<TITLE>05. Par 16-18</TITLE>L-16 "No man can come to Me except the Father draws him."
You said, "Oh, I sought God, I went seeking for Him." No, no, God sought for you, not you for God. Human nature proves that. When Adam sinned, he didn't start hunting God; he started hiding from God. And Jesus said, "No man can come to Me except the Father draws him." Then God drawed you first.
How many in here, sinner or saint, has said this, "I have... know that God has spoke to me, trying to get me to come to His Son, Christ Jesus"? Let's see your hand. Just raise your hand, sinner or saint, don't matter who you are.
You mean there's only about one-third of this people that ever heard God speaking to you to become a Christian? I ought to change my text and preach the Gospel and call for a altar call. See? Sure. If it isn't... "No man can come to Me, except God, the Father, draws him," said Jesus. See? Now. "Then he that comes, I will in no wise cast out. He that comes, I will give him Everlasting Life."

L-17 Now, that's not just from one revival to another; that's Everlasting Life, forever, a imperishable. We are sowed with the incorruptible Seed of God which cannot perish. See? It's incorruptible; it can't perish.
And how that God made His promise and how He brought His people. And Joseph down there when he died, he made mention of his bones, that they shouldn't bury him there.
There--there's a little seed here. I'd like to drop it just for a moment, if you'll bear with me. Now, this is between the lines.
You know the Bible is written, and scholars... As I heard a man on the radio this afternoon denying Divine healing, said, "Bring me a little baby over here, let me put a scratch on its arm. let these Divine healers come and make it well, them I will believe Divine healing." Oh, my. That man needs to be in the psychopathic ward. That's right. Well, that... I've got a child six years old would know better than that. But yet, there you are.

L-18 Why, certainly, that's the same spirit that said, when they put a rag around Jesus' eye and hit Him on the head, said, "Now, You're a Prophet, tell us who--who hit You." It's the same one that said to Him, hanging in the cross, said, "Now, if You be the Son of God, come down and we'll believe it."
Jesus said, "I don't do nothing till the Father shows Me. And when the Father shows Me, that I do." Otherwise, He didn't clown for people. This is not a stage show, vaudeville act. It's the power of God unto salvation to those who believe. Now, but let them alone. Blind lead the blind, they'll fall in the ditch.
Now, Jesus said, and the Scriptures declare that God has hid this Gospel from the eyes of the wise and prudent. So you'll never know it by theology. And will reveal it to babes such as will learn... Is that right? So just remember, it's hid from the smart people. You'll never know it. You don't know it by your theology, by education; you know it by faith, you believe it. And faith is something you can't see or know.


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