<TITLE>06. Par 22-26</TITLE>L-22 We're taught in the Bible that Jesus was a Lamb, slain from the foundation of the world. We understand that He wasn't slain, really, until four thousand years later. But when God spoke the Word, it was a finished work when God spoke It. He was slain back here at the foundation of the world when God foresaw, and knew what He would do, and He spoke the word. And it was finished right there.
And to give you a little courage... Which I find amongst the American Christians, that the great lack is--is a fear. The American Christian seems to be afraid that God won't keep His Word, and afraid if you just don't squeeze and hold or something... It's nothing that you can do in the beginning; it's what God has done.

L-23 You never sought God, though you thought you did. But the Bible claims that you didn't. No man seeks God. His nature from the garden of Eden proves that he's a coward and runs when he sins. It wasn't Adam calling God; it was God calling Adam.
And the Bible says, that you might rest assure, that your names were written on the Book of Life, your names who are in the body of Christ tonight, was written on the Book of Life before the foundation of the world. That's what the Bible said in Revelations. And he deceived all that dwell upon the earth whose names were not written in the Lamb's Book of Life from the foundation of the world. So when the Lamb in God's great knowledge, was slain here by His Word at the beginning, you were slain with Him, when the world first began.

L-24 And now, when God promised a royal Seed that would come forth as a Saviour, it's been the work of our--God's enemy, the devil, to try to destroy that Seed all the way down. The first thing, when the righteous son was born, Abel, and the unrighteous was born, Cain, first, he slew Abel thinking he was getting that righteous Seed.
For he was standing there when God pronounced the everlasting earthly judgments upon the people, and upon the serpent, and upon the ground, and He promised through the woman would come a Seed. And this Seed would bruise the serpent's head. And the serpent fought at that Seed all down through the age, and he's still fighting It.

L-25 Then when he slew Abel, he thought he got it, because he destroyed the only righteous part of the seed. Then God raised up Seth to take his place, a beautiful type of the death of Christ and the resurrection of Christ. And then, he thought he had Him when he got the prophets. He thought he had Him when he got John. But when he finally slew the righteous Seed, and He was buried, on the third day, God raised Him up from the dead, the Lord Jesus.
Now, that's an infallible proof through skeptics, and--and infidels, and other religious people, and social preachers, who preach the social gospel and so forth, that deny the virgin birth and the resurrection. To me, that takes the very foundation from under Christianity.

L-26 Recently in--in... Over--over the seas at Zurich, Switzerland, the famous evangelist, Billy Graham, was in the stadium that afternoon closing his service on Saturday, and I flew in just in time to get to hear the last of his service. And I began on Sunday, where the Lord give us fifty thousand precious souls to His Kingdom.
And now in there, hearing Billy preaching on the supreme Deity of the Lord Jesus, I wondered why he took such a text. Lately, I've found out, and in their own writings, that they hold onto the old Zwingli teachings of the Scripture, whence there was Calvin, and Luther, Zwingli. But Zwingli believed that Jesus was the Son of God in a way that He was the prophet that Moses spoke of but not virgin born.


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