<TITLE>02. Par 5-8</TITLE>L-5 Now, I wish to read for a moment, and then try to finish up and start the prayer line at nine o'clock. I want to read a familiar old text, that seems to be on my heart tonight, out of the 3rd chapter of Saint John and at the 16th verse. Which most any child in the audience tonight, that's had any training of the Bible, could quote this text.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
And for a subject, I would like to take a very strange one, and that is "Divine Love." The Bible says, "That God so loved the world..." Of Divine love and when Divine love is projected to its object, sovereign grace steps in and produces what is projected.

L-6 God does things in such simple ways. I think many times that's how people lose the very meaning, is because that God does things so simple. Men are looking for some great--some great thing to take place, when God dwells in simplicity.
When Jesus came on the earth, men were looking for the Messiah to come in great splendor. But when God sent His Son to the earth and sent Him, not born in some royal kings family, and neither did He bring Him to some great religious order. But He visit a little peasant girl, and He chose to bring His son through that child, no more than a little teen-age girl.
Not only that, but usually when a king is born there is great singing among the people, and there the celebrity of the world is looking or of that nation, for this child to be born. And there is usual a special preparation for this child. The hospital room is all decorated in pink and so forth, the day that the doctors are brought, standing by.

L-7 But the strange thing that God brought His Son to the earth through this little virgin. She had been riding all day on the back of a donkey. And there was no room for her at the hotel. And God so chose it that His only begotten Son was born in a stable in a manger. How simple God does things.
That sometimes is to confuse the minds of the wise and prudent, so that babes will have a chance to know it. And if God down through the age has done thus... And many times what He does seems to be ridiculous in the sight of the world. God can do some of the most ridiculous things in the eyes of the world.

L-8 One time in the Bible when a young man by the name of Moses had been very well trained in all the strategies of the most mightiest nation in the world... A great military man and had been taught with one of the best teachers that could be taught in religion his mama. Forty years of experience, and with all of his techniques and all of his strategy, he failed to do the job. And then God took him on the back side of the desert, and there kept him for forty years.
And one day God come down in a little burning bush, and Moses knowed more about what he was to do in five minutes in the Presence of God, than all of his Egyptian strategy had taught him in forty years.
All of his training never competed with that great moment in the Presence of God. And God was going to deliver His children. It seemingly that He had brought the boy up to have his foot on the throne to take the great Egyptian army and liberate His people. Sensibly speaking, the way the world counts it, that would've been the way to do it; but God did it in a simple way.


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