<TITLE>08. Par 62-70</TITLE>L-62 Look in Romans, 8th chapter. Paul was holding up there, saying about the election of God, that, "Esau and Jacob, before either baby was born, or anything, God said that He knew them and He hated Esau and loved Jacob," before either boy had a--had a chance to express their gratitude, for He was God. He know... He is infinite. If He is infinite, He knowed every flea, every fly, every gnat, everything that'd ever be on the earth. He knew it. He's the infinite, Eternal, immortal, blessed God, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient. There is nothing that He doesn't know. That's the reason He can tell what the end will be. He knowed the end from the beginning.

L-63   What is prophetic is just His knowledge. He's the chief attorney. He, He's the... He's the judge. And He just speaks to the--the lawyer some of His wisdom. And that's what prophecy is, that can foretell it, because He knows what's going to be. Now, there is the God that we serve. Not a god of history, not like the Buddhas and the Mohammadans, and so forth. But, a God that's omnipresent, right now here, this morning, in this tabernacle right now; Great Jehovah, I AM, Who formed Himself in humility, to take on the form of sinful flesh. Here He is. That's who redeemed you. There can be no other, nowhere, at no time can do it.

L-64 God didn't have three people up there, and He sent one of them, His Son. It was God, Himself, come in the form of a Son. A son has a beginning, and the Son had a beginning. That, some of you dear Catholic people, I got your book, Facts Of Our Faith, said, "The Eternal sonship of God." How you going to express that word? How you going to make it have sense? How can it be Eternal? That's not the Bible. That's your book, "Eternal sonship." They don't... That word is not right. For, anything that's a son had a beginning, and Eternal has no beginning, so it isn't Eternal sonship. Christ become flesh and dwelt among us. He had a beginning. Wasn't no Eternal sonship. It's the Eternal Godhead, not sonship. Now, He come to redeem us, and He did redeem us.

L-65   Now, Paul, getting there, which I'm sure that through the past lessons you've understood it. We'll go over it again, sometime, the Lord willing, just verse by verse, now.
Therefore having... leaving the--the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection;...

L-66 That stumbles them. Doesn't it? Let us do what?
... let's go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundations...

L-67   Watch this. Let's get this word "perfection." Do you know there's only one way you'll stand in the Presence of God? That's, perfect. God cannot tolerate unholy things.

L-68 And you legalists: how could you ever perfect yourself, when you have not one thing to perfect yourself with? You were born in sin. Your very conception was in sin. The very desire of you being here was sin. "Born in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies." Now where are you going to stand at?

L-69 Where you, sinner, that--that said, "I'll quit smoking. I'll go to Heaven"? Where are you, lukewarm, mossback, so-called Christian, that goes around here with a long face and saying, that, "Well, I belong to the church"? You sinner. That's right. Unless you are born of the Spirit of God, you're lost. That's true.

L-70   How you going to Heaven? You say, "I never lied in my life. Oh, the little darling. It--it was just an Angel, to begin with." That's a lie. I don't care how good you are; you're a sinner. And you don't have one thing; there's no priest, no bishop, no cardinal, no pope, nor nothing else can save you, 'cause he's just the same boat that you're in. We're getting into it in a few minutes. Just in the same shape he was. The pope of Rome was born in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies, born by the sexual desire of a man and a woman. Where you going to get righteous out of that?


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