<TITLE>14. Par 138-148</TITLE>L-138 I asked you awhile ago before I said this, how many of you love the Lord? And find out, you was all Christians to begin with. See? 'Cause you cannot be a Christian... This is not for the outside world. This is for people of the Lord.
You can't be a Christian, 'less God chooses you. "No man can come to Me, except My Father draws him. And all that comes, then I'll give Him Everlasting Life and will raise him up at the last day." God foreordained it, foreknowed it. Before the world ever begin, He said He predestinated us in Christ as sons of God--of God, before the world ever started. We got to be.
And because you've turned your back, and you seen people who have talked to them; they wouldn't listen to it. They turn their nose up at it. Yet, maybe ministers, maybe preachers of the Gospel, maybe what you would think was renowned Christians not even saved. That's right. Not even saved...
Look at those Pharisees back there, just as religious, and pious, and clean, and holy as they could be, and Scripture minded men like that. And Jesus said, "You're of your father the devil." See?

L-142 There's things in the Bible that the Church don't know nothing about, friend. Right. See? And you wonder sometime, how these things, "Why does the Bible say this? Why did Jesus say..."
Peter said, "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the Name of Jesus Christ, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." And here we have people up at the altar, tarrying for this and tarrying for that, and that'd make God's Word of non effect. God's got to take care of His Word. And the minute you meet His requirement, God will answer His Word that quick. That's right. 'Cause He's there to wait for it.
But you see people saying, "Oh, unless we shout, or unless we speak with tongues, 'less we dance in the Spirit." All those things are all right. They're all right, but they have nothing to do pertaining to salvation, not a thing.
'Cause as soon as you repent of your sins, if truly God's convicted you and you've repented and been baptized in Jesus Christ's Name, God's under obligation to give you the Holy Spirit right then. That's right. 'Cause His Word said so. And He can't...
It's nothing on God's part. It's your part, because people has been mistaught. Each time they come along, get a little something started, they say, "This is it. This is it." Oh, my. It isn't these fleshly demonstrations; they're attributes of the Holy Spirit. But receive the Holy Spirit, is to receive a Person, Christ, then these other things take place in the life.

L-148 We've seen people shout and live all kinds of life. We've seen people speak in tongues and do the same. We've seen people go out and pray for the sick to be healed, and do, live any kind of a life. Jesus said, "Many will come to Me and say, 'Lord, have not I prophesied in Your Name, preached? Have not I cast out devils in Your Name?'"
"Yes."
"Have not I done these mighty works?"
"Yes."
He'd say, 'Well, then, depart from Me, you workers of iniquity. I didn't even know you.'"
"It ain't him that willeth or him that runneth; it's the God that haveth mercy," the Bible said. He said, "Didn't I say to Moses, 'I'll have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I'll harden who I will harden'?"
Paul said, "No man..."
Well, you say then, "How can He find fault? If He predestinated you to eternal destruction, how can He find fault?"
Said, "Oh man, can the thing that's made say to Him that maketh him thus? Can't do it."


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