<TITLE>18. Par 418-432</TITLE>L-418   Now, you say, "Well, can't we backslide?" Absolutely. And when you backslide, you're going to get it, don't you worry. Abraham got it, and the rest of them got it, and you'll get it. Don't you think it gives you a right to sin. It doesn't. You'll pay for everything that you do. You'll reap what you sow. You do one little sin and you'll reap a whole washtub full. That's right. But, brother, that don't mean to say that you're lost. That's exactly right. Abraham reaped exactly what he sowed. That's right. But he was still saved.

L-419 The covenant that God made with Israel: they lost their in-heritage, they lost the promised land and went down into Egypt, but they hadn't lost their covenant. God said, "I remember My promise to Abraham. I remember, and I've come down to deliver My people. Go down there, Moses, and tell Pharaoh, I said, 'Let My people go.' I remember I made a promise to Abraham and to his seed."

L-420   That's the same thing it is with us. So if you are dead, and your life is hid in God, through Christ, there is not nothing in the world can touch you. Now, you might go and do wrong, but if you're really, truly, a child of God, and you see you've made a mistake, you'll rise and try again. That's right, and you'll not lay there.

L-421 But if you're cowardly, if you're a cocklebur, if there's no "get up" to you, you'll say, "Ah, well, there wasn't nothing to It, anyhow."

L-422   The Kingdom of God is like unto a man took a net and went to the sea, cast it in. When he come, he had turtles, frogs, snakes, lizards, spiders, and fish. That's the Gospel when It's preached.

L-423 Like the Lord will tell a minister, like Brother Graham, "Go up here. "Go on this corner and fish a little while, Brother Graham." All right, takes his net and goes up there and starts seining.
"Where you going, Brother Bill?"
"I'm going out somewhere else, and cast on this corner."

L-424 I'm pulling, "There they are, Lord, You know what they are." I pull the net again, "All right, here they are, Lord."

L-425 Now, the turtle was a turtle, to begin with. You just got caught in the net. That's right. And that's the way people get caught up in emotion, "O Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Praise the Lord. Glory to God. Hallelujah!" They just got caught in the net, that's all.

L-426 If that old Turtle spirit is in them, it ain't going to be long, they say, "Well, I tell you,..." Here he goes, creeping back.

L-427 And old lady Crawfish will say, "But I just can't understand That." See?

L-428 Miss Spider set there a little while, she go "plop, plop, plop," right back, "Well, there wasn't nothing in It, anyhow."

L-429 Miss Serpent will say, "Oh, they're a bunch of holy-rollers. That's just all there is to It. I'll go down where they got better sense than that." Why, you're a snake, to begin with. The Gospel net just caught you, that's all.

L-430   But the fish is took to the Master's table. He was a fish, to begin with. The Seed of him was a fish. He began, a fish, and God knowed His fish from the foundation of the world. Hallelujah!

L-431 Remember, they're all breathing the same muddy waters out there. They're all breathing out of the same creek. That's right. "We all made... drink of the same spiritual Rock. All did eat manna in the wilderness." Caleb and Joshua eat the same manna that--that the rest of them eat. And they all fell in the wilderness. But there was two elected to go over, and they went over. That's right.

L-432 "We all been made to drink of the same Fountain." But not all that drink is saved. We all made to shout together. We're all made to rejoice together. But the Elected is saved. Did you notice? It said, "The two spirits, in the last days, would be so close till it would deceive the very Elected if possible," if possible. See? That's the real Spirit of God, elected to Eternal Life.


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