<TITLE>07. Par 26-29</TITLE>L-26 When I go down in Mexico... The other day I brought the wife a little old present, wasn't over about fifteen cents in American money. My, I seen those eyes sparkle, and a big smile come across her face, and she put her arms around me. My, that was worth more than any fifteen cents. See? Why? I love her; I want her to do it; I want her to feel that way about me. That's the way I feel about her.
That's the same thing it is, but only a million times greater before God. I want to do something, like to walk up in His face and know... No, I don't have to tell Him, He knows it, whether I'm true to Him or not, whether I love anything better than He--better than Him or not. I want Him to know it and to act it. And then when I can go have a great revival somewhere, that He lets me have, and bring in lots of souls, or somebody be healed that's sick and afflicted. And somebody goes around town and says, "Oh, I was once crippled, and look at me; I'm well now."
Oh, I just like to feel Him put His arms around me, say, "That was wonderful." You know what I mean?
It's good. It's... You long to do this when you're a Christian. You want to do it. You desire to do it. And the thing to do then is to pray to God to give you wisdom to do it to know what He will do for you.

L-27 Now, Jacob, as a wanderer, yet in the promise he run for his life. Well, he wouldn't have got killed anyhow. God was with him. And then one day after tired, running through the wilderness and looking back, see if Esau was coming, you know, and scared and nervous, and wondered if he could hear the gallop of a horse hoof somewhere, Esau... And Jacob, probably with his little spear to keep the animals off of him, running as hard as he could with His little old ragged coat tearing through the wilderness, climbed up on a great big high hill so he could look way off and see if he seen Jacob coming anywhere.

L-28 In the evening the sun was going down, the poor little fellow was tired, so he just rolled some rocks together and laid down for a rest. Notice, he fell into a trance. God was talking to His servant, because in His servant, not because he was righteous, but because God had made a promise... Amen.
Look the way Jacob got it. But God had made a promise and had to keep it. In the loins of Jacob laid the blessed righteous seed coming forth from there according to the seed Isaac his father, which had been promised though Abraham. In Jacob's loins was the seed laying there, whether it would come out many centuries or generations on, but there was the promise.

L-29 God took Jacob and showed him some of the future, knowing that he was an heir of the promise, not because he deserved it, because God had promised it. Not because that you got a right, not because that something you done, but God's give you that same kind of a promise. For when we are dead in Christ, we take on Abraham's Seed, and are heirs with Abraham in the promise.
Now, the only way you could be an heir is to be dead to yourself, take on the Seed of Abraham, which was Christ; and Christ can only come by the Holy Ghost. That's right. And then you're heir of the same promise, a pilgrim (Listen at it), a pilgrim and a stranger, seeking a city to come, whose Builder and Maker, sojourning, wandering about. Amen. There you are. Pilgrim, but a faith that looks steadfast through the dark sky and the cloudy weather, and sees beyond that, God, God in His great domain, dominion above...


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