<TITLE>19. Par 161-174</TITLE>L-161   Your--your attitude towards Christ will make a great impression on what your children will be. Your life that you live before your family will make an impression on what your children will be. Cause, the Bible said, that, "He would visit the iniquity of the parents upon the children to the third and fourth generations."

L-162 Now, just a few moments, before closing.
And therefore if perfection (there's your perfection again) were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need that there come... another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

L-163   The law, the legalist, see, "Oh, you have to do this. If you don't do this, you're not a Christian. If you don't keep the sabbath! If you don't... If you eat meat! If you do these things!" All these legal ideas. "And you've got to go to church. If you don't, you pay a penalty for it. You have to do a novena." That stuff is nonsense. You're saved by the grace of God, by the foreknowledge of God, by His predestination. God called Abraham by predestination, by foreknowledge. He called. He hated Esau, and loved Jacob, before either one was born. That's right. It's--it's God's foreknowledge that knows these things.

L-164   You say then, "What's the use of preaching the Gospel?"

L-165 Now I'll say to you, this. Paul answered that, or Jesus did, rather. Here is Jesus. He said, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto a man that went to this, a--a pond or a lake, and throwed in the net. He pulled in. Out of there, he had turtles. He had terrapins. He had serpents. He had lizards. He had frogs. He had spiders. He had scavengers. He had--he had fish." Now, the man just seining.

L-166 That's like the Gospel. Here it is now, I'm preaching the Gospel. I just throw the net out. I pull it, I say, "All that will, whosoever, let him come." Here come some up, the altar. They all hang around the altar. They pray. They cry. I don't know one from the other. It's not my business. I wasn't sent to judge.

L-167 But, there is some in there that's frogs. There is some that's lizards. There is some that's snakes. It's, some, is turtles. And there's some that's fish. It's not my business to judge. I say, "Father, here is what I pulled out."

L-168   But, the frog was a frog, to begin with.

L-169 The spider, the old spider will set there and look around, little while, roll them big eyes, look around, say, "You know what? I just about got as much of This as I can stand." Plop, plop, plop, plop, out they go.

L-170 Old lady serpent will raise her head up, and say, "Well, you know what? If they're going to preach like that, against wearing shorts and things, that takes me. So I'll get away from that bunch of holy-rollers. That's all it must been." You was a snake to start with. That's exactly right. Yeah.

L-171 And here sets old mister toad frog, with that great big cigar in his mouth, like a dehorned Texas steer, will stand there and look around, say, "Well, it never did condemn me to smoke. I'll just get out of this thing, right now." Well, you old frog, you was that, to begin with. That's exactly right. That's exactly right.

L-172 Your nature proves what you are. Your life shows, reflects what you are, and in the beginning. It's not hard for me to see that. It's not hard for you to see it.

L-173   If I went out to Roy Slaughter's the farmer setting here, and I saw the pigs out on manure pile, eating manure, I wouldn't think nothing bad about that. He's a pig. But if I saw a lamb up on that manure pile, I'd wonder. Uh-huh. See? Don't worry, you won't see him there. He just couldn't stand it. That's right.

L-174 And a man that's born of the Spirit of God hates the things of the world. That's right, "For if you love the world or the things of the world, the love of God is not even in you."


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