<TITLE>14. Par 128-135</TITLE>L-128 The Methodists thought when they shouted they had it, but they found out they were wrong. A lot of them shouted and didn't have it. The Pentecost come along; they spoke in tongues; they said "We got her," but they found out they were wrong. Many of them spoke in tongues had nothing. "Though I speak with tongue of men and Angels, and have not love, it profit me nothing." They didn't have It. That's right. That's the reason the whole world was deceived by it, and do the other thing. That isn't the answer. Not any fleshly demonstration or emotion, but something has happened in here that's changed your whole opinion, changed your whole nature. You are converted; not you, but Christ has come into you and converted you. Your nature's dead of the old man, and you're borned again, and you're a new man. Watch. Amen.

L-129 Say, I'm getting late here, won't I? Holler at me in just a little bit, back there, brethren, if I get just a little too long. I got to get children of Israel down in here, just in a minute, but I want to show you how this is God's business to do these things.
You still love me? All right. Now, just keep praying for me. All right. But you just let me cool down just a little then; now, just a moment.
Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they the children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
That it is, they which are the--the children of the flesh, those are not the children of God: but the children of the promise... (Oh, look at that.)... are counted for the seed.
"The children of the promise." Promise what? What kind of a promise? That God promised before the foundation of the world. He told them, "That's the Seed." Not because you quit doing this and quit doing that, and quit lying, quit stealing. That's just moral acts; a good citizen will do that. You can't call yourself a Christian yet until something in here has happened, until you're regenerated, of something that's happened in here. Notice.
For this is the word of the promise, As this time I will come, and Sarah shall bear a son.
And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one,... (Listen to this now.)... even by our father Isaac;

L-131 Put on your jackets; get your helmet ready. This will turn you around.
For the children being not yet born,... (This is Esau and Jacob.)... neither having done... good or evil, that the purpose of God according to the election...
I'm letting that soak a long time. Wake up now just a little one. Esau and Jacob, before either child was born, 'fore they even knew what was right and wrong...
... that the election of God might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;
Whew. I thought you quit eating meat to get saved? You have nothing to do with it. If you're saved, God called you before the foundation of the world and saved you. Is that right? Now, watch.
As it is written, as it is said to her, The elder shall serve the younger.
As it is written, Jacob have I loved, and Esau have I hated.
Before either child was born God said, "I love one and hate the other one." Is that God's Word? I'm not responsible for It, nothing but to preach It.

L-135 Now, election is nothing you had to do; it's what God's done. God did it in Christ for you before the foundation of the world. "All the Father has given Me will come to Me." Hallelujah. Oh, my. Excuse me. I'm not excited, but I'm happy. "All the Father has given Me will come to Me, and he that comes to Me I will in no wise cast out. He that eats My flesh and drinks My Blood worthily, after he's received the Spirit, hath Everlasting Life. I'll raise him up in the last day." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]


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