<TITLE>16. Par 157-161</TITLE>L-157 If there's an unbeliever here tonight, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ; and the minute you believe, God will give you the witness of it. He will seal you into His Kingdom forever. And if there's anything knocking at your heart, and you feel it, and you refuse to receive it, you'll be a miserable man and woman until you say, "Yes, Lord Jesus."
And may you, through this coming week, this Christmas yuletide, as everybody is happy and singing one to another; may you, with arms... like Simeon of old, when that wonderful Christmastide, when he walked down through the temple, and with his strong arms, oh, picked up the Saviour in his arms and embraced Him, and said, "Lord, let Thy servant depart in peace, according to Thy Word, for my eyes have seen Your salvation." May you, with arms of faith, likewise, this Christmas, embrace not a Santa Claus, or not exchange a present; but may you invite and embrace in your heart with arms of faith the same Lord Jesus that Simeon held in his arms years ago. And He will bless you and give you Eternal Life. And you cannot perish, because you've got the Life of God in you.

L-159 You know what the word... Not go into Greek things. That's to be talked amongst people who talks Greek things. We don't talk Greek things here. We talk Jesus Christ in this tabernacle. We don't come with swelling words here. We come here with knowing nothing but the power of the resurrection of Christ. But the very word, Greek word, means "Eternal Life." The same Greek word in the translation... I got the Hebrew and the Greek, both, and I studied it. I'm not a scholar in it. I just know a few words, just something to help me out. When somebody goes to fussing, I know how to cut them off at it. But when it comes to a place like this, that when... That same Greek word that speaks of God's Life, speaks of the same Life that He gives you. And the, both Greek words, as the Life of God or Eternal Life, is pronounced Zoe, Z-o-e, Zoe, "Life."
"And all that comes to Me, I will give them Zoe, My Own Life; will give them My Own Life, and they shall never perish. And I'll raise them up at the last day." In other words, "Every one that comes to Me, I'll wrap him in Me." Amen. "And he will become a part of Me. And he can no more die than I can die, for I'm immortal and can't die; and his soul's immortal and can't die. And I'll raise him up again at the last day." Hmm. Oh, my.

L-161 Then that just makes us, when the old trials get hard, say, "In me dwelleth the Spirit of God. There's good thing in here but Him that's in there. I'm not my own; I'm His. I don't look for the things of the world. I look for Him, for my hopes is built on Him. Someday I shall see Him, and that's all I've longed for. What I live for is to bring people to Him." And I tell you, the old shackles begin to drop off, and you start walking anew again.


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