<TITLE>06. Par 19-21</TITLE>L-19 And this is God speaking to the heart. You don't realize what that is that you turn down each night in evangelistic service. When God knocks at your heart and said, "Child, I'm inviting you to come to Me tonight. Come by the way of the cross where My precious Son paid the price. Come in at the door; I'm inviting you" and you turn Him down, I imagine you wouldn't turn Mr. Eisenhower down but one time.
"But God is long suffering, not willing that any should perish." And He said, "Come, let us reason together, saith the Lord. Come now, let Me talk it over with you." Oh, I just love it. "Come, and let's set down now in the church tonight, forget about all the day's work, and let's reason it together. Come let us reason together, saith the Lord." Think, that God wanting to reason out with you your problems. And in so, showing you where you're wrong by the preaching of the Word, and then giving you an invitation to come to His house for Eternal Life, and you turn it down, could you imagine that? Well, that's what people do.

L-20 Or could you imagine accepting it and not be elated and happy and full of joy? Say, "Well, I went up and put my name on the book. I've become a charter member of the church." Well, that's what you did. But you never got in... You never accepted an invitation to heaven. You'd be telling everybody about it. Yes. When God really comes down and gives you the invitation, and you accept it really from your heart, you're glad to tell everybody about it. "I'm going to glory. Praise the Lord. God spoke to my heart. Sure, I'm a Christian." You love to do that (See?), if you're really enthused about it.
And God calling sinners that's alien and enemy, God calling enemies to try to be reconciled with them. Not the president now, God of heaven calling aliens, enemies against Him, to reconcile them to Himself and give them Eternal Life and bring them into His home to live forever as children, why, it's more than the human mind could fathom, to think of--of the God of heaven would do something like that. But He did it. And He taught it here.

L-21 Now, the invitations was given. And no one can give the invitation except God Himself. That's right. God has to give the invitation. All right. Now, when God give the invitation... He made the supper ready, the king did. And he made all things ready before he sent out his invitations. The bridegroom would always do that in the oriental wedding ceremony, make all things ready. He said in the Bible here, "I have killed my fatlings; I have killed my lambs and my--my ox and so forth. And the table's all spread; everything's ready." He's got everything ready before He gives the invitations. That was the customs in them days: make everything ready.
Now, God has made everything ready. You don't have to wait for a thing; it's already fixed. Christ has done died once, the just for the unjust, that He might make a way of reconciliation by His Blood, to bring you unto Himself. And He's already made every... Heaven's already prepared. "In My Father's house is many mansions. I'll go and prepare a place and come again to receive you unto Myself."
The preparation has been appropriated for your salvation. Christ died once and settled sin question forever. You were saved the very hour that Christ died. Every person that ever lived in the world from that time hence, was saved at that time. And every healing that was ever performed, the appropriation of the Blood was shed at Calvary for every healing that would ever be taken place when Jesus died at Calvary. It's settled, the question of sin and every attribute of sin.


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