<TITLE>05. Par 6-6</TITLE>L-6 Now, in Jeremiah I want to read a--a portion of the Word. I want to read from the 1st chapter, and the 4th and 5th verse of Jeremiah. And then from there, I will quote two or three Scriptures, and then try to get off the platform within an hour, if I possible can, so you have time to go home and get back.
Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, (Jeremiah, the prophet speaking.)
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee... All this... Before I formed thee, I knew thee; and before thou comest forth from the womb I sanctified thee, and ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Then said I, Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.
Now, the reason I read this... Now, what I want to... Now, not... I'm not preaching. I just want to explain something, and I want all of you to try to give me your undivided attention if you can.
And now remember, now especially to these ministers over here. I may be way out of line on these things; if I am, I am ignorantly out of line. See? I--I do not know any different. And the only thing that I know of by the Scriptures come to me directly by revelation. See? So that's the way, that I... only way I know it. And if it does not just tie in with the way that you believe, I will ask you this as my brothers, my sister, not to fall out with me, but to bear with me, for I will be the weak one then. And--and I... And pray for me that God will lead me into the Light, what is truth (See?), if I be wrong on my Scripture, explained. For as I said here tonight, I don't know too much about the Word, the Book; I just know the Author real well, the One Who wrote It, the Holy Spirit.
Now, to... Here in Jeremiah, before he was even formed, before he even came into the world, before he had his first existence, before the germ ever become a germ. Then God knew him, He said, and He had sanctified him, and ordained him a prophet to nations before he was even born. You see?
Now the first thing I'm getting to there, is to know this: that it is God's grace, that any of you are saved today. It wasn't your will to be saved. Man by nature is a--is a rebellion against God. And he rebelled in the garden of Eden, he's fallen from grace, and run from God, and he hid from God, and it's the nature of man to do that.
Now, the Bible also says gifts and callings are without repentance, not what you repented, not none of your righteousness. Not gifts and callings are without repentance. It's God's foreknowledge of what He has...
I believe that God in the garden of Eden, before the garden of Eden, I believe that God knew the end from the beginning. I--I believe that. And that everything in the great clock, the great picture, is just moving in, and nothing can stop it. It's going to be just exactly according to what God said it would be.
Now, I think to you and I, and the best things that we could do, as advising you as God's servant, weighing every word that I'm saying, because I realize this, that I'm in contact today with about six or eight million people. Watching, they watch the words that I say, they weigh what I say. They... The nominal world, the church, doctors, lawyers, monarchs, watching, stood in the meetings, great man healed. And they've watched it. They've laid it up. They'll write in and tell me, but many of them like Nicodemus, don't... They walk in at nighttime, or write in, or something like that, but afraid to walk to the platform and say, "I take my side with it."


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