<TITLE>05. Par 18-21</TITLE>L-18 Our dear heavenly Father, it is indeed with a great privilege that we stand tonight before this group of people with Thy Word laying open. And we realize that it is of no private interpretation. And Thou alone, Lord, can interpret Thy Word. And we ask Thee to be so kind to us to come tonight and send the Holy Spirit, that He might get right in the Word and interpret the Word to us, and It's right life.
For we are a hungry people who are desiring to know truth. And we do not want to know truth to argue points. We want to know truth so that we can be free before God, and that we might be His servants, and might be able then to help others to know the Lord Jesus.
And we ask tonight that You'll bless us with Your Presence. And may the Holy Spirit take the Word of God and deliver it to every heart just as we have need. And then at the close of the service, we'll be thankful, Father, and give Thee all the praise. For we ask it in the Name of Thy own beloved Child, the Lord Jesus. Amen.

L-19 In the reading of the Word, over in Saint Matthew's, and the 28th chapter, we read this, beginning with the 10th verse:
 And Jesus said unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go unto Galilee, and there shall they see me.
 And now when they were going, behold, some of them which came into the city, and showed unto the chief priests and all the things that were done.
 And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers,
 Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.
 And if this come unto the governor's ears, we will persuade him, and secure you.
 So they took the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.
And now over in the book of Saint Luke, and the 24th chapter of Saint Luke, and the 31st verse, beginning we read:
 And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.
 And they said one to another, Did not our hearts burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened unto us the scriptures?

L-20 Now, these are the words of the Bible. And it's been my humble privilege to preach the Bible around the world, and by the grace of God, and my second million souls to win for Him, around the world. And I have found it to be a true Book, and every promise is absolutely the truth. Every promise in It is a seed, and a seed in a right ground will bring forth what the seed is--the life of the seed.
And now, we wish to take this tonight as a subject for just a few moments, by the clock, and that is of the... "I am Contending for the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus and the Infallible Proof of the Resurrection."

L-21 Now, men can say anything that they desire to. And many say things that they should not say. And... But when God speaks anything, it's forever the truth. God cannot alter that, for He's once spoke it. "In the beginning was the Word; the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
And then, what is a "word," is "a thought expressed." And when God once thought of how He would make the plan of redemption, and how He would redeem man by foreknowledge, knowing that some would desire it, and some would be redeemed. He thought of the plan, and then when He spoke the word, it was already a finished work in heaven when God spoke it.


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