<TITLE>05. Par 16-19</TITLE>L-16 Now look. You say, "Does that apply to me?" Certainly. Many people say, "Oh, I've sought God, and I sought God, and I sought God..." That's an error. God sought you, not you seeking God.
It wasn't Adam running up-and-down through the Garden hollering, "Father, Father, where art Thou?"
It was God screaming, "Adam, Adam, where art thou." See, he reflected then what all man was, a fighter. Instead of man coming right out and confessing his wrong, and being honest before God, man tries to hide back behind some kind of a fig leaf affair. It's still the nature of man to do that. It's just in him to do it. Instead of just confessing, and saying, "I'm wrong. God, You help me," or just taking God at His Word, he will try to find some way to bypass it. Ministers today, many of them try to find a way to bypass Divine healing, try to bypass the baptism of the Holy Spirit. There's no way to bypass it. People go right on receiving It just the same. You're going to receive It anyhow, because It's a promise of God.

L-17 Now, Jesus said, and we wouldn't argue with Him. Jesus said, "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him first." Then, it was God knocking at your heart, not you seeking God; it was God seeking you. So you see, the covenant is to you also, a grace covenant, because it's God's grace calling you. God has. He... You never chose Him; He chose you. Out of the millions in the world today, He reached down and chose you, because He put your name on the Lamb's Book of Life before the foundation of the world. That's what the Bible said. Before there was a world, Jesus was the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Because when God speaks anything, it's so perfect, it has to take and--place, and it's as good as done when God speaks it. Amen.

L-18 The trouble, the church is scared. "Oh, I'm afraid of this." Don't be afraid. You say, "Oh, if I can just..." It--it isn't you; it's Him. "I--I'm not worthy of healing." Sure you're not. I'm not. Nobody's not. But He's the one. It isn't our worthiness; it's His goodness to us...?... save.

L-19 In the old covenant, what if a little mule would be borned out in a pasture some night. I don't know whether you ever farmed any or not, but this mule was born with flopped ear. That's a horrible mule to begin with. And he's knock-kneed. And he's cross-eyed. His tail sticks right straight up. What a horrible looking mule. Now, if he could look around to his mammy, he'd say, "You know what? As soon as the master of the house comes out, he will knock me in the head. I'm not even worth eat--of the food I eat. I'm no good."
But if his mammy was really instructed, she'd say, "Wait a minute, son. Just a minute. I'm going to tell you something you don't know." That's what I want to tell you. See? "You don't know who you are, son. You see, you are borned under a birthright. And when the master of the house... I don't care what you look like; when the master of the house comes out to see he's got a--a new mule born, then the thing he has to do is go get a lamb without a blemish, and take that perfect lamb... And that perfect lamb dies so you can live." Then the little mule can kick up his heels and have a big time.


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