<TITLE>08. Par 574-584</TITLE>L-574 The Holy Spirit is God. God is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, patience. That's the Spirit of God. That's what God raises up in the last days, through that Spirit.

L-575   Now, "Not willing..."
... God, more willing abundantly to show unto the heirs of the promise...
... God, more willing... to show... the heirs...
Who is the heirs? "We, being dead in Christ, take on Abraham's Seed, and are heirs." Oh, does that soak in? We are heirs of the Kingdom of God, through a sworn promise. God didn't have to swear. His Word is perfect. But He swore, too, by Himself, for there was no one greater.

L-576 As we read on, just a moment, listen.
... the promise of immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:

L-577   "Immutability," the unchangeable. God cannot change. He has to remain the same. And if God healed one sick person, He can never change His attitude. God forgive one sinner, one prostitute, He can never change His attitude. The immutability, the unchanging of God's Word. God said, in one place, "I'm the Lord who heals all thy diseases." He has to stay with It, for He's infinite. He knowed to the end from the beginning.

L-578 Now, I can say, "I'll do this." And the Bible said, we ought to say, "If the Lord is willing." Because, I'm a mortal. I don't know. Sometimes I have to take my word back, but God can't take His back. He is God.

L-579 And He only requested one thing, "If thou canst believe." Oh, my! "If you can believe, all things are possible." "If thou canst believe," that's all. "You, if you can," there's the question. But not the question is on God's Word, because, His immutability, He cannot change. How wonderful!

L-580   Now listen, as we read on down.
That by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie,...
Impossible! An impossibility and immutability is practically the same word; can't change, can't move. It has to stay the same forever. Can't be changed, the immutability and the impossibility.
And two, by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie,...
"We have two things?" Yes. First, His Word said He would do it. The second was His sworn oath on it, He would do it. Oh, my!

L-581 What type of people should we be? Why should we be tossed about and run about, and taking the things of the world and acting like this 1957 streamlined-model Christianity? We want to be the old-fashioned type that takes God at His Word, and calls those things which were not, as though they were. "If God said so, That settles it."

L-582   Abraham, who the promise was given, to him and his Seed, he called the things which were not, as though they were. For, It was God's promise, knowing that God could not lie. He promised him that, and he believed It. And as the years passed by, and the promise seemed to get further away, to the natural eye, It become closer to Abraham.

L-583 Instead of being weak, and say, "'Well, maybe there is no such a thing as Divine healing. Maybe I mis-spoke. Maybe there is no such a thing. Maybe I been wrong in all my conceptions." Then, that shows one thing, that you haven't been born again. "For it's..."

L-584   We got through last Sunday, just a little further back in the chapter. "For it is impossible for a man that's once tasted the Heavenly gifts and things, to fall away, again to renew himself to repentance." Absolutely, totally impossible!
For he that is born of God does not and cannot commit sin; for the seed of God remains in him: and he cannot sin,...
The Seed of God is the Word of God. "Faith cometh by hearing, hearing the Word, 'The Sacrifice was made. It's all over.'"


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