<TITLE>08. Par 65-73</TITLE>L-65 Now, you can't do it in your old mind. You can't do it. You're like trying to put paper on a building, or paint it up, when the conditions are too bad, when the foundation is condemned. If the government condemns a house, the foundations is rotten, how can you build upon that house? You're only building for a fall. No matter how much you paint the inside, how good a paper you put on it, how many shingles you put over the top of it, how many shrines you raise up, how many crucifix you put in it, it's got to fall, for the foundation is wrong. The foundation is rotten.
And man, in his own mental way of thinking, is wrong to begin with. He's an alien from God. He's cut off, without hope, without God, without mercy. And the only thing that he can do is to come and accept Christ. And then the Holy Spirit comes in, and the mind that was in Christ is in you.

L-69 Jesus said, "The Father that sent Me is with Me." Oh, my. What a declaration, what a word. "The Father that sent Me come with Me." Listen. "And as the Father sent Me, so do I send you." He don't only send you, but He goes with you. "I'll be with you, even in you, unto the end of the world." All that was in God was poured out in Christ; and all that was in Christ was emptied out into the believer, the Church. God is with you. "Lo, I am with thee always, even to the end of the world." That's the declaration of God's Word. That's what the Bible says. That's what I believe.

L-71 And if we had to stand it alone, stand it, for it's God's Word. Every man that ever got anywhere, had to stand alone on his convictions only. That's not in a partnership. There's only One Who will walk it with you, and that's Him Who made the statement, the Lord Jesus. He's the One that will trod the valley with you. He will go through every briar patch and climb every mountain by your side. Yoke yourself up with Him. "For My yoke is light, and My burdens are easy." Don't be yoked up with the things of the world. Don't be yoked up in different societies and organizations. Yoke yourself singly with the Lord Jesus Christ, in order that you can do it. Believe, and see the resurrection.

L-73 Now, these apostles, being yet men who had walked with Jesus, who'd had fellowship with Him, walked along in the natural as man today. But they failed to recognize Who He was. Jesus said, "The Blind Pharisees," He said, "Oh, you do take the commandments of God," notice, "and make them of none effect by your traditions." See? There they was, teachers, scholars, seminary students. And the Scripture plainly said that Jesus would come in the manner that He come, but their traditions didn't teach it that way. They tried to rub it all out, and say, "That was some other time. And this will be for some other time." But God come just the same.
And today, as it was then, so is it now. They set this part aside, and this part aside, and say, "God did then; He won't do now. That's not for this day."
"He's the same yesterday, today, and forever." That's the Scripture. That's what we believe to be the truth. That's what we accept to be the truth. He's same in principle. He's same in power. He's the same in love. He's the same in every way that He was then.
Now, He has come with the Church, as God sent Him and went with Him, so that that God raised Him up. If God hadn't have been with Him, He'd have never raised Him up on the third day. So the Father that sent Him, is always with Him, went with Him to the grave, and raised Him up on the third day.
Now, "As God sent Me," He said, "so do I send you. I'll be with you, in you always to the end of the world." At the resurrection, when our Easter comes, He will be there just the same as God was on that Easter morning, raised Him up from the dead.


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