<TITLE>08. Par 27-29</TITLE>L-27 Now, the only way that boy could've ever did that, and know that that was the right sacrifice, it had to be a spiritual revelation from God. That's exactly... It's been every since spiritual revealed Truth. How God, in His mercy, through the operation of the Holy Spirit reveals spiritual Truth, the Word Itself. If you're trying to read It from some educational standpoint, you just read It like you was trying figure out mathematically something. But if you read It after you have received Christ into your heart, It's a brand new Book again. It's just a love story, God writing It to you. It's spiritual revealed.
God's church is absolutely a spiritual revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ. And no man can receive it by his own desire. Jesus said, "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him first." Is that right? It has to be a work of the Holy Spirit in the beginning to draw the person. And when the person comes to God, by the Holy Spirit draw, Jesus said, "I will in no wise cast him out. Give him everlasting life, raise him up at the last day." What a beautiful hope that gives the church.

L-28 And now, friends, that's what I'm trying to get down simple. I'm not a--a teacher. I'm a very illiterate person. But what I--I do know to be basic truth, I know it worked in my case. It's worked in millions of others. It'll work in your case. If you can ever get yourself shook away from everything else, right down to the Word, there you can build steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the works of the Lord, not tossed about from here and there, trying every prayer line, running up-and-down the streets, this one, that one... You'll be stable. "Lord, I believe it because You said so, and that settles it." All demons out of torment couldn't shake you away from it. You know it. When God has once revealed it, spiritually placed it in your heart, that Jesus Christ died at Calvary to heal you, you're well. Amen. No need of coming through any prayer line then. You're well.

L-29 Just like if every one time, by the working of the Holy Spirit, God reveals to you that Jesus Christ died in your stead and it's Him knocking at your heart's door, something happens down here in that little heart, it's over. You believe it?
We have altar calls and bring people up around the altar. That's a--a good tradition of the church, but in the Bible time, "As many as believed on the Lord..." just accepted Him, wherever He was. "As many as believed, was saved.
They had no altar calls. That first originated in the Methodist, around the early Methodist church is coming to the altar. It's a good thing. We should never let it go. Keep it up. I think it's a good thing. Come out there, pour your heart out before God. That's the way to do it. But really, that isn't what saves you. You could stay there at the altar, and pray all night long, cry, walk up-and-down the altar. You could do every penance you could. You could sell everything you got and give to the poor. You could go on a fast for forty days and get so--so wore out from fasting till you just couldn't walk, and never do you any good, until first, you accept... That's it. It's your part. God's did His part. Now, you do your part, just a simple thing of believing it. And when you believe it, that settles it forever.


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