<TITLE>03. Par 8-11</TITLE>L-8 So I--I'm trusting with all my heart that God will so let us together forget our differences and look straight to the Bible. And I believe that every teaching must come out of the Bible. And I know that God could do things that's not written in the Bible. He can do anything He wants to, 'cause He's God. But I'm always a little afraid that we get off on some sort of a fantastic if we--or some illusion if we didn't stay with the Bible. But if it's in Bible, then I believe it's the truth, because God said so: we got THUS SAITH THE LORD.

L-9 I have noticed, many times, that--that sometimes we might get the... And it does happen that way; we get built up on a fantastic or some little phenomena of something, and we run off with it. But if you'll just keep it right in the Bible, then you got THUS SAITH THE LORD, and God will honor His Word. My word will fail. Your word will fail.
And no man's word is... No man is any better than his word. If you can't... If I couldn't take your word, I--I just can't believe you. That's all. And that's the way I believe God: this Bible to be His infallible Word. And if He has wrote this Bible by--sent It by inspiration, It's been written by several men in several ages and not one word contradicts the other one, all the way through. And It's inspiring. I could read a text here tonight, and I will in a few minutes, God willing... Thousands of years men has read the same text through every age, and it's just as inspiring in each age.

L-10 Now, I might write you a letter and say, "Dear Brother So-and-so, it was a pleasure to meet you..." and how I would express my feeling towards you, and that would be fine. You'd appreciate that if you're my friend. But you would be the only one that that would help. And after while, that--that would go plumb out; it would be no meaning to it at all, after you--the letter would be finished. But not the Bible. Every word is eternal.
When God once speaks anything, He can't take it back; He has to stay with it. And forever and forever that Word will never, just like a circle--finding a corner in a circle, you can't. It's forever the truth.

L-11 Now, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." Now, what it is the Word? The Word is a thought expressed or made manifest. Then before God did anything, He thought it. And when He drew the plan in His mind and then expressed it by the Word, He could never take it back. It had to be--forever be that way; it can't fail; it can't change, 'cause God is infinite. He's omnipresent, omnipotent, and infinite. If He was--if He is infinite, if He isn't, He isn't God. And if He is infinite at the beginning, before the world was ever formed, He knew the end from the beginning. He knew the--every flea, every fly, every gnat, every person. Everything that would ever happen, He knew just exactly what it was before the world ever began. He's infinite. So He, by being that way, could predestinate or foreordain, even for the wrath of His enemies to praise Him.


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