<TITLE>08. Par 54-61</TITLE>L-54 God to show His power, to show what He was, that He was a Saviour, He permitted a sinner to be here.
As I've said, how will the Angels sing the redemption stories when they don't even know what redemption means? But we could sing it; we know what it means to be lost, what it means to be found. If you never was lost, you don't know what it means to be found. It's those who are lost knows what it means. It's those who've had sickness that knows how to enjoy good health when it comes. It's that vile person that walked the streets yonder that never had a friend, and never had no one to put their arms around, and never had nobody to even look at them and consider them; it's that person that knows what a real friend means to put an arm around. Sure, you have to know.
How would we ever knowed how to appreciate the sunshine if there hadn't have been a night? How would you knowed to appreciate a pretty bright day if there'd never been a cloudy one? How would you know to appreciate the warm sunshine of the summer if there hadn't have been a winter? The law, pro and con... I'm getting off to preaching; I don't mean to do that. All right.

L-57 Revelations 17:8, where we just for a minute now to show... Now, the Lamb was slain when? Before the foundation of the world. All right. Revelations 17:8.
And the beast which thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and shall go into perdition: and they that dwell upon the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from... (The Book of Life from when?)... the foundation of the world,...
When was your name put in the Book of Life? As I said last night, the man that wrote the song, "There's a new name written down in glory, and it's mine, it's mine," meaningly he was right, but Scripturally he was wrong. Your name was not written the night you come to Christ. Jesus said, "All the Father has given to Me will come to Me. And no man can come except My Father draws him. All that comes to Me I'll give them Eternal Life and raise him up at the last day. There's none of them lost. I lose nothing, 'cause no man can pluck them out of My Father's hand Who gave them to Me." Oh, my. St. John 5:24, "He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me has Eternal Life and shall never come to the judgment, but's passed from death unto Life." That's why this church believes in the security of the--the perseverance of the saints, not in the Baptist form, not in the Presbyterian form, but in the Bible form.

L-59 "Well," you say, "now, Brother Branham, I guess once in grace always in grace." That brings a lot of disgrace. But when a man or a woman has been borned of the Spirit of God, old things have passed away, all things have become new, and he's been birthed and blessed by the Eternal God. And they can no more perish than God Himself can perish.
Do you mean to tell me that a God, a infinite God, would come down and give you Eternal Life, knowing that He was going to lose you, save you here knowing He's going to lose you there? What did He save you for? Why, He's working against Himself. If He saved you once, you are saved for all eternity. There's no demons in hell could upset you.

L-61 Now, the infinite God Who could tell the end from the beginning and then saved you here this week and knowing next year you're going to backslide and lose you... Well, what's He doing a work like that for? That would be foolish; I wouldn't do that. If I made you my friend today, knowing you was going to be my enemy tomorrow, well, I wouldn't do it; I'd just let you alone. See? God makes you His servant today, because He knows and knowed before you ever come on the earth when He was making the calcium that went in your body, when He created the cosmic light that you--that's in you, when the petroleums, and all that you're made up of, when God created it on the earth He knew every fiber of you and what you'd do. How can the infinite God...


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