Heb 1:1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
Heb 1:2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
Heb 1:3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
Gen 1:25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Col 1:20 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.
Col 1:21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
Col 1:12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
Col 1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
Col 1:14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
Col 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
Col 1:16 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 1:17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
Col 1:18 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.
Col 1:19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
Col 1:20 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.
Col 1:21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
Col 1:22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
Col 1:23 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;
Col 1:24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:
Col 1:25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
Col 1:26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
Col 1:27 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:
*THE DISCIPLES, EVEN
WALKING WITH JESUS, THEY DIDN'T HAVE NO ONENESS.
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157The disciples, even walking with
Jesus, they didn't have no oneness.They didn't have
any unity. No, they argued, "Who's going to be bishop after this. Who's
the greatest among us?" They couldn't even believe Jesus. They couldn't
understand Him. "Thou speakest in riddles. Tell us plainly what You mean."
There was no unity between Jesus and the disciples, or
disciples to Jesus, and the disciples among one another.
163Yes, disciples had no unity.
They could not understand Jesus. They said, "Aw, who can understand these
things?" See, God wasn't in them yet. They were just associated in
fellowship.
They just associated with Him. That's many a good man today. They didn't drink,
lie, steal, nothing, but they didn't have that
oneness of God. They wasn't one with
God yet. See,
they couldn't be. Oh, they done miracles. They cast out devils. That ain't
a--that ain't a...
***THEN THEY HAD ONENESS WITH GOD. GOD WAS
IN THEM.
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165Now, then came Pentecost; God
made them one again. Oh, my. Then they had oneness with
God. God was in them. Now, Acts, if you're putting it down, Acts 4:32, the Bible said that they were with one heart, one soul, and
one mind. Oh, brother. Why?They had been restored back to the original again. The only thing that they had
left to be disposed of was an old city, or they lived in here, an old body
called a city or a temple, that they lived in here, that had to rot, because it
has to die and corrupt. But in spirit, and life, and in
purpose, and in vision, and everything, they were one with God.
Oh, Adam, my dejected friend, don't let Satan tell you his
lie again. Don't let that happen. Don't let Satan tell you that the Word don't
mean just what It says. That's right. The Word means... Yeah, here not...
*GOD'S ONLY PLAN TO BRING BELIEVERS TO HIMSELF IN A TRUE ONENESS IS
RECEIVING THE HOLY GHOST.
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167I was talking on the Name of Jesus
Christ baptism. That's right, a revelation of that come. That's the Truth. But
what did a bunch of people do? Gathered it right out here and put a
denomination out of it, made another tower of Babel, same thing, throwed it
right into it. Certainly. Luther done the same thing. Wesley done the same
thing; John Smith done the same thing, Alexander Campbell done the same thing.
Pentecost done the same thing. God deals with individuals
keeping His Word. God's only plan to bring believers to
Himself in a true oneness is receiving the Holy Ghost.Then here's how...
The Word is truth. That's what vindicates the truth. If you got all these other truths and then with the Word
(Amen.), then you know you're coming home.
***HE'S THE ONE THAT'LL MAKE THE ONENESS
BETWEEN GOD AND MAN.
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171We're coming down to the end
now. Watch. God sent the Holy Ghost, and the Holy Ghost
is God Himself. He's the One that'll make the oneness between God and man. Let's find out. Now, let's...
Now, I want your undivided attention for the next five minutes or so. Watch.
Man under the devil's plan has tried to denominate the
church into oneness. They have tried to educate the church into oneness, you
know that, through education, through denomination. They're
trying right now, the World Council of Churches, going on to try to bring all
the Catholic and Protestants together and make them a one.What
is it? A plan of the devil.
You say, "You're mighty little to say that." I'm
mighty little,but my God's Word is great big, I'll tell you
that. Heavens and earth will pass away, but It won't. It ain't he that says it,
it's He that--He that--He that said it first. I'm just saying what He said; I'm
confessing His Word.
Ecc 12:1 Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
Ecc 12:2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
Ecc 12:3 In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,
Ecc 12:4 And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;
Ecc 12:5 Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
Ecc 12:6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
Ecc 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Ecc 12:8 Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
Ecc 12:9 And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.
Ecc 12:10 The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.
Ecc 12:11 The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.
Ecc 12:12 And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Ecc 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
Ecc 12:14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
Rom 5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
Rom 5:10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
Rom 5:11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
Rom 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
Rom 5:13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Rom 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
Rom 5:15 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
Rom 5:16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.
Rom 5:17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
Rom 5:18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
Rom 5:19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
Rom 5:20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
Rom 5:21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
Mat 2:1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
Mat 2:2 Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
Mat 2:3 When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
Mat 2:4 And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.
Mat 2:5 And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet,
Mat 2:6 And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.
Mat 2:7 Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, enquired of them diligently what time the star appeared.
Mat 2:8 And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also.
Mat 2:9 When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.
Mat 2:10 When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.
Mat 2:11 And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.
Mat 2:12 And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
Luk 2:7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
Joh 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
*AND THAT'S WHY HE IS GOD; HE CAN TAKE SOMETHING THAT'S NOTHING, AND MAKE
SOMETHING OUT OF IT.
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19Thinking of Bethlehem, and why did it happen to be that
it was chosen to be the birthplace of the King of kings? And, you know, Bethlehem is
a small place, very small town. I've often wondered why God didn't choose a
more religious place for it, for this great event, such as Shiloh. Shiloh
was the first place the tent--the ark was set after it crossed Jordan. Or Gilgal,
another great religious city; or Zion, on the mountain, another great religious
city; or even the proud capital of Jerusalem, with all of its sages and saints
through the age. Why didn't God choose Jerusalem?
GOD'S.WRAPPED.GIFT_JEFF.INV-14 N-8SUNDAY_60-1225
20Why would He choose Bethlehem? Maybe it looked like He might've
chose some place, one of the great cities of refuge, that would've protected
His Son in case that some trouble come up. The refuge places like Ramoth-gilead,
that was a great refuge that was built, for the people could run into these
towers. Kadesh
was another great city of refuge; Hebron, another great city
of refuge.
Why God picked on little Bethlehem, and then did not choose
these greater cities...?... They had greater names, and more of a spiritual
background.
But, you know, God has
a way of doing things, just His Own way about things. I'm so glad He does. See?
Sometimes He
takes things that doesn't have a spiritual background, or doesn't have any background
at all. And that's why He is
God; He can take something that's nothing, and make something out of it.And then that's what makes Him God. That's
what makes us love Him. That's what makes us poor people appreciate Him,
because that even though we, poor, with no background, yet God can do great
things with us if He ever gets us under His control.
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23Joshua, of course, was the one
who taken the children of Israel over and divided up the ground. And this tribe
of Judah was given this portion where Bethlehem is, which is in the upper
northern corner of the province of Judah, a little strip that kind of runs out
like a little peninsula. And in this place, this province, this great province,
it's the northern wheat country, where the wheat belt was, where they raised
lots of wheat and barley.
*NO MATTER WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE TO PEOPLE,
JUST AS LONG AS GOD CHOSE IT.
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24And one of Caleb's sons established and
founded this city. Salmon was his name, he was one of Caleb's sons. If you want
to look that up, I'm skipping over a lot of these Scriptures, but I see some of
the brethren are putting them down. In I Chronicles 2, 15, also you find it in
Matthew 1:5, and where they--he established and founded this great city, which
was a small city. But it's great because of the great things that happened at
this city.
As I've always said, it isn't the great church; it's the
great God in the church. It isn't the great, holy mountain; it's the great Holy
Spirit that was on the mountain. It isn't the holy man; it's the Holy Ghost in
the man.
See, that's the way this city was. It was small in
stature, and more in the valley, and it wasn't too much to look upon; it's
population was small, and is yet today. But it was because God chose it to do
something. That's what I like: something that God chooses. No matter what it looks like to people, just as long as God
chose it.
WHICH MADE JESUS ALSO
PART GENTILE, EARTHLY SPEAKING.
29Now, you see, this harlot was a Gentile, and she was an
ancient grandmother to our Lord Jesus. And also when--when Boaz, her grandson,
come forth and married Ruth the Moabite, he also married into a Gentile. Which made Jesus also part Gentile, earthly speaking.Then when they brought their
child forth, his name was Obed. And Obed had a son, and his name was Jesse. And
Jesse had a son whose name was David. All this taken place in little Bethlehem.
What is it? The lineage of the Lord
Jesus, His background that the great spiritual men were overlooking, or the
so-called spiritual men.
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30And it was on this same grounds that Samuel
the prophet anointed David to be king over Israel, right here at Bethlehem. And
through David came forth the great Son, "Thou Son of David," the Son
that was borned in a little stable manger over by the side of the hill, on the
west side of the city. It was there on that hill where the Angels of God sang
their first Noel.
THE WORD
"BETHLEHEM…"B-E-T-H" MEANS "HOUSE." "E-L"
MEANS "GOD." "E-L-H-A-M" MEANS "BREAD.":
"THE HOUSE OF GOD'S BREAD."
The word "Bethlehem," let's break it down."B-e-t-h" means
"house." "E-l" means "God." "E-l-h-a-m"
means "bread.": "the house of God's Bread."How fitting it was then for the Bread of
Life to come out of Bethlehem, "House of God's Bread." Oh, it's a
beautiful story.
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32It must've been just a little after dark,
and the sun had gone down. The stars probably had been out, and the light was
about two hours gone as the little donkey was placing his little, tired feet up
along the backside of the hill west of Bethlehem, as he watched where he placed
his little hoofs, because his cargo was precious. And Joseph was leading him
gently along, as the little trio started up the hill, or been traveling all day
long, coming from down to Nazareth. And she was expecting to be mother at any
time, way past due, maybe.
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33But all things are foreordained of God,
that works together for good to them that love Him. It was ordained of God that
there should be a heartless king in that day, the bloodthirsty Herod. God knew
about that. God knew about the taxes, and how this brutal government did not
have no thoughts of the mercy on that poor mother that was just about to be
ready to deliver her firstborn Son just in a few days. But he commanded that
they all should come to their native birthplace and pay taxes, "No matter
what condition she's in, she's got to come, anyhow." God knew all about
that. He foreknew all things. And He--He knows all things (See?) and He makes
everything work together for good.
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34The little trio was making no fuss about
it, as they come up the hill. Finally, after much groaning, the little
donkey... I can see them as they'd stop at the top of the hill, where they come
up from the west side, from Nazareth, coming over. And after they topped the
hill, to look down into the valley where little Bethlehem laid... Many torches
was burning. Many people had gathered from all over Galilee to come into their
birthplace there at Bethlehem, and through the province to be taxed of the
Roman government. No matter what conditions, they'd stroll along the road, the
sick and the needy, and the bedridden, the leper, the cancered,
the--the--the--the poor, the lame, the halt, the blind. All had to come,
because it was a government order. And Herod was behind it, and it must be
done.
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35And as our little party stops at the top of
the hill, there must've been a large rock laying there. And I can see Joseph
pick her up tenderly in his arms, and help her off the little mule, and--and
set her up on the side of the rock. And the little mule sighed for his breath.
And as Joseph then walked a few steps forward, looked down into little
Bethlehem, and seen the streets crowded, and the roaring, the torches a-burning
in the streets, and the yells of the people, and they was laying in the yards
and in the courts, and all outside the city gates. Must've been some sight.
GOD'S.WRAPPED.GIFT_JEFF.INV-14 N-8SUNDAY_60-1225
36Joseph must've said something like this,
"Mary, dear, just think, just beyond the city on the north side, that's
where Ruth the Moabite gleaned yonder in the fields of Boaz. Yonder, just
beyond that, up over the mountain yonder, is where David with his slingshot
took the lion to the ground, and pulled the sheep from his mouth. Must've been
there, that where Joshua stood here with his gleaming sword, the fearless
warrior of our people, and divided the lands, and give this inheritance to the
tribe of Judah, to which we are--we are lineage to." And, at different
things, of how that he must've been explaining to her what taken place.
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37And then to hear no sound from behind him,
he must've turned to look, to see if she was still setting on the rock. And
when he turned, and he seen her pretty face turned towards the skies, he didn't
have to ask any more, because the reflection of the Star was looking back
through her eyes. He knew she was looking at something.
And she looked at him, and said, "Joseph, have you
noticed the Star hanging yonder?"
And when he looked in a surprise, say, "I hadn't noticed
It before, dear."
"Well, it's been following us ever since the sun went
down. I've watched it. It must mean something, because I have the most
wonderful feeling."
You know, God does things like that sometimes for His
people, shows us a Light, or some way that we can know that He's near and He's
on the scene. And no matter what the world has to say or do, He's still there,
and everything will be all right. He just witnesses it back by the Holy Spirit,
that we can feel It.
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42And Joseph might've said something like this. "Mary, you know what? I've never been so happy in all my life when
I've been drove around by the Roman government; but yet I have never been so
happy as I am right now, and I don't know why. It seems like there's a
sacredness over the little city tonight, where we roamed when we were boys and
girls, back in our teenage and school age."
***THE GREATEST THING WAS EVER WRAPPED IN
HUMAN FLESH WAS WRAPPED IN IT
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43Way into the East, and many
hundreds of miles away from there, the Magi was already on their road. They'd
seen His Star, and was coming to worship God's little Gift Package that He was sending
to the world.
Just a little while
from then, and the world was going to receive its greatest Gift that it ever
received, a littlePackage wrapped up, a little, first little Christmas Package that was
ever wrapped in all the world, God wrapped It up.
I want to break in on my thought, and say this. The greatest thing was ever wrapped in human flesh was
wrapped in It, GodHimself wrapped His Ownself in a Christmas Package and sent it to the
world.
***THAT'S THE REASON
IT'S REJECTED YET TONIGHT
Why did they refuse
It? Why couldn't they see It? Why did they turn It down? Why is it they didn't
want It? The
same reason they don't want It tonight. It wasn't handed to them in the custom
that they were used to gifts being handed.That's the reason It's rejected yet
tonight, is because It's not handed to the people in
the custom that they have been used to receiving gifts.
But God wrapped His Own Package. He's got a right to do
it; He's the One that's a-giving It. He has a right to wrap It any way He wants
to wrap It. Doesn't make any difference how it is, He's
got a right to do it, because He's the One that's giving the--the Gift.
ANOTHER THING, THE
REASON OF IT WAS…
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47Another thing, the reason of it
was, as it was then, so as it wasn't customary for them to receive It the way
It was wrapped.They was expecting something, a gift
coming, that would come down on chariots, with a Angel escort driving fiery
horses. But when It come as a little Baby being born in a manger, little did
they ever know the Scripture said, "I'll give this world a super
sign."
They asked for a sign one day. He said, "I'll give
it to you. It will be the super sign. It'll be a sign that'll last through all
ages. A virgin shall conceive and shall bear a Child, a Son, and they shall
call His Name Emmanuel. That's the super sign. That's the Gift that I'm going
to give." But It didn't come the way they was expecting It, and they
turned It down.
GOD'S GIFT HASN'T COME
THE WAY PEOPLE WANTED IT TO COME, AND SO THEY'VE TURNED IT DOWN.
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49So is it tonight, my brother. God's
Gift hasn't come the way people wanted It to come, and so they've turned It
down.They don't want It. They want It wrapped in the kind of a
goods that they want to wrap It in. They want the tinsel on It. They want
something flowerly, something that's perfumed, something that's glittering,
something that's classic. But God
don't send It all the time like that. He sends It in the power, the way He
wants to send It.
ANOTHER THING, IT WAS
BROUGHT BY THE POOR.
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50Another thing, It was brought by
the poor.Mary
and Martha, or Martha, rather, or... Mary and Joseph was very poor people. They
were peasants. And because It was brought by the poor, they didn't want It.
So is it today. When this great Gift of the Church, the
Holy Spirit, falls upon the poor and humble, the rich don't want It. They don't
want to humble themselves.They want It with class, but they don't want It the way God sends
It. Many people wants to receive the Holy Ghost, but--but they want to get
It the way they want It. But, oh, I'm so glad that you
can't do it that way. You have to do it the way God sends It to you, and humble
ourselves to receive It.
Isa 53:1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
Isa 53:2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Isa 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Isa 53:4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
Isa 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Isa 40:28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
Isa 40:29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
Isa 40:30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
Isa 40:31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Heb 1:1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
Heb 1:2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
Heb 1:3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Joh 17:23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
Joh 17:24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
GOD IN CHRIST, CHRIST
IN THE CHURCH
"Ye in
Me, I in you, that they might be one, Father, even as You and I are one." God in Christ, Christ
in the church... See? "Just
as We are One, so they be One."Then
how can you be one? "If ye abide in Me, My Word's in you..." See,
abide... "My Word's in you, then ask what you will."For it isn't you no more, it's the Word that's in you, and the Word is
God.
*BELIEVING IN HIM, YOU CANNOT BELIEVE IN
HIM UNTIL YOU COME IN HIM, OR, HE COMES IN YOU…
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24Jesus said, going to the grave of Lazarus, "I
am the Resurrection and Life. He that believeth in Me, though he be dead, yet
shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die." "Believeth
in Me, not on Me, but in Me." Being in Him, believing. "If ye abide in Me and My Words in you."In Him, believing... Oh, my. I hope the Holy
Spirit gets that right down to you.
Now, you're the little
flock; that's why through the week, praying and asking God, I chose this text
to show you where we stand. Believing in Him, you cannot believe in Him until you come in
Him, or, He comes in you, then you're believing in Him, then you have Eternal
Life.You're believing on
Him until you receive Eternal Life, then Eternal Life is God's Life in you,
then you're believing in Him.
*THAT'S WHAT THE CORRECT UNION OF THE
CHURCH IS: SPIRIT OF HIS SPIRIT, WORD OF HIS WORDS
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30Adam was a part of--or Eve was a
part of Adam; she was flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone. And that's what
the correct union is.That's
what the correct union of the church is: Spirit of His Spirit, Word of His
Words, never deviating from the Word.The
real true believer will not compromise on any Word. Remember, it was just one
Word that Eve compromised on: one Word.But the true
believer won't compromise on any Word. It'll hold the Sword of the Faith
with--in faith, rather, the Sword of the Word, and claim every Divine promise
God made. That's it.
*AND THE ONLY WAY WE CAN UNITE WITH HIM
IS TO COME EVERY BIT OF HIS WORD (THAT'S RIGHT.), TAKE EVERY PROMISE AND
BELIEVE IT.
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31They were God's examples to us, what we should be, then
ever present, never failing. When they spoke, God answered. He watched them
daily. Night, when they'd lay down to sleep, He
watched over them. In the daytime He guided them, fed them, loved them,
communed with them constantly all the time.They were in God's image, and God was in them.
That's what makes a fellowship. That's what makes the union is God in His
church. That's the union.Much
could be said, got many places to go.
United with Him is
Eternal Life. And
the only way we can unite with Him is to come every bit of His Word (That's
right.), take every promise and believe it.
*BUT AS LONG AS HE'S IN THE PATH OF DUTY,
GOD'S OBLIGATED TO HIM, KNOWING THAT HE'S JUST A MAN OR A WOMAN.
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33We know we make mistakes, but you mustn't look at that. It's not your mistakes, because you're always going to have them.But, you see,
it's following His rules, following what He said do.Stumble
and falling doesn't have one thing to do with It.A real true servant, if he'll stumble, he'll
get up again.If he wobbles, God pulls him right back in the path, as long as he's
in the path of duty.But if he's
off of the path of duty, God's not obligated to him.But as long as he's in the path of duty, God's
obligated to him, knowing that he's just a man or a woman. He's
obligated to that person as long as they're in the path of duty.
*SO YOU CAN'T HAVE A CORRECT UNION WITHOUT IT. THE FELLOWSHIP BROKEN...
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72Well, you say, "I know men and women
that didn't teach their children that, and wasn't Christians." The very thing of not leading them to Christ was the
wrongest thing they could ever do besides the other: not to lead them to
Christ.See? So you can't have a correct union without
it. The fellowship broken...
Then as soon as the fellowship was broken between Adam
and Eve... As soon as their fellowship was broke between God and them, then
their fellowship between each other was broke.
Listen. Any time a
church breaks its fellowship to throw itself into an organization, the
fellowship of the believers is broke. We've got to believe with one heart, one mind, and one
accord.That's the way
they was before the union was ever made on the day of Pentecost; one heart one
mind, and one accord.
*AS SOON AS SHE DISBELIEVED GOD'S WORD, SHE ACCEPTED THE LIFE OF THE
DEVIL…..
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75What? Her thinking changed. Oh, yeah, her thinking changed. Her fellowship with her husband wasn't
right. They begin to pass the buck. See? Her thinking was actually changed. Why? She had the life of the devil in her. It's exactly. As soon as she disbelieved God's Word, she accepted the life
of the devil, because she accepted his teaching.
She disbelieved God's Word and it disassociated her from
God, because in her right then was the life of the devil. She had believed his
lie, said, "The fruits is good," and she'd partake them with him.
That's right,
***"SOMEDAY MY OWN LIFE WILL BE GIVE
FOR YOU, THE REAL LIFE THAT'LL DRAW IN THIS UNION AGAIN."
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103Watch her firstborn Cain, a murderer, a
lie, a deceiver, jealous, jealous of his brother. His brother kept
the commandments of God; God had made an atonement by killing an offering and
offering it for them. Watch the ignorance of that now, of Satan,
trying to substitute something. God, the Bible said went and made them aprons
out of skins; to get skins, something died. Adam tried to make hisself some
aprons out of fig leaves. It
wouldn't work, botany life. Life, moving life had to die. So He killed a lower
form of life, and saying in there that "Someday My Own Life will be give
for you, the real Life that'll draw in this union again."Now, we'll get to it in a few
minutes, God willing. "See, here's
a lamb's life. Now, you put this around you and hide your nakedness."
"You mustn't eat apples!" Nonsense. See? "Put these skins
around you." He had to kill
something.
THAT WAS HIS PURPOSE, SCATTER THEM ACROSS THE EARTH SO HE COULD DEAL
INDIVIDUALLY WITH THEM.
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110See, it wasn't that; God don't deal with a
person in a group. God don't deal with you in an organization. He deals with you as an individual, an individual. Individually we are
baptized with the Holy Ghost. Collectively we are
baptized into the body when we're baptized with the Holy Ghost,
individually, each one baptized with the Holy Ghost, God dealing with each one.
That was His purpose, scatter them across the earth so
He could deal individually with them.
***HE PAID THE DEBT OF SIN, NOW, IN ORDER
TO GET ONENESS BETWEEN GOD AND MAN.
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147Now, notice. But now, in this,
Jesus came and He was God. Not only the life of another man could come back on
another man, but the very Life of God, making him a child of God, putting him
back into the same union he was before the fall. Now, we're getting to real
oneness.
He paid the debt of sin, now, in order to get
oneness between God and man. Jesus
could not do it as long as He was here in a body of flesh. So He had to become
the complete sin-offering to take away the guilt of the believer (See?), take
it away so that the Holy Ghost could come into man, and make man and God
oneness again. See, there had to be something to re-establish.
***THE DEBT WAS PAID WHEN JESUS DIED.
The debt of sin was paid. Jesus had to do this to send
the--the--the Holy Ghost back upon to unite people again like it was in the
garden of Eden. The debt was paid when Jesus died. That
settled it. Amen, brother. If I could only get it to soak in.
See?
The debt is paid. Hallelujah to the Lamb. The debt is
paid. And every man and woman hearing me this morning, or will hear me by the
tape, your penalty is paid. Don't you disbelieve God's Word again. Come back to
the Word. Don't believe it... He was the Word. Glory. I feel like shouting,
honest I do. The penalty is paid. It's all over. No wonder Angels screamed and
sang, and the anthems of heaven rang out. Yes, sir, the lost sheep was found. A
propitiation was made for him to be restored again, the waters of separation,
God's Word that washes him from His iniquity, when the Word died in my place
and was resurrected again and become preeminent in my life, in my heart. Amen.
AND THE VERY FATHER
THAT SENT THE SON, CAME IN THE SON. UNITY IS ONE.
No matter, that goes to show you, brother. Listen close
now; I want this to stick real deep down in your heart. See? God's got a plan.
Outside of that plan, I don't care how much wisdom's behind it, how many fine
millions of dollars of buildings, how many schools of theology, how many holy
men and holy this, and holy, holy, holy, makes no difference at all; if one
Word of God's Bible is denied, it's of the devil.
Now, I've proved that to you by the written Word of God from New to Old
Testament, and I'll bring her on down to the day if you'll just set with me a
few minutes...?...
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159The disciples who walked hand and hand with Jesus, slept with Him, eat
with Him, watched His miracles, and associated with Him, close as any brother
could be, and yet they didn't have it. They wasn't fit to preach the Gospel.
Jesus said, "Don't you preach any
more; don't you even try. You wait up there at the city of Jerusalem. I'm going
to send the promise, that's been given you, upon you. That'll unify you
then."
"Now, Father, I pray that they'll be one just
as You and I are one. And I... As My Father has sent Me to preach the Gospel, so
send I you."
And the very Father that sent the Son, came in the Son.
Unity is one.He
said, "If I do not the works of My Father, then don't believe Me. But if
My works that I do speak so loud, you're perfectly deaf, dumb, and blind if you
don't see it."
Col 1:26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
Col 1:27 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:
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