<TITLE>11. Par 38-41</TITLE>L-38 Gifts and callings are without repentance. You absolutely receive them when you're borned in this world. The Bible says that. How many believes in predestination, foreordination, election, calling, so forth? If you believe the Bible, you have to.
Some of you didn't put your hands up. I want to ask you something then. Jesus Christ was the Son of God from the very foundation of the world. He was a Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. You believe that? He was the woman's Seed that was to the bruise the serpents head. You believe that? Then He was predestinated, foreordained of God. Do you believe that?
When Moses was born, he was a proper child, and was borned a prophet. You believe that? Nothing nobody had to do with it. God made him a prophet before he was born to fulfill Abraham's prophecy.
How many believes that... Why, John the Baptist seven hundred and twelve years before he was ever born, Isaiah saw him. Said, "He is the voice of one crying in the wilderness." You believe that?
Look at this.

L-39 Jeremiah--when Jeremiah... The 1st chapter of Jeremiah, 4th verse, I believe it is, God said: "Before you was even formed in your mothers belly, I knew you, and called you, and sanctified you, and ordained you a prophet over the nations," before he was ever borned. You believe in predestination, foreordination? We could go right on down through the Scripture. Yes, sir. It's altogether by grace. It's not by desire; it's by grace.
God called Abraham out of that whole world of people. Why? 'Cause Abraham was better? No, sir. It's grace. God's chosen, election, and call. You are what you are because the grace of God has made you what you are. Who taking thought can add one cubit to his statue? Is that right? It's by grace. These things are called. God has set in the Church.

L-40 Now, Jesus said this, "A little while and the world seeth Me no more." The world is the--the--the cosmos there, which means "the world order." "The world sees Me no more, yet ye (the Church) shall see Me." The Church now, that's this Church here, the believers. "The believers shall see Me, for I'll be with them, even in them, to the end of the world." Is that right?
Then if that is true, that makes Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. Is that right? Then if He is the same, He does the same kind of works that He did then. Is that true? All right.
I'm here tonight to say that Jesus Christ is here tonight, and is gathered, "Wherever two or three are gathered together in My Name, I'll be in their midst." Is that right?
Now, we believe that. Don't doubt, believe it. How do we... Take all doubt away from me. Don't wonder. What if Abraham tried to wonder. What if Jonah in the belly of the whale tried to wonder? What if all the other heroes of faith wondered? How is it going to be? As long as you can figure it out, it's not faith any more; it's got to be something you can't figure out.

L-41 Here the other day, a doctor said, "I--I studied to be a minister, studied four years. I become an agnostic; I throwed the thing up. There's nothing to none of it." He said, "I studied Mohammed. They had virgin births. Buddha, they had virgin births. Here's the Bible..."
I said, "Just a minute, doctor." I said, "You're trying to compare error with Truth." That's right.
People say, "Why, he's a... That's mental telepathy. That's reading the mind." You're trying to compare error with Truth.
I said, "One of them is ridiculous and the other one's sublime." That's right. They can't prove one thing, Mohammed can't. And neither..." I said, "I visit the grave of most all them founders. But where is Jesus buried today?" I said, "He rose again."
Said, "How do you know they didn't steal Him away?"
I said, "They rose again."
He said, "How do you know?"
I said, "He liveth now."
He said, "Where?"


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