 3:3  Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 
2Ti 3:4  Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 
2Ti 3:5  Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 
2Ti 3:6  For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 
2Ti 3:7  Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

*I THINK WE SHOULD BE THE HAPPIEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD TO SEE THE LIVING GOD MOVING AROUND US LIKE THIS, KNOWING THAT WE HAVE FORSAKEN ALL TO FOLLOW HIM.

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  E-63    Brother, if that ain't better than old creeds and stuff of the world, and belonging to some another there that's denying all that... Why, I think we should be the happiest people in the world to see the living God moving around us like this, knowing that we have forsaken all to follow Him. Amen. That makes me feel religious. Forsaking all to follow the Lord Jesus. The same today, you got to forsake all. Just like they did back there, you have to do too.

*HE BECAME WEAK THAT HE MIGHT BE OUR STRENGTH.

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  E-70    He--He gave his strength. He became weak that He might be our strength. He is our all-sufficient Strength. We don't need no other strength but the strength of the Lord Jesus. "He is my Strength from day to day. Without Him I would fall," said the poet. How wonderful.

What you forsake... What you receive for what you have forsook, my... Forsake the world. Forsake your own ideas. Forsake your doubts. Forsake your flusterations. Forsake it, and receive Him. Believe Him.

*... FORSAKEN HIS SONSHIP AND BECAME SIN AND TOOK OUR SINS, THAT HE MIGHT TAKE SINNERS AND MAKE THEM SONS.

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  E-86    If the spirit of a--a gangster was in me, I'd have guns on me. If the spirit of a painter was in me, I could paint the picture of a painter... he could do. If the spirit of a mechanic was on me, I could tell you what was wrong with your car. See? And if the Spirit of Jesus Christ is in me, I'll do the works of Christ because it's the life of Christ in you. See? Manifested in who? Manifested in who? He be--forsaken His Sonship and became sin and took our sins, that He might take sinners and make them sons. He became me that I might become Him. He become a sinner that I might become a son of God. Oh, it--it's striking what He done. See, He taken your place that you might take His place. You're joint heirs with Him in the Kingdom. He become a sinner like you, your sins placed upon Him that He might take you and make you a fellow citizen of heaven and set you with Him in God's Kingdom. There you are: put His Spirit in you. And if His Spirit's in you, the works that He did you'll do also.

*NOW, WE FIND OUT THAT THEY FORSOOK ALL, AND THEY FOLLOWED HIM, AND SAW THAT HE WAS THE MESSIAH.

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  E-90    Now, we find out that they forsook all, and they followed Him, and saw that He was the Messiah. Andrew went and told Peter, said, "You know what our father told us? (Something on this order, perhaps.) We know when Messiah cometh. Moses told us that the Lord our God would raise up a prophet just like him. And we know that we've been taught if there's one among us who is spiritual or a prophet, what he says comes to pass, then hear him. If it doesn't come to pass, then don't hear him. And we know that the Messiah will be the--not only a prophet. He will be the God-prophet. So this Man is that Guy."

* IF THEY COME THE DOOR, THEY'D BE ROBED WITH THE SAME KIND OF A SPIRIT; THEY'D HAVE THE SAME KIND OF LIFE; ...

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E-42    He come up man's way. He come up some way, the church's way. He come in some other way. See? But God has a Way provided. And that Way is Jesus. And when you come by Jesus, you take on Jesus by a spiritual baptism. And you're dead and take on Christ by the new birth. And you're borned again and filled with His Spirit. And how you know? Because that your life would compare with those of the Bible, those apostles who was robed in His righteousness. Then why can't people, who claim to be Christians, believe in signs and wonders, Divine healing, the working of the Holy Spirit? Why, they should do it. The thing of it is, they've come in some other way besides the Door. If they come the Door, they'd be robed with the same kind of a Spirit; they'd have the same kind of life; they'd have the same kind of testimony. They would be the same people.

E-43    Now, you take, many times, people who climb some other way will have that disgraceful name. Say, "That's a bunch of holy-rollers." Did you know that's what the apostles was called? Do you know, John the Baptist was declared a wild man? Did you know Jesus Christ was declared by the Sanhedrin Council an insane Man? "Now we know you're mad." "Mad" means "insanity." You know all the apostles was declared insane?

But I like what Paul said, "In the way that's called heresy, so worship I the God of our fathers." Oh, because he'd been robed in that same righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ.

That's what it is today, friend. So many people are trying to get in, but they're not taking God's provided entrance. And if you go any other way besides Jesus Christ... And when the apostles come into Jesus Christ, when the early Church came into Jesus Christ, they received the baptism of the Holy Ghost. It made them a different people. It made them act different, live different. Their whole--their whole life was motivated different. They had different motives. They had different objectives. Everything was different when they come into Christ.

* EVERYTHING'S DIFFERENT WHEN YOU COME INTO CHRIST.

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  E-44    Everything's different when you come into Christ. It makes you forsake the world. It makes you forsake the things of the world. You'll turn off your TV any time to go to church on Wednesday night, if you've ever come in on Christ. When there's a prayer meeting, why, there's nothing can keep you away from that prayer meeting. When the love of God that's in your heart that was in Christ Jesus, will pull you to the church, and when you get there, and you get that overflowing joy, there's something will make you sing out with all that's in you the praises of God.

*AND IF A MAN REALLY GETS A HOLD OF GOD, GOD GETS INTO THE MAN'S HEART...

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E-20    ..... And if a man really gets a hold of God, God gets into the man's heart, don't worry, sparks will be flying from every side; because he's deep enough in God, and his whole life is rooted and grounded in Christ. You see?

Therefore, we know that it isn't just lazy preachers. It's because that the--the convert doesn't go deep enough till he loses the sight of the world and the things of the world. If he ever gets close enough to God, he doesn't do that.

But we find out that the churches change and the people changes. The roads changes; the scenes changes; the politics changes. But there's one thing that does not change; that's God. He remains the same. "I am God and I change not." No matter how long it is, God has never changed one bit, and He cannot change. What a place. The reason He cannot change is because God is infinite, and anything that's infinite cannot change.

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  E-21    .....Infinite is infinity. There's--there's no beginning or no end. He--He is almighty, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient; knows all things, all places, all times, all powerful. He's God, and He cannot change.

Now, I can make a decision, and say it's going to be this way. And I'm finite. I'll have to change, because things come up that I--I'll have to say, "Well, I was wrong." But God can't do that, because His one decision is that forever. He cannot change His decision. He cannot change it.

* HE KNOWS YOUR NEEDS. HE KNOWS HOW TO BRING IT TO YOU.

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E-37    ... They wanted a king to deliver them. That's what they expected God to send to them, was a king to deliver them, a mighty king that would march like David. The Son of David would rise up, come down the corridors of heaven, walk down to the earth in a full Angel salute, and the Father would look out of the heaven and say, "I'm sending down to you now the Messiah." And they had it all fixed up that that's the way He was supposed to come.

But what did they get? They got a baby instead of a mighty king, a baby borned in a--a little stable, the side of a hillside, a little cave stable with straw, and the manure from the animals, and a baby. But it was a answer of their prayer. He was exactly what they needed; but they wanted it in their own way. They wanted it the way they--they thought was best. But God knows how to send it in the way that He knows is best, because He's an infinite God, and He knows just how to send it.

E-38    He knows your needs. He knows how to bring it to you. But the trouble of it is, because it don't come the way you think it ought to come, then you're all discouraged, and you hand it back to Him. Let's ask Him, and believe that He will send it just the way He wants to send it, and accept it upon the basis. That's right. See?

If you ask Him, don't make Him a liar. He can't lie. He promised, "Ask the Father anything in My Name, I'll do it." Now, God can't lie. Ask Him and it shall be done. "Seek, ye shall find; knock, it'll be opened." We believe that. Certainly we do.

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  E-39    They got a manger. So what did they do? Had this little Babe in a manger, was that the mighty King? They refused Him. Yes, sir. Why? He didn't come the way they expected Him to come. And friends, you might think that was a horrible thing. It was. But you know, we're guilty of the same thing. We are guilty of the same thing. We ask God for things, and then we walk around and... And if He don't just pour something on us and give us something that we think we ought to have, then we just hand it back. See? Don't do that. Ask Him. Stay right with it. Yes, sir, hold on to it if you know it's real.

 

 

26-1023A_IN HIS PRESENCE PT-7 (RECOGNIZING HIM RELEASES FORGIVENESS, POWER, JOY & ETERNAL LIFE)

Mat 12:38  Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. 

Mat 12:39  But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: 

Mat 12:40  For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. 

Mat 12:41  The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here. 

Mat 12:42  The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.

Joh 8:31  Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; 

Joh 8:32  And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. 

Eph 1:7  In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; 

Eph 1:8  Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence; 

Eph 1:9  Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: 

Eph 1:10  That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him: 

Joh 11:25  Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: 

Joh 11:26  And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? 

Php 3:10  That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; 

Php 3:11  If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. 

Php 3:12  Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. 

Php 3:13  Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 

Php 3:14  I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 

Php 3:15  Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. 

Php 3:16  Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing. 

1Jn 2:2  And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. 

1Jn 2:3  And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. 

1Jn 2:4  He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 

1Jn 2:5  But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. 

Joh 17:3  And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. 

*BUT THERE THAT LITTLE WOMAN SEEN HE NEEDED SERVICE. 

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  93      But there that little woman seen He needed service. And she rushed in real quickly, went and got an alabaster box full of oil. Probably had bought it with the money from her prostitution. But what was it? She might have thought, "He is a--He is a Prophet. But I remember another woman in my fix, another character like mine; she had the opportunity and she recognized Him, and she was forgiven." Up there at the well of Sychar, last night we talked of it. "And if I can only get to Him, I know Who He is, I'll do Him a service. If the rest of them, I don't care what they do. I'll do Him a service. I'll recognize He's the Son of God."

*THAT'S THE WAY A REAL PENITENT SINNER FEELS IN HIS PRESENCE, GUILTY!

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  94      She run in. She got real close to Him, and she felt so guilty. That's the way a real penitent sinner feels in His Presence, guilty!

95    And the tears begin to fall, and she was trying to hide them. They dropped on His feet. She was going to anoint Him, but the tears dropping on His feet. And she begin to wipe them, and--and crying, and--and wiping them with her hands. And--and His feet was all getting mussed up with the dirt that was on it; and--and if you want to really believe it, with the stink of the animals off the trail, everyone walked the same trail. And there it was, the stink on Him, sitting there, and her tears was dropping on His feet, and she was trying to wipe them off. And she had no towel.

*HIS FEET, AND WIPE THEM, HER--HER PRETTY HAIR, TAKING THE STINK OFF OF HIM, UPON HERSELF, BEARING HIS REPROACH.

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  96      What is the woman's beauty and honor? Is her hair. That's the reason many of you women today cut it all off. That's wrong. She, she took her hair and begin to wash the... His feet, and wipe them, her--her pretty hair, taking the stink off of Him, upon herself, bearing His reproach. Oh, my! That's when you recognize Who is in your presence. See? Our sisters would have to almost stand on their head, to get enough hair to do that. So there she washed His feet, and wiped them with the hairs of her head, and she kissed His feet.

 

*JESUS NEVER MOVED A FOOT. HE JUST WATCHED HER. 

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  97      And that old Simon standing back there, said, "Huh! Huh!" Oh, I can just see him blow up. He didn't recognize Who He was. Said, "I told you He wasn't a Prophet. If He was a Prophet, He would recognize what kind of a woman that is around Him."

98    Jesus never moved a foot. He just watched her. And she was scared.

99    Then after He had got through, she doing the service to Him, He looked over, said, "Simon, I've got something to say to you. You invited Me here. You brought Me here," in other words, a trump up his sleeve. "You wanted to show Me off. You wanted to prove that I wasn't what I am. And you, when you brought Me here, you should have had My feet washed, but you never. You should give Me oil to anoint My head, but you didn't. You never kissed Me welcome. And this woman, ever since I've been here, has washed My feet with her tears, and wiped them with--with her hair, and constantly has kissed My feet since I've been here. I have something against you, Simon."

 

*SHE RECOGNIZED HIS PRESENCE.RELEASED TO HER, FORGIVENESS OF HER SINS,POWER OF GOD,JOY & ETERNAL LIFE.

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  100      Then He turns to her. I can just imagine seeing her standing there, and her big pretty eyes all stained up, and her face, and where she had grease and--and dust off of the road, on her face. And she thinks, "Now have I done wrong? Have I done wrong?"

101    He said, "And I say unto her, her 'sins which are many, are all forgiven. Go in peace.'"

102    What was it? She recognized. She recognized her opportunity. See? She did it. She did Him a service. The Pharisees didn't do it. She saw it and she recognized His Presence, and what did it do? It washed. What did it release to her? Forgiveness. Released to her, forgiveness of her sins. What did it do also? It also released the power of God, to show to them unbelievers that He was a Prophet. He knowed who she was. It also released joy and power and Eternal Life. It released that.

 

*... AND WHEN THAT GENUINE FAITH, IN GOD, BECAME A POSITIVE THING TO HER... IT RELEASED HIS POWER TO HEAL HER. 

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71      Now, when He is not recognized, His power is al-... is always not revealed, when He is not recognized. No matter how much God is standing present, you've got to believe it. That's all.

72    Like the woman with the blood issue. All them people passing by, and all of them standing up, saying, "There goes the Rabbi. That's the Guy that claims to be a Prophet. This is the fanatic," and all such as that.

73    But what happened? This little woman had an issue of blood, and she had heard about Him. And when she come down there, regardless of what anybody said, she recognized Who He was. And she said, "If I can only touch His garment!" See?

74    And when that genuine faith, in God, became a positive thing to her, what did it release? It released His power to heal her. It touched Him in such a way, He turned around and told her what was wrong with her, said, "Your faith has saved you." What did? Faith!

75    Others standing there might have been sicker than she, but, you see, she recognized His Presence. She knowed that was her opportunity.

 

*BUT WE'VE GOT TO RECOGNIZE HIS PRESENCE. AND NOW HOW YOU RECOGNIZE HIS PRESENCE, IS WHEN THE PROMISED WORD FOR THIS AGE IS MADE MANIFEST...

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 76      If we could only do that tonight, people! If we could only realize that He is appearing to us in these meetings, for one purpose, that's, to release our desires that we have in Him, to us. But we've got to recognize His Presence. And now how you recognize His Presence, is when the promised Word for this age is made manifest, not the promised Word of Moses' age or any other age. Is the promise of the Word for this age!

*THE WOMAN WAS FORGIVEN, AND GIVEN ETERNAL LIFE; BUT HE LOST HIS MIND AND WENT INSANE, AND COMMITTED SUICIDE BY DROWNING HIMSELF UP IN SWITZERLAND.

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  103      But the one who caused a great huge nail to be drove in them precious feet, he never recognized the Presence of God in Him. He also wanted Him to do some cheap trick for him, some entertainment.

104    That's what the world wants, today, is a bunch of entertainment. It don't want the Gospel. They want to be entertained.

105    And Pilate said, "I'd like to desire some miracle from Him, or something like that. Bring Him up here." Right in the Presence of God, and turned It down, because (what?) that he appreciated the--the opinion of the public more than he appreciated having the opportunity to be in the Presence of God. What happened? The woman was forgiven, and given Eternal Life; but he lost his mind and went insane, and committed suicide by drowning himself up in Switzerland.

*HE FORFEITED IT, HE FORFEITED HIS OPPORTUNITY IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD. HE COULD HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN.

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  106      Now, care, so carried away with the popular opinion of that day, that, "He was a Beelzebub; He was just a make-belief; there wasn't really nothing to Him," he, what did he do? He forfeited it, he forfeited his opportunity in the Presence of God. He could have been forgiven. He said, "I have power to crucify You. I have power to release You."

107    He said, "You have no power unless it comes from My Father." He ought to have known, if he'd have knowed the Scripture. And him, being a Jew, should have known that. But, you see, the traditions had got him taught down. That's the way it is today. If he'd have only been taught right! If the man would have believed what the Scriptures had said! But his tradition got him off of it.

*THE PROMISE FOR THIS AGE HAS TO COME TO PASS. HE HAD CLEARLY SHOWED THEM, HE, BY THE SCRIPTURE, AND INVITED THEM TO SEARCH THE SCRIPTURE...

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  118      So many things, look in this days, what He said would take place! Look at the promises that He made, would take place this day. And then examine it, of what is going on, and see where we're at, then you see whether He is still in His Word or not.

119    They wanted to see the sign of Moses, the sign of David. That was not for their age; it was promised for Moses' age and them age. The promise for this age has to come to pass. He had clearly showed them, He, by the Scripture, and invited them to search the Scripture, to see what day they were living in.

120    He is doing the same thing right now! Search the Scripture, you who believe the Bible. What is supposed to take place right here before His Coming?

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  121      Look at the world, in the position; now, that's the world. Look at the church, where it is. Look where it's at, "falling away, lukewarm, Laodicea, putting out the Word." The whole thing going into the big council of churches, the World Council of Churches, forming the mark of the beast; which the Bible proclaims is wrong, and all those things, and yet the Protestants driving right into it, headlong, not knowing the Scripture. Their tradition! Oh, they are wanting a--a--a--a power man, and they're going to get one. They'll see that they get it.

  122      He had, look, but Jesus had perfectly declared Himself exactly Who He was, and had proved to them Who He was, in His age.

*THE LAST SIGN, ACCORDING TO JESUS, HE SAID, "AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF SODOM, SO SHALL IT BE IN THE DAYS WHEN THE SON OF MAN...

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111    And I just wonder if we're not looking too forward ahead for something that's right by us. Wonder if it could be the same way, if we could pass by our opportunity? Remember, as the old types, the types can never break. The last sign, according to Jesus, He said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the days when the Son of man," not Son of God now, "when the Son of man is being revealed." Look at here where it's setting today! Friends, I could tell you some things here which is not right for me to tell you, but it would startle you.

112      I want to ask you a little question while we stop, before we continue on with this service, just a few minutes. I wonder if I could ask you this.

113    Anyone knows that the world, positionally, everything is sitting in order for His Coming. "Earthquakes in divers places; the moon is spurting out red blood, or red volcanic all over, covering it," as Jesus said watch for that sign in the last days; "sea a roaring, men's hearts failing for fear, and perplexed of time, distress between the nations."

*...GIVE THE BEST THAT YOU HAVE (SEE?); GIVE YOUR LIFE; GIVE YOUR TIME; GIVE EVERYTHING TO CHRIST.

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  82    .....See it just goes to show: give the best that you have (See?); give your life; give your time; give everything to Christ. And that same Spirit that lived in Christ lives in you, and--and your influence in your neighborhood and upon the people that you deal with, will be so much like Christ till it'll work the same thing Christ did.

  84    .....Always do right, your duty to God; think right, that's your duty to yourself; and you've got to come out right. That's right, you just have to.

 

oh 15:3  Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. 

Joh 15:4  Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 

Joh 15:5  I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. 

Joh 15:6  If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. 

Joh 15:7  If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. 

1Th 1:2  We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers; 

1Th 1:3  Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father; 

1Th 1:4  Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God. 

1Th 1:5  For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake. 

1Th 1:6  And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost: 

1Th 1:7  So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia. 

1Th 1:8  For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.