24-0816A_THE MESSAGE OF GRACE PT-6 (THE GRACE OF GOD HOLDS US)
Zec 4:1 And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep,
Zec 4:2 And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof:
Zec 4:3 And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.
Zec 4:4 So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord?
Zec 4:5 Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.
Zec 4:6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.
Zec 4:7 Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.
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* YOU CAN'T SEEK GOD WITHOUT GOD SEEKING
YOU FIRST AND CALLING YOU. SO GOD IS SEEKING. "GOD HAS SET IN THE
CHURCH..."
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24 Now, "God set in the Church, some teachers, apostles, prophets,
gifts of healing," and, oh, different kinds of gifts. He put that in the
Church for the perfecting of the Church, getting the Church together.
And now, days has passed since
the first
round of the apostles. They had all the nine gifts working in the Church. The
second round,
they begin
to cool off. The third round was about all gone.
Then went out into the fifteen hundred years of dark ages. Then come the
reformation.
After the reformation come
sanctification, after justification come John Wesley, preaching
sanctification. In there come Calvin, Knox, and all of
those who came down into the Pentecostal, Nazarene, that age.
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27 And now we're moving right on into another great age, coming for
the rapture of the Church. And in this, we're living in the time
of the restoration of the gifts. It stumbled many of the big fine churches; it
sent Nazarene backwards; it made fanatics out of a lot of Pentecost. But just
the same, God's moving right on, bringing in the rapturing faith
for His Church. That's right. So tonight I represent
that faith, the faith that was once delivered to the saints, in the way of a
Divine gift.
Which, to my opinion, "Gifts
and callings..." Not my opinion; but the Bible says that gifts and callings are without
repentance. There's nothing you can do about it. You
can't make yourself with blue eyes when you got brown. You're just what you
are, by the grace of God.
You can't even come to God without God calling you first. You can't seek God without God seeking you first and calling you. "No man can come to me, except My Father draws him." So God is seeking. "God has set in the Church..."
*HIS
GRACE DID IT, HIS GRACE BECAUSE OF HIS PROMISE, HIS PROMISE THEN, THE GRACE
THAT WENT WITH HIS PROMISE.
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90 ...Deuteronomy 7:7. God gave
Abraham His promise, or gave not Abraham, pardon me, give
Israel, and told them, "If you will not associate with idolatry, if you'll
not do these things, if you'll stay away from all these pagan ceremonies, if
you'll do all these things, then I'll bring you to a good land. I'll take care of you. I'll feed you; I'll lead you. I'll do
these things if you'll do such-and-such, if you'll love Me, if you'll keep My
commandments, My statutes, My ordinances. I'll do all these things if you'll
just do something, and keep My commandments and love Me."
93 …But they were... never did come to the full promise, not that generation. No, the one that promise was made to perished in the wilderness. But God fed them; God took care of them; God loved them; He moved around. Why? His grace did it, His grace because of His promise, His promise then, the grace that went with His promise. But they never did come to the full value of the promised land.
*THE GRACE OF GOD HOLDS US. BUT HE WANTS
TO GET A CHURCH THAT'LL OBEY HIM, A PEOPLE THAT'LL TAKE HIS WORD AND SAY IT'S
THE TRUTH…
And neither does this church come to its full value. The grace of God holds us. But He wants to get a church
that'll obey Him, a people that'll take His Word and say It's the Truth, regardless
of your organization. He wants a people that'll not say, "Well, I'm just
as good as you are. I'm Presbyterian; I'm Methodist; I'm Catholic; I'm as good
as you are." That's not grace; that shows there's something wrong.
95 But a person, regardless, that'll read God's Word and see that you've got to be borned again and filled with the Holy Ghost, they'll believe that; they'll take it by the Word. They'll take the Word exactly what It says.
*IT TAKEN THE GRACE OF JEHOVAH TO KEEP HIS FAMILY TOGETHER.
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91 Just like a husband taking a
wife, and saying, "If you'll be a good woman, if you'll take care of the
house, if you'll be true to me, if you'll keep my clothes clean; if we have
children, if you'll be a mother to them; if you'll do things, I'll work till my
hands bleed to make you a living, if you'll do it." But then, think, what
if that woman turns wrong, lives lazy, won't work, won't do nothing? Then it takes grace to keep that family together.
O God. It taken the grace of Jehovah to keep His family together. And that's the only way we're Jehovah's family today, is because of the grace of Jesus Christ; we'd all be gone. But it's grace, oh, grace.
*GOD'S GRACE HAS SHOWED IT TO YOU, THEN
WALK IN IT.
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97 We've been through the church ages and see where they had to do that. So you see, God wants somebody that'll obey Him. If it's not in the Scriptures, then it's not of man--it's a man-made doctrine and not a Bible doctrine. See? So regardless of what the church is, how wrong you've been, what difference does that make? It's how right you can be now. God's grace has showed it to you, then walk in it. God's grace...
*IF YOU'LL OVERCOME SOMETHING BY THE
GRACE OF GOD, IT'LL BE ONE OF THE SWEETEST THINGS THAT YOU EVER TASTED IN YOUR
LIFE
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E-22 Oh, I tell you: this is a mar--most marvelous thing that I've ever seen in my life is the greatest hours of my life is, when I get up against a wall that I can't get over it, under it, or around it. That's right. And then I trust God and He opens the way, and I go through the thing. God takes you through it. That's... Then when you come out on the other side, it's like Samson when he killed the lion. When he got out on the other side... When he killed the lion, and he got the sweetest honey he ever eat out of that old carcass of that lion. And sometimes if you'll overcome something by the grace of God, it'll be one of the sweetest things that you ever tasted in your life (Isn't that right?), if you know spiritually what I'm speaking of.
*THE LOVE OF GOD, SEALED IN YOUR HEART, PRESSED IN UNTIL ALL THE WORLD'S PRESSED OUT AND YOU SEE NOTHING BUT THE LORD, TO LOVE HIM.
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E-22
After all, I'd rather have the love of God sealed in my heart
than all the gifts there is in the Bible. That's right.
I thought of that here a few
nights ago. My little girl called me, and I told her... She wanted me to come
home to her. She loves me, oh, my. And so I--I... She's... I told her I sent
her a little doll. But she didn't want the doll. She said, "I want you, daddy,
not your doll." See, she wants me.
Well, that's the way I think about Jesus. I love His gifts and things to help His people, but I want Jesus. The love of God, sealed in your heart, pressed in until all the world's pressed out and you see nothing but the Lord, to love Him. And as you love one another, you love the Lord. If you don't love one another, you can't love the Lord. He said so. That's right. And God can't move into you.
*THAT'S
THE WAY YOU KNOW THIS LOVE BOOK OF GOD
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E-66 She writes me a letter. "Dear Billy,
I'm setting here tonight. I just got the children to bed. I've washed today.
I've done so-and-so. The phone's rung over three hundred times. People are
asking where you're at. I'm thinking much of you." That's what she's
writing. But you know, I can read right between the lines and know
what she means, 'cause I love her.
That's the way you know this love Book of God. Reason it's so complicated to people, you're not in love with Christ. You say it--it contradicts itself and all this. You're just not in love with the Author; that's all. It's a love Letter.
*I BELIEVE IT'S ONLY THROUGH THE GRACE OF
GOD THAT HE'S CALLED IN THE HOLY GHOST. IT'S THE FREE GIFT OF GOD GIVEN TO US
BY GOD'S GRACE.
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E-7 I've never been ashamed and God help me, to always be man enough, to
stand up and speak my convictions. For if I'm not, I'd be a traitor to Christ.
I believe in the old fashion baptizing of the Holy Ghost. I believe that a
man's got to be born again, or he's still a sinner. I believe it's only
through the grace of God that he's called in the Holy Ghost. We do not receive
the Holy Ghost by faith believing. It's the free gift of God given to us by
God's grace. That's where I different with my own church. The church
that I come from, the Baptist church. They said, "You said you receive the
Holy Ghost when you believe."
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