25-0922P_OUR GOD WHO IS RICH IN MERCY
*THERE IS NO OTHER, THERE IS NO OTHER THING
THAT COULD HAPPEN TO ANY PERSON, SO GREAT, AS TO CHANGE HIM FROM DEATH TO LIFE.
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…..Paul,
who--who, how he made mention of this, how, "You has He quickened, who
were once dead. You hath He quickened, who were once dead, dead in sin and
trespasses; walking after the things of the world, the desire of the flesh, and
fulfilling the desire of the mind. Has..."
37 What caused this change, you see? And what caused it,
"from one time being dead," to quicken? Quicken
means "made alive." There was a change, from death unto Life. There is no other, there is no other thing that could
happen to any person, so great, as to change him from death to Life. A
man, if he was dying, physically, and could be healed physically, that would be
a great thing, but nothing so great as when he is
spiritually dead and God has quickened him to Life.
*IF HE WAS JUST RICH IN MONEY, IF HE WAS JUST
RICH IN MATERIALS, WHICH HE IS, BUT YET THE GREATEST THING IS BEING RICH IN
MERCY.
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"You once,
in times past, dead." You were dead. Even many here tonight, one time, can
look back and know that you were dead. But now why aren't you dead tonight, as
you were then? You deserve to be that way, because you was a sinner, "but
God Who is rich in mercy." That's the--that's
the thing, "God Who was rich." All these things that we were,
"but God"! That made the change right there, "God
Who is rich in mercy"!
39 Oh, I'm so glad for that, that He being rich in mercy. If He was just rich in money, if He was just rich in
materials, which He is, but yet the greatest thing is being rich in mercy.
Oh, what a great word that is, how that we were once dead.
*…IT SEEMED LIKE THERE WAS SOMETHING IN YOU
THAT CRIED OUT. THERE WAS GOD SOMEWHERE, YET YOU WERE A SINNER.
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Many of you
can--can fellowship with me on this thought. When you was a little boy, or a
little girl, you would walk around and there would be certain things
that would just, where it wouldn't bother the other kids, it seemed like there
was something in you that cried out. There was God somewhere, yet you were a
sinner. You remember that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]
Certainly. Now what was that? That was that little
form of Life in you then.
48 And then after a while, you heard the Gospel. Maybe you
went to church, you picked out this and that, and went from denomination to
denomination. But one day, you being part of God, you had to be part of the
Word. And when you heard the Word, you know where you come from, you knowed
what was the Truth. You were always, the seed was in you always. The Word seen the Word that was in you, that was before
the foundation of the world, saw the Word and you come to It.
*THERE IS SOMETHING IN HIM, THAT, WHEN HE
MEETS GOD FACE TO FACE, HE COMES TO HIMSELF. THAT SEED IS IN HIM, AND IT'S
QUICKENED.
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53 That's the same thing the believer is. There is
something in him, that, when he meets God face to face, he comes to himself.
That seed is in him, and it's quickened. My, that's right, and he flies away from the things of
the world. They become dead to him. My, I remember, we all had our life, in the
past, in those things of the world. But once we got
a hold of that real Thing, something that quickened us, a little seed that come
to Life, then all the things of the world rotted right there. We had no more
desire of it.
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