<TITLE>03. Par 10-13</TITLE>L-10 And it is very striking to see how that man wants to be one. The reason that he wants to be one is because that God designed him for that purpose. God designed man, made him up to be one, to work together, to cooperate together. That's the makeup of man. That's the way God made him.
But man always wants to have his idea about it. He wants to project something that God never intended him to do. He wants to figure his own ways out. He wants to make his own plans. He won't accept the plan that God made for him, because it's his fallen nature.
God told him in the garden of Eden that the very minute that he even touched that tree that trouble was in the road. But man taken from that tree, and he become a scientific worker. And the very first bite that he took, he separated himself from his Saviour, or his Creator.
And so is it tonight that man still lives by that tree. And there's no way in the world for a man to be saved by that tree. And why do we put so much emphasis on scientific research, how to save ourselves, to make a bomb that's better than Russia's, to make a plane that can fly faster. Trying to save ourselves.

L-11 Knowledge will never save you. It takes you farther away from God all the time. There's only one way of salvation. That's back to the Tree of Life. Knowledge even isn't--even isn't in the picture. It's back to the Tree of Life.
There was two trees; one was knowledge; the other was Life. As long as the man eat from this tree he lived. When he bit from that tree he died.
But you see, it's his nature to try to do something to save hisself. There's not one thing that you could do to save yourself.
Man said to me one time; he said, "Oh, I sought God and I sought God."
I listened at him for a few moments, and I said, "Sir, I don't want to disagree with you, but I have to. You never did seek God." And no man never did. It isn't man seeking God; it's God seeking man.
It wasn't God going up-and-down the garden saying, "Adam, Adam where art thou?"
It wasn't man going up and down the garden saying, "God, God, where art Thou?" It was God calling Adam.

L-12 And God said in His Word, "No man can come to Me, except My Father draws him first." You're seeking to find what's drawing you, but it's God has to draw first. The Scripture says that, and how true it is.
But we find out here that they have united under one great leader. And when you get man under leadership of man, then he gets some ideas of his own, trying to achieve something that he can design or do himself.
And Nimrod had built them a tower. And it's very strange to think that how that all the things that the devil has, he stole the copyright from God to make it. Satan cannot create. Satan is no creator; he's a perverter of something God created.

L-13 That's the reason that there is no one that knows his Bible or knows God, that would say that the devil can heal. Healing is creation. And if the devil can create, he could create himself a world and some people. But he cannot create; he perverts what God has created.
What is unrighteousness? It's righteousness perverted. Everything that you see that's wrong, just do opposite and you'll be right, for unrighteousness is righteousness perverted. Then you've got the right two.
And remember, that anything that man does that's outside the plan of God, it's perverted. No matter how good it looks, it's still perverted, because God's got His original idea, and He gave it to man, and man wants to make something of his own self. He wants to have something to do into it.
Israel made it's greatest mistake in the 19th chapter of Exodus. After grace had provided a sacrifice, grace had provided a saviour, Moses, grace had provided a deliverance, and yet they wanted something to do themselves. "Give us the law." And they never did keep it, and they couldn't keep it. But it's all falls back to it's God Who does all good things.


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