<TITLE>12. Par 46-48</TITLE>L-46 I said, "I want to ask you something. When I was sixteen years old, every time I'd eat a good meal, I got bigger and stronger all the time. And now, I'm even eating better food now than I did when I was sixteen years old, and every time I eat, I'm getting older and weaker. Explain that to me. If I put new life in at sixteen, and it still made me grow and get bigger and bigger, how am I going to pour water in a glass and it filling right straight up till it gets right up to a certain place and then stop, and I pour water in and it starts going down? What happened? Tell me." I said, "For God has said; that's the reason. 'Dust thou art, and dust thou shalt return.'"

L-47 God lets you come up to the age to your very best... might have been... Satan might've afflicted you. You might not have reached that maturity. That's all right. In God's mind, He knows what you was supposed to be. So it got you to that certain picture, when He got you just at the time when you was about twenty-three to twenty-five years old, you're at your best, then He said, "All right, death, here he is, but you can't take him till I call."
And you notice. You start finding out after you get over twenty-five years old, you're just not the person you used to be. What is it? You're failing. Yet you're eating, you're going back all the time. After while gray hairs sets in; your muscles go away; but the picture is in God's mind. And every vitamin, and every bit of calcium, and every bit of--of everything that was in me, when I was my best, and when you was your best, in the resurrection, it don't go nowhere. It come from somewhere, and it is now. It wasn't, then it is; then it is not. It goes back to where it was, 'cause God already drawed in His mind a picture what He's going to make you forever.
And some glorious day, Jesus shall come and all... Look, what can death do to you? Death will keep putting you in the corner, and on the sick bed, and down there, but...?... the last thing it can do is pull you in the Presence of God. And then in the resurrection, everything that death... Oh, hallelujah. Everything that death ever did do to you will be wiped away.

L-48 When God makes this up here to your right place, where you're strong and healthy, and at your best, death set in. But what death done and all of its curse will be taken away, and you'll be back perfect again. Hallelujah. That's our heavenly Father.
Oh, my, when we think of it, of how marvelous... just at... "Here, come here." Stepped right into the flesh and walked down. Here was Sarah, a beautiful young woman. And Abimelech was going to marry her. And so that night God appeared to him and said, "Man, you're just as good as a dead man."
"Why," he said, "Lord, well why?"
He said, "Well, you got a man's wife."
"Why," he said, "You know the integrity of my heart; I didn't know it. She said that was her brother, and he said, 'That's my--that's my sister.'"
He said, "Yes, that's the reason I kept you from sinning against Me." But listen... Showed God's sovereignty. There was Abraham, God gave the promise to.


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