<TITLE>10. Par 597-604</TITLE>L-597   In the perfection, not eating meats, and doing this, and perfecting the body, you'll never have It. And you've got to quit this, and do this, and do this, and do this, that's law. That's legalists. We don't believe in the legal forms of salvation. We believe It that by grace are we saved. And it's not you. You have nothing to do with it. It's God's election that does it. "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him." That's right. And He... All Jesus come to do was to get these that the Father foreknew; and predestinated them before the foundation of the world. They become sons and daughters of God. Amen. "Not him that runneth, or him that willeth, but God that showeth mercy." God that does it. You can't brag, at all. There's not a thing that you did. God, by grace, saved you; not you, yourself. If you do, you got something to brag about. But you haven't nothing to brag. All praises goes to Him. It's Him. Then He's give you the sure hope, "Swore by an oath, the impossibility for His children to ever be lost."

L-598   Now, they get whippings for doing wrong. You reap what you sow. You get that. Don't think now you just going out and sin, get by with it. If you do, and got that attitude, it shows you've never been born again. You get it? If you still got the desire in you, to do the wrong, then you're still wrong. See? "For He has perfected, forever, those that is... And those beasts under the Old Testament, under legal days, offered yearly, continually, could never take away sin." But when we put our hands upon His head, and confess our sins and are born again of the Spirit of God, we have no more desire of sin. Sin has passed from you. That's for time and Eternity.

L-599   You'll make mistakes. You'll fall. You'll willfully do wrong. You'll go out sometime and do things. That don't mean that you're lost. That means that you're going to get correction.

L-600 My little boy, lots of times, my children, will do things. Your does, too. That you... They know that's against your--your rules. And they know what to expect when they do it. They're going to get a whipping for it, sometimes a good one. But it's still your child. Certainly.

L-601 It's impossible for that man to ever be gone again, that's once been born of Eternal Life. God is not an Indian giver. "He that heareth My Words, and believeth on Him that sent Me, has everlasting Life; and shall never come to the judgment, but is passed from death unto Life. I'll raise him up at the last days." That's God's promise.

L-602   Now if you go on, say, "Oh, well, then I can do just..." I always do what I want to do. But if you're a Christian, you don't want to do the thing that's wrong, 'cause the very Life in you, the very foundation. If you want to do wrong, it shows the wrong thing is in here. "How can bitter and sweet water come from the same fountain?"

L-603 So you been all mixed up, on some kind of emotion or fabulous something, another sensation. Forget it. Go back to the altar and say, "God, take my old sinful life away, and put me in such a condition that my whole desire..."
"He that's born of God does not commit sin." That's right. He has no desire to do so.

L-604   Certainly, the Devil will trap him here and there, but not willfully. The Bible said so. The Devil will trap him, now and then. Sure, he will. He tried to throw a traps for our Lord Jesus. He did to Moses, and caught him. He did to Peter, and caught him. He did to many. But Peter even denied Him, but then he went and wept bitterly. There was something in him.


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