<TITLE>09. Par 46-50</TITLE>L-46 So then, if the father brought word and the son, the children was not progressing... That son always was a son, certainly. But he never had anything to do in the father's kingdom. He never had any position.
But if he was a good son, and he was a smart boy, and he was interested in the father's business, how good the tutor must have felt to go to the father and say, "Oh, my. You got one of the finest boys. Why, he just sees something to be done; he goes and does it. And he--he's smart. He knows how to do it. He seeks wisdom. And oh, he's just you made over." How the father must feel. That was fine.

L-47 So when the son became at age, where Pentecost ought to be tonight, of age... If you're not going to be of age at forty, you'll never be of any age.
And then, when he come to the place of coming of age, the father seen the son had progressed, and he was a worthy boy, everything he did was right and he was right up with the father's business, he wanted everything just right for the father, and he had no selfish motives, then the father taken that son out into a public place. (You ministers, the placing of a son...) And the father taken the very son that was born in his family and adopted his own son. That's what Ephesians said. We're adopted, predestinated to the adoptions of sons by the--by Christ.

L-48 Now, the son that was his son... In other words, he adopted him, by this may, he placed his son positionally. How did he do it? Then that son's name on the check was just as good as the father's, because he was in position. The father had vindicated, had placed that son in position. And I hope you're getting this.
And then that son was an heir of what the father had. And we are, what God has, we're joint heirs with Christ, if we are sons of God, positionally placed in the Kingdom, holding our places.
Now, God has many places He could place you. Some are apostles, some prophets, teachers, evangelists, pastors, so forth. God positionally places this son.

L-49 Now, God didn't ask men to do anything that He didn't do Himself. So He goes up on the mountain, taken a witness of earth and a witness of heaven. And He took His own beloved Son and stood Him out before the witness of the earth and the witnesses of heaven, and glorified Him. And His raiment shined like the sun.
That's that royal robe, that the father in the Old Testament, placed on his son, and stood before the crowd, and adopted, or placed his son positionally over everything he had.
And God took His Son, with witnesses of heaven, and witnesses of earth, and on Mount Transfiguration, placed Him and overshadowed Him. And He said, "This is My beloved Son. Hear ye Him."
Peter got all excited, like we do lots of times. He said, "Lord, You know, this is a good religious ground that we're standing on. You know what we ought to do? We ought to build a tabernacle here for Moses. All them that wants to keep the law, they can belong to that denomination. And we ought to build a tabernacle for Elijah. And all that wants that can--that denomination can go to it. And then, we'll build one for You. And all that wants to go to You..."
God said, "Away with such stuff. This is My beloved Son. Hear ye Him."

L-50 I'm so glad He said that. Let's look at Moses. What did Moses represent? He represented the law. By the law nobody's saved. The Bible said you can't be saved by the law. You're saved by grace through the foreknowledge of God. God by foreknowledge saved you before the foundation of the world. You're saved by grace.
Someone said, "I just sought God and sought God." Brother, you didn't. No man ever sought God at any time. God seeks man, not man seeking God.
In the garden of Eden, it should been Adam going up and down the garden, saying, "Father, where art Thou?"
It was God saying, "Adam, where art thou?" That's His nature.


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