24-0108P_THE ABSOLUTE IN LIFE PT-2
Act 26:15 And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.
Act 23:11 And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good cheer, Paul: for as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome.
Isa 54:7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.
Isa 54:8 In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.
Isa 54:9 For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
Isa 54:10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.
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*THEN THE FIRST LITTLE DEFECT COME ALONG, THEN MOSES WAS SCARED TO
DEATH. WHY? HE HAD NO ABSOLUTE…
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14-2 Now, look at... Let's take Moses. Moses, the--the runaway servant-prophet that God had raised him up and educated him in Pharaoh's palace, and--and Moses went out with his theological training and was... The first man, he slew. Then the first little defect come along, then Moses was scared to death. Why? He had no absolute; he only had his--his mother's testimony of his birth.ABSOLUTE_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-18 SUNDAY_ 62-1230M
14-4 Now, Moses knowed that was the time, and he knowed that he was chosen for it; but he didn't have an absolute. See? And one day on the back side of the desert, when he'd lost the vision, God appeared to him in a burning bush and said, "Moses, I have seen the afflictions of My people; I've heard their groans and crying of those taskmasters punishing them; and I have remembered My promise. I've come down to deliver them; now, go down to Egypt." Oh, my.He said, "What's in your hand?"
He said, "A stick."
He said, "Throw it down." It turned to a serpent. Said, "Pick it up by the tail." It turned back again to a stick. He was giving him the assurance, a vindication. When God gives an absolute, He gives a vindication to that absolute always.
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14-7 Then Moses, when he was down there, and he threw down his stick before the magicians and Pharaoh, and the magicians come and threw down their stick too, Moses never run and said, "Oh well, I was wrong, I... Was just a cheap magician trick and maybe I was wrong." But he knowed; he was positive that he met God; and he stood still. Let's say he'd done exactly what God told him to do; so had Job done exactly what God told him to do; Moses had followed His commandments. Then stand still and watch the glory of God.ABSOLUTE_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-18 SUNDAY_ 62-1230M
15-2 And how the enemy in every way that he can will try to get you away from that absolute. Right as they started out of Egypt, they got cornered right in the neck of the--of the Red Sea: mountains on either side. Come up through a valley and there's the Red Sea. No way to escape over the hills, no way to escape this way, and Pharaoh's army coming this way. What a place to stand. See how the devil gets you in a place where you don't know what to do? But remember, if you're tied to that absolute, that's got it. Moses knowed that God promised him that "You'll worship on this mountain when you bring them out. And I'll come down by your hand to deliver them and place them over in that other land." He stayed right with it. And God sent a east wind and blowed out the waters out of the bottom of the sea, and they walked across on dry land: an absolute.ABSOLUTE_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-18 SUNDAY_ 62-1230M
15-3 How we could go through the Scriptures: Daniel, his absolute; Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, their absolute; David, his absolute. All absolute...ABSOLUTE_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-18 SUNDAY_ 62-1230M
16-1 Now, since meeting Him face to face on the road to Damascus, that was--meant so much to Paul. Now remember, he was a scholar beforehand; he was a mighty man in the Scriptures, but he didn't have any tie post but the Sanhedrin that would back him up, and a--and a diploma from a great teacher. He was a great man in his field, but he was waving. Only thing he had, his absolute would only be as strong as his organization was; that's all the stronger it could be. And he was working faithful to that, and was taking Christians, and binding them, and making havoc of them, and even stoned Stephen.ABSOLUTE_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-18 SUNDAY_ 62-1230M
16-2 I think later in his life, the reason he went to Jerusalem, when the prophet told him, "Don't go up there, Paul, for chains and prison waits for you."...ABSOLUTE_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-18 SUNDAY_ 62-1230M
16-5 No one else saw the Light, just Saul. It was so promised--so real to him, until It blinded his eyes; he couldn't see, totally blind with that Pillar of Fire blaze him right in the face. And he heard a Voice saying, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?"He said, "I'm Jesus; and it's hard for you to kick against these pricks. Rise now, and go into Damascus; and there one will be sent to you."
Then when he raised up from there... And there was one, a prophet, down in the city who saw in a vision, while he was praying, and he came. Ananias came and come in to Saul, laid his hands upon him, and he was healed by Divine healing. He rose then, was baptized, washing away his sins, calling upon the Name of the Lord; and then he had a absolute. He was never the same after that. He went straight from church to church, from place to place, trying to build up that which he had tried to tear down.
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17-1 How the nation... How the Christian world this morning needs that type of absolute. Those who treat creeds and traditions has tried to--with doctrine of men to disqualify God's Word to being the same yesterday, today, and forever. They need an absolute, an experience of meeting on a Damascus road, the living God Who can heal the sick, and raise the dead, and cast out devils: a genuine absolute.18-7 When a mother can take her little fat, black baby about that long, and throw it into the mouth of a crocodile for the love of her god, I wonder how sincere Christianity is. When a man can afflict himself in such a way, would put in a thousand hooks through his flesh, like that, hanging with balls of water, holding him down like this, and walk through a streak of fire, from here to the end of that tabernacle, back and forth, and it white hot, fanned like that, for the sacrifice of his god, an idol there with ruby eyes in it and so forth, I wonder where Christianity is. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. So don't think sincerity; sincerity is not it. Sincerity's all right if it's placed on the right thing.
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19-1 Like a doctor giving medicine, he might give you arsenic, sincerely; and he might give you sulfuric acid, sincerely; you might have your prescription filled wrong, and you might take it in sincerity, but that don't save your life. See? No, sir. You've got to know what you're doing. And anything contrary to God's Word, I don't care what it is, and how long it's been in existence, it's still wrong.ABSOLUTE_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-18 SUNDAY_ 62-1230M
23-4 Then when we know that our actions is exactly with the Word, we know our teaching is perfect with the Word, adding nothing or taking nothing, just the Word; and we see the same results that others who anchored to the same Word living up in our life, then your anchor holds. The Life of Christ being reproduced in almost an incarnate way through you as it was in Christ, because it was God in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. And you see God in yourself holding that same keel on the Word, just exactly the way Jesus did, and you see His Life...ABSOLUTE_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-18 SUNDAY_ 62-1230M
23-6 It's your North Star when you're lost at sea. You know, we got a lot of stars, but there's only one true star, and it don't move; that's the North Star, 'cause it sets in the center of the earth. No matter whether you're on the backside, upside, or wherever you're at, that North Star is just the same. It's your North Star.ABSOLUTE_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-18 SUNDAY_ 62-1230M
24-2 Oh, my. Notice, your absolute. Oh, I'm going to say something; I just feel it coming on. Notice. I feel very religious at this time, because this is the assurance. Notice. Your compass can only point to the North Star. That's the only place it can point. If it's a true compass it'll strike the North Star every time. Is that right? Then if you have the Holy Spirit, It can only point to the Word. It'll never point to a denomination; It'll never point to a creed; It'll never point away somewhere; It'll point straight to the Word. I feel like shouting.And Jesus said, "He'll do just exactly the things that I say. He'll reveal to you things that is to come--show you ahead of time, before it gets here." See? "He'll take the things that are Mine and will show them to you. And then He'll show you things that is to come." John 15.
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24-5 We see that He shows the things; and He takes the things that are God's and will show them to you; and He will reveal to you the things that Jesus said. In other words, He'll make plain the thing. (Place that way over in the corner tonight, 'cause that's what we're going to use in a little while.) Making sure, making that positive (See?) then you know if you--your North Star, which is the Word to any Christian... Anything contrary to the Word...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.
2Ti 3:8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
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,
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