<TITLE>14. Par 136-143</TITLE>L-136 That's the way it is with Christianity. To receive Jesus Christ, doesn't... I heard people say, "Well, glory to God, I once cursed. I could cuss the hat off of a man's head. And I quit cussing; I know I'm a Christian." No, you don't, by that. No, sir. "I once drank, and I quit drinking." That's a good thing. But that's the moral thing that you stopped.
But to receive Jesus Christ is to receive His Person into your heart. That makes you die to the things of the world, if Christ lives in you. See? You absolutely could quit drinking and still not be a Christian. You could keep all ten commandments and still not be a Christian. For if the ten commandments would've saved you, Jesus wouldn't have had to die. But Jesus died that He might give you Everlasting Life. And that's what it is. It's the Holy Spirit living in you. Not keeping laws or doing things, or something like that, that's works. "Not by works are you saved; but by grace are you saved, through faith."

L-138 Then if, in your heart you have received the Lord Jesus you're at peace with Him... Watch back, your life. I'll tell you the kind of Christians I like to see. When they walk down the street say, "Now, look, see that fellow going there? Now, he's a Christian. I don't belong to his church, but, brother, he's a Christian. I'll tell you, I've seen him in the tight places. See that woman there? Yes, sir. Well, she might not look so popular amongst the women, but she's a Christian. I tell you; she's a Christian." Let the whole city say, "There's a Christian." They'll know it. The Bible said you're sealed.

L-139 Did you ever put a seal on anything? They take it up like this and put a seal on it. They press it. It's on both sides.
They see you coming and see you going. Is that right? You're a Christian, through and through, sealed by the Spirit of God. They know what you was. That's right. It's a pressing, a marking, a sealing. That's exactly the truth. Now, that's when you're sealed in the Kingdom of God.
If that paper is ever once legally sealed by a notary public, and his name's signed on it, it's legal as long as it's a paper, brother. That's right. Is that true?

L-142 And if a man is ever born of the Spirit of God, not make-belief, but really filled with God's Spirit, He's sealed him in there till the day of his redemption. He will be Christ-like today. He will be Christ-like tomorrow. He will be Christ-like the next day. In the trials he's Christ-like. In troubles he's Christ-like. In hunger he's Christ-like. In joy he's Christ-like. Everywhere you see him or her, they're Christ-like; for you're sealed by the Holy Ghost. See what I mean? That's not your spirit.

L-143 Brother, sister, don't play around with God too long, for the time might come when the jubilee time passes your door. Then you're took to the post of the devil, then you're bored through the ear and you can't hear the glorious Gospel no more. "What do you mean?" You won't have any use for It. You know what the blasphemy of the Holy Ghost is? It's to reject It. That's right.
When they blasphemed the Holy Ghost, when they rejected Jesus Christ, they called Him Beelzebub. And the very works that He was doing, they said, "You do it by Beelzebub." Jesus told them then, that, what they had done. They believed not Him.
And if a man refuses to believe Truth when Truth is presented to him, and he refuses to believe It, then that finishes it. That's certain.


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