<TITLE>05. Par 21-25</TITLE>L-21 But man keeps progressing, keeps getting more wiser, the whole... Your grandfather (as I said) went to see their grandmother in an ox cart; your daddy went to see mother driving a horse and buggy; I went to see my wife in a model-T Ford; my boy's got a eight cylinder speedway, ever what you call it. Probably the grandchildren will have a jet plane. That's the way... We keep progressing because we have a soul. Now, the bird doesn't have a soul. But we have a soul. We're not a creator, but we can pervert.

L-22 Now, we can't create timber but we can take timber after God has created it and make a house out of it, because we're offsprings of God, sons and daughters of God. No matter how fallen we are, still we have to recognize that we are sons and daughters of God. In our fallen estate we're still sons and daughters. God makes a promise, God has to keep that promise. Oh, I hope you see it. If you could only understand, church tonight, and realize, you wouldn't be going from pillar to post, and joining this church and that church. You wouldn't be seeking after the things of the world to bring pleasure to you. You wouldn't be seeking from one healing service to another. You could take God at His Word and know that it's over. Certainly. When God makes a promise, He cannot move from that promise. He's--He's duty bound to keep His Word.

L-23 I heard someone saying, "What if he would backslide and back and the..." You could do that. "Well, I'm lost out with God." If you were ever found with Him, you'll never be lost with Him. Because God can't save you, and then turn His back on you, and turn you away. If He would, He defeats His own purpose. So He can't do that. So when God...

L-24 We, getting wiser, but God was infinite to begin with. He was perfect. He never gets any wiser. He's always the same. So if a certain crisis arise and God acted such-and-such a way at that crisis, then if the same crisis arise again, if He doesn't act in the same way, He acted wrong when He acted here. See? So He has to be the same all the time, regardless of any age. And how people can explain and try to take away the power of Deity, I can't understand it. Because if Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, His power is the same, His attitude is the same. And just as He was then, He is now and will be forever. You just can't take nothing from Him. That's all.
And if He rose in the days of His earthly journey and healed the sick that was beyond doctor's care, and healed them? If He acted that way in that crisis, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, He's got to act the same way today or He did wrong to them people. See? If He made a promise there and had to stay with it, He makes a promise here and He's got to stay with it. He's just got to. There's nothing wrong with God and with His promise. The wrong is in us, not faith to believe it, or to take Him at His Word.

L-25 Now, you see, if we had the gumption of the bird, we'd act like they did in the beginning. But we get so smart, we explain all the world away, and say, "Oh, it was in a day past." And we build another kind of a situation. Instead of taking God at His Word, we just start a new organization. See? "Well, this is the way God will do it, and that's the way God will do it." If we, just like the birds, and didn't change and wasn't on the basis of free moral agency, we would just take God at His Word and that would settle it, and that's all. God said so, so that's all there is to it. How beautiful it is to find that the true and living God still lives today. In the midst of all the chaos still God lives and reigns.


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