<TITLE>04. Par 11-13</TITLE>L-11 This same Word inspired the disciples. It dispire--inspired the first row of disciples, and then the next as they followed, down through the Lutheran age, down through the Methodist age, in every age, and just as sufficient and inspiring today to us as it was the first day it was given. And if the world should stand a million years, that Word would still be just as inspired to the generations that will follow us as It is to us, because It's perfect. And It's always given for the time.
How great God does in His Word. How that even before the world was ever formed, God in His infinite mercy, and in His infancy He--He foresaw all things, and before He ever spoke one word... The Bible said, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." And now, the Word becomes a part of Himself.
And then a word is a thought expressed. And when God saw where His fellow worker with Him, Satan, which was the son of the morning, had deceived Him in a way, that He had entrusted him with great things, and he had perverted what God had created to make evil out of it; God thought the whole thing in His mind. And then when He spoke it, it become true. It become a part of Him and can never, never fail. It's Him. He is the Word.

L-12 So God before the foundation of the world knew that you would be here. He knew you by name before the foundation of the world. Think of it. And many times we sing the song, "New Name Written Down In Glory," tonight. It was an error. It was written down before there ever was a human being on the earth. Your names were written in the Lamb's Book of Life. Amen. Think of it.
The Bible said that Jesus was the Lamb of God slain before the foundation of the world, taken four thousand years for that to materialize. Four thousand years later He was actually slain, but when God spoke the Word in the beginning He was slain right then, because God's Word can't fail. See it?
And the Bible said in Revelation, the last chapter of Revelation that the beast would deceive all those that dwelled upon the earth whose names were not written in the Lamb's Book of Life from the foundation of the world. Don't that make you happy, think that our names were written before the foundation of the world? When the Lamb was slain, our names was associated with Him. Amen. What a picture and what a truth.
Now, this picture upon Mount Transfiguration, as it's called, could be approached from many different angles, but for the sake of time we want to take it this afternoon, as God gathering three people. And three is a confirmation or a witness in the Word of God. I want you to see it. He taken Peter, James, and John. Now, faith, hope, and charity... Peter, of course, we always know he's that great, burly faith that just reaches out after it, whether you can see it or not. And hope: James. And John was charity, because John, even his epistles were called the epistles of love.

L-13 John once was different. You know he was the one who wanted to call fire down out of heaven and destroy his city, because he wouldn't give him something to eat down there, so mistreated him and he wanted to burn the whole thing up. And then after Jesus got a hold of him, it changed him to a man of love.
And that's what God does when He takes some of those hard-hearted fellows like myself and you, and He changes us from our selfish and indifferent motives to a love that we just love Him and melt our hearts away.
Now, He taken those as a witness. He was going to... One great way we could approach it this afternoon, as the coming of the Lord. See, the first a Moses, then Elijah, and then Jesus... Then we notice that Peter while he was there, he had just been freshly inspired, because he'd just give a witness to Who Jesus was, and he was inspired.


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