23-0901A_GOD MAKING HIS PROMISE PT-2(Truly Love & Believe Him with All your Heart)

Joh 1:29  The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. 

Joh 1:30  This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me. 

Joh 1:31  And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water. 

Joh 1:32  And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. 

Joh 1:33  And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. 

Jer 31:3  The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. 
Jer 31:4  Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.

Job 32:8  But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding. 

Php 4:13  I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. 

Php 4:14  Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction. 

Jos 22:5  But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul. 

Jos 22:6  So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away: and they went unto their tents. 
Joh 16:27  For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. 

1Jn 3:1  Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. 

1Jn 3:2  Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 

*AND AS LONG AS YOU HAVE THE PROMISE OF GOD THAT SAYS IT, REGARDLESS OF WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES LOOK LIKE, BELIEVE IT ANYHOW FOR GOD SAID SO.

JEHOVAH.JIREH_  BROOKLYN.NY  SUNDAY_  56-1209E

  E-28    Now, we find Abraham last night, believing God and calling those things which were not as though they were, because God said so. And as long as you have the promise of God that says it, regardless of what circumstances look like, believe it anyhow for God said so. And if you are the children of Abraham, not the children of the church now, the children of the denomination, but the children of Abraham, you believe God's promises, every one of them, regardless of what someone else would say about it. You believe His promises are true.
 
*BUT GOD HAS ALWAYS THROUGH ALL TIMES, NOT BY--NOT BY LAWS OR ACTIONS, BUT ALWAYS THROUGH GRACE HAS HAD A WAY FOR HEALING FOR HIS PEOPLE.

JEHOVAH.JIREH_  BROOKLYN.NY  SUNDAY_  56-1209E

  E-31    And he went and killed the animals, and cut them in two, laid piece to piece. But the turtledoves, he did not separate or the pigeons. If we just had time to go into that, the turtledove is represents Divine healing. The atonement changed. The--the time changed the law from grace. But God has always through all times, not by--not by laws or actions, but always through grace has had a way for healing for His people. The brass serpent, the pool at the Bethesda, all the way He's always had a healing atonement for His people.
 

*BUT WITHOUT THE SHEPHERD, YOU'RE LOST AND YOU'RE ONLY FIGHTING THE WIND.

GOD.MAKING.HIS.PROMISE_  BROOKLYN.NY  SUNDAY_  56-1209A

  E-23    And that's just exactly what the human race is. We are absolutely, totally lost and can--we're not sufficient in ourselves. We've got to have the Shepherd to lead us and to guide us. We are lost without it.
We cannot save ourselves. No matter how good your program may be. No matter what kind of a motive you have towards that program, what--what is your alternatives, or why--how great your church is, that's all fine, nothing against it; but without the Shepherd, you're lost and you're only fighting the wind. True. You must have the Shepherd.
And the church is wonderful, every denomination. But without the Shepherd of the flock, you're just building your church in vain. You're rejecting the very Cornerstone.
 
AS HE LOOKED UP TO GOD, IT WAS RECKONED UNTO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS, BECAUSE THAT HE KNEW THIS INNOCENT LAMB WAS TAKING HIS GUILTY PLACE.

GOD.MAKING.HIS.PROMISE_  BROOKLYN.NY  SUNDAY_  56-1209A

  E-27    Now, men under the slaying of the lamb could never be saved. He was only expressing his faith looking for the time to come when the Lamb itself would come.
Now, the old worshiper, he took the lamb, and he went when he done sin, he went to the priest and the lamb was slain. And he laid his hands upon the lamb as it was dying, and the little fellow kicking and bleating, and the blood spurting over his hand, and he felt the life going out of the lamb. As he looked up to God, it was reckoned unto him for righteousness, because that he knew this innocent lamb was taking his guilty place. There must be...
The antidote is the innocent for the guilty. That's the only way. Not good works could never save you. It can never. So the man realizing that the lamb took his place in death... Now, that the worshiper went back out again with the same desire in his heart to sin that he had when he come in the first time. Why? It didn't... The life--the blood has life.
 
*THE CHURCH NEEDS TO BE CLEANED OUT AND GET PEOPLE BACK TO GOD AGAIN WHERE THEY COME IN CONTACT WITH THE MATE, CHRIST JESUS.

GOD.MAKING.HIS.PROMISE_  BROOKLYN.NY  SUNDAY_  56-1209A

  E-30    That's what's the matter with our so-called Christian churches. We've got a bunch of people, and patted them on the back, and put their name on the book, and we've hugged them, and kissed them, and babied them around like this and patted them around. It's a nest full of rotten eggs. The church needs to be cleaned out and get people back to God again where they come in contact with the Mate, Christ Jesus.
No matter how good he is, or how much he pays in the collection, or whatever it is, if he hasn't been in contact with Christ and been born again, it's a rotten egg in the church. I don't mean that for a vile expression. I only mean it to point out to you a truth. That's right.
 

*BEAUTIFUL CHRIST THAT BACKS UP EVERY WORD THAT HE SAID. 

GOD.MAKING.HIS.PROMISE_  BROOKLYN.NY  SUNDAY_  56-1209A

  E-33    All right. You might separate from your friends here for awhile, but you're in the Presence of God. See? Separation from God is eternal death, so you're gone forever. But you can no more die. "He that heareth My words and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath Everlasting Life and shall not come into the judgment, but is passed from death unto Life."
Oh, what a beautiful Bible that we have, and not only a beautiful Bible, but a beautiful Christ that backs up every word that He said. That's right.
 
* GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD WHEN THEY WERE UNLOVABLE

GOD.MAKING.HIS.PROMISE_  BROOKLYN.NY  SUNDAY_  56-1209A

  E-34    Now, as the lamb was presented and the dove presented... Now, the dove is the meekest of all the birds that fly in the heaven. There's nothing like the dove. The dove is a lover. The dove coos in the evening. How I've listened to the old dove a many time. There's nothing more beautiful than to hear the dove in the evening cooing, the turtledove.
I remember when I lost my wife, when I was just a young Baptist preacher. I went out to the grave every evening, and I'd set down out there as the sun went down. And seemed like this big, old dove must have knew that I was sad. He would come there and set up in the bush. And as the sun was setting and the wind blowing through the trees, he would coo to me. Nothing more consoling, hardly, to hear a dove in the evening, cooing it's sweet message. It's a lover.
God is a lover. God is love. God so loved the world when they were unlovable, that He gave His Son to make them lovable. And God... Here it is. God wants to come down and make love to you. He's seeking, thirsting, hungering, trying to get to some of your starchy hearts to make love to you, as a love affair: not a law, but a love. It's all in love. God so loved.
 
IF YOU'LL JUST GET GOD IN THE HEART, YOU CAN SEE HIM EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK.
Now, the dove... I've studied doves, studied animals, was game warden for years and still live in the woods when I can. And now, studying of animals, you can find God. If you'll just get God in the heart, you can see Him everywhere you look. He's just everywhere. He's omnipresent, everywhere.
 
 
***IT'S GOD IN YOU, CHANGING YOUR NATURE AND DESIRE.

GOD.MAKING.HIS.PROMISE_  BROOKLYN.NY  SUNDAY_  56-1209A

  E-37    Now, that's the difference... A--sometime you take an old crow-natured man or woman, they'll go out into the roadhouses, and pool rooms, and all kinds of places of devices, and hoop and holler and carry on, and come back to church, and act the very same way. Right.
But a real, borned again Christian cannot tolerate the things of the world. If you love the world or the things of the world... Now, I mean not by a law, saying, "I know I shouldn't do that." That isn't it. It's God in you, changing your nature and desire. Certainly. There's the difference.
*THEN WHEN YOU TRULY LOVE GOD AND BELIEVE HIM WITH ALL YOUR HEART, THAT'S--THAT'S IT.

GOD.MAKING.HIS.PROMISE_  BROOKLYN.NY  SUNDAY_  56-1209A

  E-38    Not while you're trying to impersonate that. If you are, you're still a crow. That's right. You've got to get your nature changed to make your desires change. Then when you truly love God and believe Him with all your heart, that's--that's it. When you do anything wrong, you feel the tears of repentance rolling down your cheeks. You can't stand it. You have to go back. You lay on your face before Father and say, "God, You know I didn't mean to do that." And you'll stay right there until it's settled with God forever. That's right.

Eph 6:23  Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 

Eph 6:24  Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen. To the Ephesians written from Rome, by Tychicus.