<TITLE>17. Par -</TITLE>L-284-458 When you go to eating... I asked the doctor that, not long ago. I said, "Why is it when I was sixteen years old... Every time I eat, I renew my life?"
Said, "That's right."
You take in new--new cells every time you make... The--the flesh make... Or the food makes blood cells, and that blood cell makes you get stronger. That's how you live. Then something has to die every time, for you to live. Every day something dies: if you eat meat, the cow died; or whatever you eat; and the fish died; or the--or the wheat died and made the bread; the potato died, that made the potato; and the... Every form of life, you can only live through dead substance.
And you can only live eternally because something died: Jesus, Not because you joined church, not because you were baptized, not because you professed Christianity; because you accepted the Life of Jesus Christ that was bled--the Blood that was shed for you, and you accept Him as your personal Saviour.

L-284-462 Now, notice; I ask this. I want to ask you this. Look at this; it's beautiful. Maybe I've taught on it before (I don't know.) here; preaching everywhere, you forget what you said at one--certain places. But why is it then...
Now, I guess, Sister Smith... I don't know whether I knew Brother Fleeman that far back or not. And Tryphena, I remember her when she was a little girl. You remember me when I used to be--was a little, short, heavyset, black, wavy hair. I used to box. Oh, I thought I was a stylish man in the world. "Oh," I thought, "there's nobody could whip me. No, sir." But I--I got fooled on that. You see? But I... I--I just thought, "Oh, my." I thought, "If you could put this thing on my back, I'd walk down the street with it." Sure, nothing bothered me. And every time I eat, I got bigger and stronger all the time. Every time I'd put new life in... I eat cabbage, potatoes, and beans, and meat, just like I do today. And I got stronger and bigger all the time. And when I got to be about twenty-five...

L-285-464 I--I eat better now than I did then; you all know me, know that. I can eat better now, all of us are. But why is it, Brother Egan, then, if I am still eating better food, more of it, better vitamins and everything... And the more I eat, I gradually dwindle away. And now, I'm coming an old stoop-shouldered man, baldheaded, and turning gray, and hands wrinkling, and face pitch in, shoulders going down, of a morning it's hard to get up, and... Oh, my. Why is it? If I renew my life every time I eat, why is it then?
If I'm pouring water out of a jug into a glass, and it gets half full, and then starts going down all the time instead of coming up; and more I pour in, faster it goes down. There you are. And you couldn't prove it scientifically if you had to. This Book's the only thing to prove it; God has appointed; it's an appointment. God seen us coming.

L-285-466 You older men, and you older women, maybe some of your--your husbands and your wives maybe gone on. That doesn't--that doesn't bother anything. Hallelujah. They're just across the curtain yonder, waiting: absolutely. And they're longing to be with you again. That's right. Certainly, they are. They're longing to be together again. The Bible said they are, the souls under the altar crying, "Lord, how long?" See? They're not in their right state.
God never made us Angels; He made us men and women. We'll always be men and women, because we are a product of God's own intelligence. We can always be men and women.


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