<TITLE>14. Par 59-63</TITLE>L-59 Though through many whirlpools, and alligators, and scary spooks, and everything else, we come through... Through many dangers, toils, and snares I have already come; it's grace that's brought me safe thus far; it's grace that will take me on.
Who's at the receiving end? Listen.
 Forever, set down at the right hand of God;
 From henceforth... (up yonder at the end of the road)... expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.

L-60 Are you ready? Here it is. Here's the last turn on the bolt. Here's the last spot with the torch. Here's the last drive of the nail. This is the one who clinches eternity to eternity and in there the Sword of God's deliverance has went through the heart and hanging up his delegate to the Holy Spirit.
Here it is. Hebrews 10:14. Listen. Not My Word, but God's Word who spoke it before the foundation of the world. It has to be so.
For by one offering He has... (p-e-r-f-e-c-t-e-d) perfected forever them that are sanctified.
Perfected how long? Till the next time you get on a outs with your neighbor, till the next time you see somebody, some man or woman or is lustful, until the next time you see the chance to tell a big lie, until the next time you see where you can net someone, hurt them, and drive them away from church, so sometime you can criticize somebody? Yes, sanctified forever, perfected forever, where the Holy Ghost...

L-61 You might say something sometimes wrong; that's right. You might do something sometimes wrong. That's right, but as soon as you do it, watch the next verse.
Whereof the Holy Ghost... (Oh my. I just can't preach any more. Look.)... the Holy Ghost is a witness to us. (My.)... the Holy Ghost is a witness to us;... after that He has said before,
This is the covenant that I will make with them in those days, saith the Lord, I'll put my law in their hearts and in their minds will I write them;
And their sins and their iniquity will I remember no more against. (Oh, O God.)
Every man that has this hope purifies himself, even as God is pure.

L-62 Let us pray. Heavenly Father, we thank Thee this morning for the purging of the Holy Ghost, for the grace of the living God. We were sinners, unrighteous, ungodly, unlovable, without God, without hope, alienated in the world; and Christ come and took our place. By foreknowledge God saw us in this condition, knowing that we were hungering and thirsting. No wonder Jesus said, "They shall be filled." Not become member, not they shall join, but they shall be filled. Hungering and thirsting for righteousness. In other words, hungering and thirsting, knowing that we can do nothing in ourselves, no matter what we do. The devil could've make us impersonate every gift, could make us go out and lay hands on the sick, and they'd recover, could make us speak with tongues, could make us interpret tongues, could make us have wisdom, knowledge, but that doesn't take it, Lord.
You said, "Many will come in that day and say, 'Lord, Lord, have not I done these things in Your Name.'
You said, 'Depart from Me, you workers of iniquity. I never even knew you."

L-63 O God, then let our hopes be built on nothing less than Jesus' Blood with righteousness; all around our soul gives way, then He's all of our hope and stay. For on Christ, the solid Rock, I stand; all other grounds is sinking sand. To know Him is Life, not to know the orders, to know Him, the Person.
I pray, Father, for ever sinner in the building today that You'll save them just now; and may they, without any emotion, without any contradiction from the devil, but may they with a true, unadulterated faith, believe what they've heard preached, and accept the Holy Spirit Who brought it. Grant it, Lord, for it's in His Name we ask it.


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