<TITLE>15. Par 380-391</TITLE>L-380 Now let's turn over then, again, to Ephesians 4:30. And let's get this, just a minute, and watch what this says, to back this up, to make Scripture go with Scripture. Ephesians 4, let's see. Ephesians 4:30. Let's read and see what It says. Listen.
... grieve not the holy Spirit of God,...
Huh? How we baptized into the Body? One Spirit.
... grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed until the day of your redemption.
That right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] You're sealed into the Body of Christ, by the baptism of the Holy Ghost, not from one revival to another one, but until the Day of the body of redemption. That's what you are. So, there's no way for you to be lost.

L-381   You get scared. And that's the reason scare, a scare, fear companies doubt.
Love companies faith. I love my Father. I'm not afraid of Him, because I love Him. He wouldn't hurt me. He will do good for me. If I was scared of Him, and, "Oh, I don't know whether He will do it, or not." See?

L-382 But if I love Him, "Yes, Father, I--I love You. And I know You're--You're my Father, and You love me, and I'm not afraid but what You'll keep Your Word. It's Your promise to me." That's the way the Spirit of God does.

L-383 "But, oh, if I did this, if I did that." See, there you come to the legal side, again. Never go to the legal side. It's negative.

L-384   The positive side is what you want. It's already a finished work. Christ died, and the sin was killed when He died. And if God foreordained you to Eternal Life, "All the Father has given Me, will come to Me." There you are, can't be lost. You're secured forever. "For by one Spirit we're all baptized into one Body, and by one sacrifice He has perfected forever." There you are. There's no way for us to lose. Correctly. Now, don't it make you feel good? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]

L-385 Now, how do you know you're a Christian? When your spirit bears record with His Spirit, when the love of God is in your heart, when you have love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, patience, goodness, meekness. That's when you... The fruits of the Spirit is following your life.

L-386 Not because you can dance in the Spirit, oh, to this modern rhythm, whoop it up on a piano, to a lot of this here dancing in the Spirit. Them things are all right. But they took the whole thing over on that legal side, see, and therefore, they left the Spirit of God in the back.

L-387   That's the reason, when God begin to manifest Hisself, they said, "Nonsense. We don't want nothing to do with That." They don't know God. They've never seen It. They can't understand It, because there's a different life in there. He doesn't know... Cocklebur doesn't know what the wheat is doing. He's a different life.

L-388 That's the way it is with a Christian, to the carnal believer, the confessor, who goes out and confesses, "Oh, yes, I'm a Christian." A big cigar in his mouth, like a dehorned Texas steer.

L-389 A woman with her shorts on, say, "Oh, yes, I'm a member of the church. Sure, I am." Your fruits prove that you're nothing but carnal. That's right. Certainly, it is. There's only one thing to allow for that: that's either mental deficiency or a spirit of lust on you. That's right.

L-390   If you want to act like the world, the Bible said, "If you love the world or the things of the world, the love of God is not even in you." So there you are.

L-391 Now, you say, "Oh, the Bible said, then I must do that." No, that's not it. Stay here until Christ has done something for you, that take that out of you. Then you're born of the Spirit of God. Not what you do, it's what He done for you. Till you get a love that you've passed from death unto Life. And then watch your life, if it--if it dallys up. Not 'cause you try to make your life, but because God brings you into subjection to His Spirit. It's not you leading yourself in God's way. It's God leading you in His Own way. Not you doing the leading, but God doing the leading.


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