<TITLE>06. Par 17-20</TITLE>L-17 Our ministries become the same, brethren. It has our best, our beginning, our middle part, the best, then close. Your life starts as a baby, then in your adolescence, then the middle age, then closes. Same as the sun rise in the east, sets over in the west, everything is beginning and ending.
Every time that God is ready to do something on the earth, He always... First before He sends judgment, He sends mercy first. And when man spurns mercy, there's nothing left but judgment. Is that true? If you won't accept mercy, then there's nothing left for you but judgment. So God, before He does anything, He always foreshows the people. If you'll believe it, I believe that our being here in Connersville this day is a foreshadow. God doesn't do things just to be a clown; He isn't. He doesn't put on shows. He does it for a purpose. Every Word goes right to its place. Not one jot or tittle can fail, it stands forever.
I think of that Scripture, "Thy Word is confirmed in heaven forever." Nobody doubts it in heaven. It's we mortals that doubt it. Everything in heaven believes His Word. What God says, that settles it. "Thy Word is settled in heaven forever," It's already settled.

L-18 Now notice, then just before the coming of Jesus, which had been prophesied from the garden of Eden, John the Baptist was prophesied to come. And Zacharias... I want you to notice the family now: A religious, holy, man. Something awful had happened in their family, they had a bab--or they wanted a baby. Them days it was a disgrace not to have babies; today it's a disgrace to have one nearly. How it's changed. People don't have time to raise children.
Now listen, this is my afternoon to be with the Lord here in the in services. I just say what He tells me to say. But it's a sad day, when they created wash machines and dishwashers and everything, they give the women all this time to lay around barrooms and things, and drink, and smoke cigarettes, and run out over the country. That's right. Come busy-body, idlers, plenty of time, nothing to do. It'd be better if you had the scrub brush and back in the wash with these kind of wash machines, the way my mother used to do it. That's right.

L-19 Now, I'm not--not only that, but men, they have to set the time up so they can get out and play golf or something like that, take a little exercise, get some of the fat off of them. What a pity. And the rest of the world starving to death. You think we're not going to receive damnation for these things. Sure, we will. I've left the nations, them poor little children wringing their hands and their eyes and crying, their little dirty faces like that, crying for a piece of bread. In America some... sometimes in the afternoon, or mid-afternoon, a eight dollar plate, and half of it raked off in the garbage can to feed to the hogs. It's not right. And brother, the time's coming when God will make us pay for those things too.
But this man Zacharias and Elisabeth his wife were righteous people, holy, prayed all the time. And now, it come time for Isaiah's prophecy to be fulfilled, yet it had been spoke eight hundred, or seven hundred and twelve years before. "There'll be a voice of one crying in the wilderness."

L-20 Watch the prophetic wheels of God, just the time that prophecy's ready to be fulfilled, the other called will be there, when that one gets there. Jesus will be here just exactly on time. The Church will go up just exactly on time. Won't be nothing fail. Just as God has ordained it, so will it be.
Now, watch these people. God came down on the earth, no doubt, to look around to find somewhere that could produce the fulfillment of His Word. And He found a man by the name of Zacharias, who was righteous. God always waits to get the low and deprived and the outcast. That's the reason I love Him; He picked me up. The poor of this world, that's humble in heart and willing to learn...


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