<TITLE>03. Par 20-29</TITLE>L-20 Jesus, when He came along, He said, "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him. You didn't have nothing about coming to God then. God drawed you to Jesus. "And all that comes to Me, I will in no wise cast out. He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Everlasting Life; and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death unto Life. He that eats My flesh and drinks my Blood, hath (present tense) Everlasting Life, and I'll raise him up in the last days." That's what He said, so I'm just quoting His Word. And I believe that it is the truth.

L-21 Therefore, I believe that God set examples. He saved Abraham, unconditional.
He made a covenant with man, and man always breaks his covenant. But man has always tried to find some way to save hisself, try to make hisself. It comes from a strain in the garden of Eden. When man realized he had sinned, he tried to make hisself a religion, a covering. The word "religion" means "covering." And Adam and Eve sewed fig leaves together and made themself a religion. And since then it's been a strain of man down through the age, trying to do something to save hisself.
But you are saved by grace, election: God's foreknowledge, predestination, foreordination. Paul tells the church at Ephesus, that God predestinated us in Christ before the foundation of the world. Think of it: Predestinated us in Christ before the foundation of the world. What we worried about then? Get away from the worry, we're just the happiest creatures you could ever have seen. My, how can you believe that and keep from being happy?

L-24 I used to see old Brother Bosworth, and he said, "Brother Branham..."
I said, "How you feeling this morning, Brother Bosworth?"
Said, "The same old trouble's back on me, Brother Branham."
I said, "The same old trouble, what is it?"
Said, "Just so happy, I can't sleep." I said... He said, "Brother Branham, how can I believe what I believe, without being happy?" See? that's right.

L-27 You know that Christ has already took your place as a sinner. He died. God accepted Him. He rose again, setting at the right hand of His Majesty. God said, "This is My beloved Son in Whom I'm well pleased, hear ye Him." And there He is, the--the Door, the Gate, the Way, the Truth, the Life.
And how do we get into Him? He is the church. The church has Everlasting Life; it's already foreordained to appear without spot or blemish. God's done said it would be there; it's going to be there. Now, God done said so. So then how do we get in the church? By one membership? No. By shaking someone's hand? No. Some form or a bap...? No. "By one Spirit are we all baptized into one Body, and become members of that Body." I Corinthians 12 says, "By one Spirit are we all baptized into one Body, and become members of that Body." By how? Spiritual baptism that inducts us into the Body of Christ, and then we are filled with God's Spirit.

L-29 Sealed till how long? Ephesians 4:30, "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God whereby you're sealed until the day of your redemption." Not from one revival to another; but until the day of your redemption. Amen. Everlasting Life, everlasting just isn't a little a-space of time, everlasting is eternally forever, can't die no more than a grain of corn could become a cocklebur.
And if a man's borned of the Spirit of God, it's automatically he lives the Life. As I said the other night, drinking, smoking, gambling, drink, cursing, swearing, that's not sin; it's the attributes of sin. It's because you are a sinner, the reason those things come forth. But if you're a believer, those things can't come forth, 'cause bitter and sweet water can't come from the same fountain. A cocklebur could. A corn of wheat couldn't bear cockleburs, because the nature of it is wheat. It's got to produce what it is. And if the Holy Spirit's on the inside, it produces the Life of Christ. Amen. That's faith. Amen. All right.


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