24-0101P_THE ABSOLUTE IN LIFE
Act 26:15 And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.
Act 26:16 But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee;
Act 26:17 Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,
Act 26:18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
Act 26:19 Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:
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*THE WORD "ABSOLUTE."
IT'S--IT'S PERFECT IN ITSELF.
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10-2 …..I looked up in the
dictionary--Webster's. According to Webster's, it's "perfect
in itself; unlimited in its power; primarily, an ultimate." And an
ultimate is the "amen"; that's all. A "absolute," it
is--it's "the unlimited in power," the word
"absolute." It's--it's perfect in itself. That's all of it;
that settles it. And I thought, "That's a glorious thing; that's a
wonderful word."
And now, a "word" is "a thought expressed." First, it must be a thought, and then it becomes a word; because you do not speak your words without thought.
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10-5 When we speak in tongues, we have no thought; it's God taking the thoughts; it's God's thought using our lips. We don't think or know what you're saying when you're speaking in tongues, if it's inspired speaking. When you interpret, you do not know what you're saying; you just say it; that's all. See? That's God. And prophesying, you're not using your own thoughts; it's God, 'cause you say things that you ordinarily wouldn't think about saying. See?
BUT THE WORD "ABSOLUTE" IS AN ULTIMATE; AND THEREFORE, I THINK
THAT EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE AN ULTIMATE.
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11-1 But the word "absolute" is an ultimate; and therefore, I think that everybody should have an ultimate. And every great achievement that's ever been achieved, there has been an absolute behind it. No matter what it was, it's had an absolute behind it. And every person in order to achieve something has to first have the absolute. And that's the final wind back through this, that, back through the other, till you come to that absolute, or the "amen," or the ultimate of what you're... You got something you have to tie to, in other words. It's the final tying post to every achievement. It's somewhere; it might wind through many different things till it gets to that tie post; but there is the "amen" to all of it. There must be such a thing. You cannot go on through life without having one.
*WHEN YOU GOT MARRIED, THERE HAD TO WIND BACK THROUGH YOUR MIND
SOMETHING, TILL YOU HIT THAT TIE POST… LOVE FOR YOUR WIFE OR YOUR HUSBAND.
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11-2 You... When you got married, there had to wind back through your mind something, till you hit that tie post. And it should have been love for your wife or your husband. Well, maybe she isn't as pretty as John's wife; or she, well... She's not the--this, that, but there's something about her that you--it strikes you. You--you--you say, "She might not be as pretty as the other," or, "he might not be as handsome as the other"; but there has to be a absolute there that that person's different. And there's where you hold on to. And if that isn't there, you better not get married: that tie post, that absolute.
LOOK AT JOB. NOW, HE
HAD AN ABSOLUTE.
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11-3 …..Look at Job. Now, he had an absolute. Everything went wrong for that man--a just man. Now, we would be daresn't to say that he wasn't just, because God said he was. There was no one on earth like Job. He was perfect in the sight of God; and he knew it, because he had an ultimate; he had an absolute.
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12-1 When everything seemed
to be contrary, sickness broke out, his friends might've said, "Now, there
you are, Job, that proves that you are sinning; you're wrong." And then, the bishops come down.
They called them Job's comforters. And instead of
comforting him, they seen nothing but sin in his life; because God had dealt
with him the way He had.
And his children was killed; his--his property was burned; his--his... Everything went wrong. And even his own life in jeopardy, setting on a ash heap, broke out from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet with boils. And even his lovely, sweet companion, the mother of those children, said, "You should curse God and die the death." But in the face of all that Job had an absolute.
…IF YOU MAKE HIS WORD YOUR ABSOLUTE, YOU CAN... ANY DIVINE PROMISE IN
THE BIBLE, YOU CAN TIE YOUR SOUL TO IT.
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12-3 Oh, in
time of sickness if we could only tie ourself to that absolute. Job
knowed that he had done Jehovah's bidding, and he had faith in what he'd done,
because Jehovah required it. If we can just do that... Jehovah required a burnt
offering for his sin. And Job, not only for himself, but for his children, had
made a burnt offering, and that's all God required.
Oh, you might say, "I wish that's all He required
today."
It's less than that: just faith in His Word. And you--if you make His Word your Absolute, you can... Any Divine promise in the Bible, you can tie your soul to it. No matter how much the waves whip you around, you're still tied: your Absolute.
*HE STILL HELD ON; HE HAD SOMETHING THAT
HE COULD DRIVE DOWN.
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12-6 And he held on to It. And when
his comforters said, "You've sinned," he knowed he had not. He was
just, because he'd done Jehovah's bidding. And when he's... every... The
man come in and said, "Your children's dead"; another one come in and
said, "Your camels are all burned up, and there come fire down from
heaven."
Look what an argument his discomforters had, "You
see? The fire came from heaven. Now, Job, that proves..."
"It proves nothing."
"Now, He wouldn't have struck your children, Job;
you're a just man."
But Job said, "I know that I've done what's right." He still held on; he had something that he could drive down. That's it. He had accepted it; he'd had done exactly what God told him to do; and he was absolutely sure. All right.
*HE'D TIGHTENED UP TO HIS ABSOLUTE; HE'D
COME IN CONTACT.
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13-1 Then when he come to the spot when that absolute held, then finally he begin to feel the string tighten up that'd been running loose, bouncing around. But it begin to tighten up, and the Spirit come on him; and he stood up, being a prophet, and he said, "I know my Redeemer liveth." Amen. See? He'd tightened up to his absolute; he'd come in contact. He'd knowed that he'd done what was right, and someday he had to pull to It. "I know my Redeemer liveth, and at the last days He stands upon this earth. Though after the skin worms destroys this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God." He knew then; then his absolute anchored.
*AND ANY CHRIST-CENTERED LIFE, THAT'S
YOUR ABSOLUTE.
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15-3 How we could go through the
Scriptures: Daniel, his absolute; Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, their
absolute; David, his absolute. All absolute...
Paul had one too, the one we are reading about. He had a Christ-centered call, and that was his absolute. That's the reason he wasn't afraid of what Agrippa would say. Standing there... And Agrippa was a Jew, as we know. And so when--when he's standing before these kings and things, God had already told him he'd stand there. So he had an absolute. So he told exactly the heavenly vision. He said, "I'm not a--I wasn't dishonorable to it. I was--did not misjudge it; I didn't misbehave myself." But he held to, and was not disobedient; he carried it out to the minute, for it was an absolute. And any Christ-centered life, that's your absolute.
*GOD'S PROMISES ARE ALWAYS ON CONDITION.
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13-2 Abraham, an absolute, coming
down from Babylon, from the tower and the--out into the Shinar, and out in
there where he was sojourning with his father, and perhaps was a farmer. But
one day, way back in the jungles somewhere maybe picking berries, or--or going
to kill a beast for his meat, and somewhere back in there, God spoke to him
when he was seventy-five years old.
And he was--he and his wife, Sarah, her being sixty-five
was childish--childless. They didn't have any children. Then God told him,
"You're going to have a child by Sarah. But in
order to do this, you've got to separate yourself."
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13-4 God's promises are always on condition. You must absolutely... No matter how fundamental you are with the promise, it's under conditions always. How we could stop here and wave through that Scripture back and forth for hours (See?), that the condition is what means something. You can be just as fundamental as you want to, but it's under conditions by the promise, predestination, and so forth.
…HIS ABSOLUTE HELD, BECAUSE HE KNOWED HE HAD TALKED TO GOD.
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13-5 Notice.
Now Abraham, he believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness. Now, what a horrible
thing it would be to meet a civilized world, a man seventy-five years old with
a woman sixty-five, and had lived together since they were young couples,
'cause she was his half sister. And now, going to have a baby by
her. But
he had an Absolute. There was nothing going to move him.
And when the first month, it didn't happen, his Absolute held, because he knowed he had talked to God. The second month, second year, ten year; and at twenty-five years later, when he was a hundred and Sarah was ninety, his Absolute still held.
*OBEDIENCE, PROMISE UNDER CONDITIONS,
ALWAYS GOES WITH GOD AND HIS WORD.
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14-1 And the Bible said, when his obituary was written, he said, "Abraham staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong, giving praise to God." Why? Did you ever think why? He was absolute, positive, and the only thing he had to do was separate himself from his people. And God never did bless him until he did it. He took his daddy; the daddy died. He took Lot; and when... After Lot separated from Abraham, then God come to him, said, "Now, walk through the land." Obedience, promise under conditions, always goes with God and His Word.
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