24-0722P_ACCEPTING GOD'S PROVIDED WAY AT THE END-TIME

Gen 22:7  And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? 

Gen 22:8  And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together. 

Joh 12:24  Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. 

Joh 12:25  He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. 

Joh 12:26  If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour. 

*DON'T BE AFRAID. DEATH IS JUST A SCARECROW, TRYING TO KEEP YOU AWAY FROM SOMETHING. MY, IT'S SO GLORIOUS!

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41    But notice this. I say this. Don't be afraid. Death is just a scarecrow, trying to keep you away from something. My, it's so glorious! It's beyond anything that you could think of. No wonder the Bible said, "Eye has not seen, ear has not heard, neither has it entered the hearts of men what God has for them in store that love Him." Oh, just to look past the curtain of time! Then, I've tried harder than ever before in life, to try to win people to Christ, since then. You can't afford to miss it. Don't do it. Be sure that you're right with God, and other things will be all right.
 
*BUT REALLY THERE'S ONLY TWO WAYS THAT A MAN CAN GO, THAT'S, THE RIGHT WAY AND THE WRONG WAY.

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  57      You know, there is many ways that--that people take, but really there's only two ways that a man can go, that's, the right way and the wrong way. And all of us here, tonight, we're on one of those roads, the right one or the wrong one. There's no middle ground. Jesus said, "You cannot serve God and mammon," meaning, "the world." We're either right or wrong.

58    And now if we'll just get away from our own way, is the only way we can get in God's way. And God has made a provided way for everything. He has provided the way. And where we get in trouble, is not following that way, and--and injecting into It our own ways. And that makes a perversion. And anything that's perverted is--is not dependable. So, God has a way. And let's just look at some of His ways.
 

*LET'S TAKE SOMETHING IN NATURE… LET'S TAKE, FOR INSTANCE, THE TREE.  

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  59      Let's take something in nature. Because, nature was my first Bible. I know God is a Creator, and He created nature. And He lives in His creation, in nature.

60    Let's take, for instance, the tree. I just pulled up under one, a few moments ago out there, or Billy did, and the limbs on it. And I noticed the leaves falling. Now, we have never been able, and we never will be able, to find a better way for a tree to hide its life through the winter, than God's provided way for it to hide its life.
 

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  61      Now, what if we tried to manufacture some other way than the regular provided way for the tree? What if every August or September, in the land especially where I come from, the North, if we would have to go out to the apple orchard and get some kind of a--of a instrument and place it into the tree, along about August after the apples are ripened, and pull the life out of the tree and take it into a good warm place, and keep it through the winter, the life, sap life out of the tree, and place it in a good warm container and keep it till Spring, and then inject it back into the tree? You know, that would never work. It would never be so. And to try to do it would only kill the tree.

62    But God has a way to take care of that life through the winter. God made a way. Knowing that winter would come on the tree, He made a way for it. I was had the privilege of leading a seventy-five-year-old infidel to Christ, by that, not long ago.
 

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  125      Now, aside for a minute. It's God's provided way. It only operates the way God provides for it. A little voice says, "Get down to the roots," and down it goes. Now, it does that without any intelligence. What ought we to do, by the same God speaking to us? We, but we got a right to refuse or to accept, and, mostly, we refuse. The tree can't refuse. It only knows one routine, that's, obey its master.
 
NEITHER HAVE THEY EVER FOUND A BETTER WAY FOR A CHICKEN TO GET OUT OF A EGGSHELL, THAN TO PECK HIS WAY OUT.

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  134      Neither have they ever found a better way for a chicken to get out of a eggshell, than to peck his way out. They haven't got any better way. Science has never been able to produce anything else. If you cracked the shell, to take him out, it would kill him. He'll die. He must follow God's provided way, in order to live. Amen. That works on human beings, too.

135    He is equipped. Did you ever notice a little chicken when he gets out of the shell? He's got a extra, little beak upon his shell, a little white scratcher. And the little fellow in there, just as life begins to come, he begins to nod his little head. What does that do? That little scratcher scratches the shell, and makes it thin. As he gets a little more life, he begins to hammer with that little thing. And after he's already out of the shell, he don't need it anymore, so it just drops off.
 
 
NEITHER HAVE THEY EVER FOUND A BETTER WAY FOR A CHICKEN TO GET OUT OF A EGGSHELL, THAN TO PECK HIS WAY OUT.

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  134      Neither have they ever found a better way for a chicken to get out of a eggshell, than to peck his way out. They haven't got any better way. Science has never been able to produce anything else. If you cracked the shell, to take him out, it would kill him. He'll die. He must follow God's provided way, in order to live. Amen. That works on human beings, too.

135    He is equipped. Did you ever notice a little chicken when he gets out of the shell? He's got a extra, little beak upon his shell, a little white scratcher. And the little fellow in there, just as life begins to come, he begins to nod his little head. What does that do? That little scratcher scratches the shell, and makes it thin. As he gets a little more life, he begins to hammer with that little thing. And after he's already out of the shell, he don't need it anymore, so it just drops off.
 

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  136      And the thing that does, it's a protection for the end of his bill. If it wasn't so, he'd have a deformed bill, and couldn't pick up his grain. Oh, my! God's provided way of survival! God fixes him up, just the way to get out of there. There's no better way. Anything else would kill him. He must come God's provided way. Now, if you try to manufacture some way or figure out some way, you'll kill it.

137    That's what's the matter with the Christian church today. It's tried to accept some manufactured way, in the stead of beating its way through, to the Kingdom of God. It's tried some other way, and it won't work. You kill your patient. You kill your--your--your baby, God's baby, by trying to manufacture some way. "Oh, there's no need of this here boo-hoo and crying. There's no need of all this, all this." Oh, yes, there is. "There's no need of this dying."
 

*UNLESS THERE'S DEATH, THERE CANNOT BE BIRTH. 

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  138      Unless there's death, there cannot be birth. Birth only comes by the substance of death. "Lest a corn of wheat falls in the ground and dies, it abides alone." It must rot, and get into corruption, and then from that corruption springs forth life. No other way it will work. It must first corrupt, and be corrupted. And that's the way we must be; die to ourselves and be born anew of the Holy Spirit.

139    No, they haven't found any better way for a chicken to get out of a shell, than to peck his way through. That's God's provided way for him, and he's equipped to do it. God wouldn't provide a way without providing a instrument for it. So He provided the way, and provided the instrument for the chicken to free hisself. Amen.
 
*HE COUNTS SINCERITY IN HIS PROVIDED WAY.

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  140      Now, neither have they ever found any better idea for ducks and geese to come south, from the north, than to swarm and then fly their way down. No other way. You see, before they fly down south, or fly from the south back north, they swarm, first. Before they leave their grounds or homes, to a new home, they swarm. Bees does the same thing. They swarm. That's a nature. What is it? They have a revival. They all swarm and get together. You never heard such a noise in your life.

141    And before we can ever leave this habitation, to a new one, we got to swarm in a revival.

142    Oh, you get around a bunch of ducks and geese, you never heard so much jabber in all your life. What are they having? A revival. They're fixing to take to the air. Amen.

143    That's what we need today, is a swarming revival. No other way; not membership. God doesn't count majorities. He counts sincerity in His provided way.
 

Psa 145:15  The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season. 

Psa 145:16  Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing. 

Psa 145:17  The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works. 

Psa 145:18  The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth. 

Psa 145:19  He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them. 

Psa 145:20  The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy. 

Psa 145:21  My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD: and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.