<TITLE>13. Par 43-45</TITLE>L-43 He's addressing this to those now that have come into Christ Jesus by the Holy Spirit, grace, saluting them now.
 Grace be unto you, and peace from God our Father, and  from the Lord Jesus Christ... (giving them the  blessings of God)... Grace be unto you, and peace from  God the Father... the Lord Jesus Christ.
 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus  Christ, Who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings  in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
Now, the fellow said, "I can be a Christian and stay home just as well." No, you can't. No. You've got to meet together with the rest of the Body. He has blessed us together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
Did you know, ninety-some-odd percent of America... (Listen, I was shocked.) Ninety-two, or ninety-seven (somewhere along there) percent of America never attend church on Sunday. Ninety-some-odd percent of them goes to the devil's work every Sunday instead of to the church. Think of it: great big churches on every corner, a handful in each one. And then there... They sit in there; they fuss, and stew, and proselyte with one another, then say you found the Lord Jesus. Oh, my. Cart before the horse.
Now, maybe the Lord will pour a little healing balm on tonight and put all this down. But it's on my heart, and I have to give it out. I don't know whether I'll ever live to be back again. And I want to stand there at the judgment bar; I want to say I'm free from all men's blood.

L-44 Come back, friends. Come back to the love of God. Don't go after every wind of doctrine, and jumping here and there. And every time a little something flies up, run away from the church, and run over here, and over here. It's just cults jumping up. I don't say that they're--they're wrong, speaking, but yet they're hungry hearted children. What we need to do. All get together everywhere, and come together, and set in heavenly places, and get back to God, then God will go to working with you. Watch?
 ... setting together in heavenly places...
 According... (3rd verse, or 4th verse)... According  as He has chosen us in Him...
According that he has chosen Him in us, or Him choosing us in Him? Who done the choosing? God did. You didn't; I didn't; God did. "You haven't chosen Me, but I have chose you," said Jesus. Look.
 According as He has chosen us in Him... (How?)... chosen us (the elect, now, the ones that's in Christ  Jesus)... He... chose us in Him... (When? Yesterday?  The day before? Listen at the Scriptures.)... before  the foundation of the world...
I'm surely not reading that wrong. That's the way it reads here in the King James version. God chose you in Christ before the foundation of the world was ever laid. Then if God knew that, what you scared about? If God knew way back before the foundation of the world to choose you in Christ Jesus, and you come and accepted the call, what you scared about? What's the matter, sisters, He can heal, can't He? Sure. Can't you, brother, in that wheelchair, sisters? Sure.

L-45 "God chose you in Christ before the foundation of the world. That's what the Scripture said.
 ... that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love:... (In what?)... in love;... that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love:
Oh, that's without blame, without blemish, not one spot on the Church at all. Now, how we ever going to get that way? We can't do it. You're human, and you're subject to all kinds of mistakes.
Now, we're coming down to the perfection of it. Let's turn over here to Hebrews just a minute, over in, if you will, in Hebrews the--well, let's say... Let's begin at the--the 9th verse, or the 9th chapter and the 21st verse. Listen at Paul speaking. First, over... Let's take the 10th chapter just a moment for a verse here.
 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never make with those sacrifices that's offered year by year continually make the comer unto perfect.


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