<TITLE>10. Par 37-40</TITLE>L-37 Then locally in the church He's put nine spiritual gifts: gifts of wisdom, knowledge, speaking in tongues, interpretation of tongues, gifts of healing, all these things, all to edify, or to keep together, and to melt together the one big Body of the Lord. That isn't beautiful? God certainly knows what He's doing, doesn't He?
And then to think that after two thousand years has passed by, the Lord Jesus is just as much 'live tonight as He was back there, still with the Church. The second piece of the Covenant is here with us, the Holy Ghost, writing out and doing the very same things that He did when He was here on earth. And He said, "A little while and the world will see Me no more, yet ye shall see Me, for I will be with you to the end of the world." Isn't it marvelous? What a wonderful...
Oh, it thrills the heart of a man to know there's no more guess work. It's all over; it's finished.

L-38 Here, the other night, I got a sermon on my heart, of resting. Oh, my, don't toil any more. "Come onto Me all ye that labor, and heavy laden. I'll give you rest." It was burning. I--I--I had to preach it to somebody, so I just spoke to my wife. I preached to her for about two hours and she went to sleep on me, a preaching resting on the finished works. Amen.
My hope is built on nothing less,
Then Jesus' blood and righteousness;
When all around my soul gives way,
Then He's all my hope and stay.
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand,
All other grounds is sinking sand.
Beautiful. Resting. Oh, I know when He got in, and we're protected from the judgment.

L-39 The waters of the antediluvian destruction was a judgment sent to the world. And the ark with the pitch in it was the covenant. When Noah walked into this covenant, he just got him a seat, and set down, and let it rock away. He was resting in the finished works of God's provision for his salvation. Amen. How it is?
And we come into Christ. Just settle down; it's finished (Amen.), resting solely in the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ. Not one thing could we do, or to save ourself. He did it by His grace. No need of tossing about, and worrying about, and pulling about, and leaving the Methodist to join the Baptist, and leaving this one to join that one. Just rest in Christ. It's all finished, God's grace to us. My, that's really, makes my heart jump a little faster.

L-40 Then we followed him along from the covenant to the 17th chapter of Genesis. And we find there that after he was a hundred years old, God came to him and said, "Abraham, I am Almighty God, the El Shaddai, the Bosom, the--the Breasted God."
What a promise to a man a hundred years old, who had been waiting on the promise of God for twenty-five years, confessing. When it got darker and darker, he growed stronger and stronger. When God lingered and lingered and seemed to get farther away, Abraham's faith built higher and higher; be a greater miracle all the time. He rested on the Word of the living God. God said so. No matter how unreasonable it seemed, it was so, because God said so.
And here he is. And what a name to appear to a man that's hopeless and helpless in the natural realm, a man a hundred years old, and his wife ninety years old, and had lived with her since she was a child, a girl. It was his half sister that he married, probably married her when she was just a girl. And all through their fertile years, no children, way in now, forty years past the time, as it is with women, and still with greater faith than he ever had, that the baby was going to be born.


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