22-1024P_PERFECT STRENGTH IN PERFECT WEAKNESS PT.18 (ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD ACCORDING TO GOD'S PURPOSE)
Psa 89:49 Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?
Psa 89:50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;
Psa 89:51 Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
Psa 89:52 Blessed be the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen.
Rom 8:27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
Rom 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
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:
Eph 1:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
Eph 1:12 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
Eph 1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
*GOD HAS A TIME AND A REASON FOR THAT TIME TO FULFILL ALL HIS WORK.
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God has a time and a reason for that time to fulfill all
His work. God knows just exactly what He's going to do. We don't. We just have to receive It as
He gives It to us. But He knows, and there's
nothing going to go wrong with what He--He's planned to do. It's all has to
come about. There has to be sometimes rugged and hard things to only bring out
the real true nature of the object.
You
know, rain is born in a jagged, ragged,
lightning strowed, thundering skies. And if we didn't have rain, we wouldn't
live. But you see
what it takes to bring rain? Thunder, lightning, flashing, anger; and out of
there comes rain.
A
seed must die, rot, corrupt, smell, and go back
to the dust of the earth in order to bring forth new life.
It
takes the pounding of gold, turned over and over, back and forth, and
pounded until all the dross is taken out of it. Not because it shines, 'cause
iron pyrite, what is known as fool's gold, shines like real gold; but you put
the two together... You set them out to one side, you can hardly tell them
apart; but put them together, you can tell it. And the
beater always has to beat till he--he sees his own image reflecting in the
gold.
*EVERYTHING HAS ITS TIME, ITS SEASON, AND
IT HAS ITS WAY; AND GOD IS BEHIND EVERY MOVE.
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11-6 And God sets a time and has a purpose for everything that He does. There's nothing happens just accidentally to those who love the Lord and are called according to His calling. See, we are predestinated. And everything works just right for that; because He cannot lie, and He said that was so, that everything has its time, its season, and it has its way; and God is behind every move. And sometimes you think that everything's going wrong. It's up to us. Those things are put upon us, trials and wonderings; it's testing to see how we will react on a action.
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Some time ago in--up in Vermont, Brother Fred and I went over on the New
York side, across the Lake Champlain. And we had got over on the New York side,
and I went up in a mountain where that--up on the Hurricane Mountain, where I
used to hunt. And there, I remember when I was lost, and how that God
would--led me back just by the Holy Spirit alone through a storm that... I'd
have died, perished, and so would my wife and Billy down in a little camp miles
away. And I was turned around.
And there was just a little snow we pulled through to get into the camp early in the spring. And I was standing there talking to Brother Fred, and the Holy Spirit said, "Go out to yourself," and I moved out into the bush a little place, and He told me, "There's a trap set for you. Be careful now." But He didn't tell me how or what.
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I come back and told Brother Fred, went to the church that night in the
auditorium and announced it to the people, and the next night it happened. And
then standing there when He told me upon some mockers. He said,
"It's in your hands. Do with them; whatever you say will happen right
now."
There you
are. For somebody irreverent, ungodly, and they were making fun and scoffing at
the meeting, a young man and a young woman. And he was trying to--vulgar love
make with her in the building, and everybody's attention while I was trying to
preach. He'd pull her head back and climb up in her lap, and throw her head
back and try to kiss her, and going on like that in the meeting, drawing the
attention.
And the Holy Spirit said, "Now,
he's--they're in your hands. What will you do with them?" There was a holy
hush. Everybody set deathly quiet. And I thought, "O God, what must I
do?"
Then
I remembered if it happened in the warning of the Holy Spirit two days before.
I said, "I forgive you."
Now, that was what He wanted me to say. See, because after all, I--I've been guilty, maybe not of that, but I--I--guilty. And guilty of the least is of the whole. So I said, "I forgive you." And there's witnesses setting here now was there then. Then the Holy Spirit fell through.
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12-7 Now, you see, I believe that all these things had a meaning. What would you do with the power? How would you... See, the reaction of an action, something that is come as an act, then how do you react to that action? Do you understand what I mean? What would you do? And maybe all of this has worked up to where we're at now. I don't know. I--I just can't say.
THE
WORD HAS ALWAYS BORE A REPROACH.
But there's always been some way... And remember,
that the reproach of--of the Word has... The Word has always bore a reproach. All through
the ages, God's anointed Word has always been reproached, and that's the reason
it's so hard for people who doesn't understand would know how to accept that
reproach.
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13-1 Can you remember the disciples returning back and rejoicing because they figured that they were counted worthy to stand the reproach of His Name? He said, "All that live godly in Christ shall bear a persecution," the reproach of the Word.
*THERE'S NOT ENOUGH DEVILS IN TORMENT BUT
WHAT GOD'S WORD WILL BE MADE MANIFEST.
You always have to stand this reproach in order to give
your testing to see. Every man that comes to Christ must first be child-trained
for the--for the purpose that God has ordained you for. And remember, if you could just keep
quiet... Remember, if He's called you for this, there's nothing
that can keep it from happening. There's not enough
devils in torment but what God's Word will be made manifest. You're
born for a purpose. And nobody can take your place. You might have
impersonators and everything else, but they'll never take your place. That's
right. God's Word will triumph. It cannot fail.
There's where every Christian ought to stand, knowing that--that... And trials will come up and seem every way to you. But remember, God has a purpose, and it all will work right.
God’s Approval
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The
cloudy skies and storms of life are no signs of God's disapproval. Neither are
bright skies and still waters signs of His love and approval. His approval of
any of us is only IN THE BELOVED. His love is elective which He had for us
before the foundation of the world. Does He love us? Ah yes. But how shall we know? We shall
know because He SAID SO, and manifested that He did love us for He brought us
to Himself and gave us of His Spirit, placing us as sons. And how shall I
prove my love to Him? By believing what He said, and by conducting myself with
joy amidst the trials that He in His wisdom allows to come to pass.
Rom 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Rom 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Rom 8:30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
Rom 8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
Rom 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
Rom 8:33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
Rom 8:34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
Rom 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Rom 8:36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Rom 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Rom 8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Rom 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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