<TITLE>05. Par 26-31</TITLE>L-26 Blessed Lord, may Your eternal blessings rest upon this people. Save the lost tonight. Bring back those who have once knowed you and have wandered away. Heal the sick and the afflicted. Long may this meeting be remembered in the hearts of these people. And may it be to them as those who came from Emmaus after the resurrection, that first beautiful resurrection morning. When Jesus walked with men, talked with them, but when He got them alone and shut the door behind them, He made Hisself known by a certain way that He did things before His crucifixion, and they knew that It was the resurrected Christ. By Your Presence, may we go like those disciples, not only to Jerusalem, but to the utmost parts of the earth, saying, "Indeed, Jesus has risen from the dead nineteen hundred years ago and still alive. For did not our hearts burn within us as He ministered to us?"

L-27 May every minister be encouraged. Bless those who closed their churches to cooperate in this meeting. God, may their churches grow. Bless every church in the city, throughout the country, and nation, and world. And may there finally come the day when a great coming together will be, and a great shaking just before the taking away of the Body of Christ. Forgive us of our sins. Give us of Thy blessings tonight. Manifest Thyself to us. For we ask it in the Name of Thy beloved Son, the Lord Jesus. Amen.

L-28 Just for a reading of the Word, we're going to turn to Psalms 63 and read just a verse or two.
O my God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsts for thee, my flesh longs for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in thy sanctuary.
Because thy lovingkindness is better to me than life, my lips shall praise thee.
We have here one of the most unusual Scriptures. I shall never forget when I first read that Scripture. I could not comprehend what the Psalmist must be speaking about when he said, "Thy lovekindness is better to me than life." And I can think of nothing else any greater than life. So I wondered what the Psalmist must be thinking of, or speaking of, when he said, "Thy lovekindness is better than life."

L-29 So there must be something that he had in mind. So after studying a little while, I begin to remember that life has many different meanings. Sometimes that life, what people would call life, is not really life. It's perverted life. Because there's really only one Life, and that is Eternal Life. And there's one Eternal Life, and that Life comes from God. Now, eternal has no end, neither does it have a beginning. And now, anything off of that is something perverted.

L-30 Now, sin is nothing else but righteousness perverted. If I might make that clear, it is lawful, and legal, and honorable for a man to take unto himself a wife and then bear children. But a woman who is not married to this man, could live with him as a wife as much as his own legal wife could do, but it would be a perversion. So all unrighteousness is righteousness perverted. So in life, the unrighteous life is nothing but the real life, Eternal Life, perverted.

L-31 Now, many think that drinking, gambling, is life. Many times people get in their head... Like a lovely young woman, she may be pretty, and she'll dress up real nice, go down the street. And the boys will whistle at her, and she'll twist her shoulders, and giggle, and smoke her cigarettes, and she thinks that's living. But the truth of it is, it's death. The Bible said, "The woman that liveth in pleasure is dead while she is alive." It's life to the flesh, but it's death to the spirit and the soul.
Many times, young men become very popular, and they go out with the crowd, and get too much to drink. And they get out on the floor and just become a clown or a mimic, and they throw up their hands and say, "This is life." Oh, my decrepit brother, that's death. "The wages of sin is death." But you call it life.


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