<TITLE>18. Par 70-73</TITLE>L-70 And I think today, brother, when it taken one thing, not an intellectual being, but it taken the love of God to send Christ to the cross and to die there in disgrace and shame. And you mean to tell me that the Pentecostal church or any other church will turn down the real love of God. "I'm not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It's the power of God to salvation." If you're rather say, "Holy-roller." Let us act like that as long as the love of God's down in my heart. Certainly, doesn't matter.
Oh, brother, God gave the Holy Spirit, God's Love to control the church, not smart, educated, but love. Gifts goes in the church, but it don't control the church. Love controls the church. "God so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son." His love constrained Him to do it. And when a love is constrained, then sovereign grace projects its object. May I say that again: When Divine love is projected, grace produces its object. And God loved the world so much till sovereign grace projected a Saviour to the world. Yes, indeed. And when you love God so much, sovereign grace will project to you the baptism of the Holy Ghost to make you live, and love, and to be a real Christian.

L-71 And someday... Just a thought here. Many thousands of years ago when this old earth here was nothing but a big volcanic eruption, there wasn't a speck of life on it, never had been nothing but just volcanic eruption. God, the great Holy Spirit, the Logos went out of God. We call It the Holy Spirit. And when It went out from God, It came to the earth.
Listen and set quiet just a minute, will you now, while I close just a minute. And I want you to think, sincerely, now. If intellectuals is to do it? Think. Is your denomination going to do it? Is your personality going to do it? Or is the Holy Spirit going to do it?

L-72 I want to ask you something? When this great chaos was here, there was nothing here, just nothing but bare rocks, in this volcanic had cooled off. And there she lay. And the Holy Ghost came forth like a hen to her nest, and she begin to brood over the earth. And she begin to brood, or... The word "brood" is the word "coo, or make love, cluck like the hen to her--her chicks," her brood." As It begin to speak, "Let there be. Let there be"... And I can notice, all over the earth there wasn't nothing but our bodies laying there.
We're taught that our bodies come from the earth. We're made of sixteen different elements. That's petroleum, cosmic light, and oh, potash, and calcium, and so forth, sixteen different elements. That's the body. How do we get it built up like this? We eat food. Every day when we put in food, something died. If you eat today, something had to die so you could live. Every time... Because you're living, something dies because you live. If you eat beef, the cow died. If you eat mutton, the sheep died. If you eat fish, the fish died. If you eat bread, the wheat died. If you eat potatoes, potato died. If you eat beans, the beans died. Whatever it is, it's a life. And we can only live by dead substance.

L-73 And now, listen, my brother, I want to ask you something. If it takes--if it takes death to make life here, how much more did something have to die so we could live again, immortal? How much more did it do it. Not the way of smart preachers, not a Catholic priest, not a Rabbi, but it's taken the Life of the Lord Jesus Christ to give His Life as a...?... send back the Holy Spirit so we can live again. Christ said, "Because I live, ye shall live also." I want you to think of it. Notice. Something has to die for you to live daily. Something has to die for you to live eternally. Not your intellectuals, nothing that you can do about it, but it's accepting the Eternal Life that God gave.


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