<TITLE>06. Par 20-24</TITLE>L-20 Well, that's the way it is with us. We're imperfect, no good, borned in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies. We're no good to begin with. But God don't look at you; He looks at the sacrifice. He looks at the Lamb. He doesn't see you, because He sees Christ. Jesus died for you. Now, if you can find some fault with Jesus, then your healing might not be right. But if you don't find no fault with Him, it's perfect. Sure.
God called you by His grace, not that you would, but if God would. The Scripture said He was the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. That was God's Word. When God speaks, it's as good as finished right then.
So how you going to stamp out the baptism of the Holy Ghost? How you going to stamp out the gifts? How you going to stamp out the Church? You can't do it. God spoke it, and it's going to be. That settles it. Certainly. It'll materialize somewhere.

L-21 Then when God foresaw by His foreknowledge how He would redeem the world of sin and corruption, He slayed Christ before the foundation of the world when He spoke the Word, four thousand years before it was manifested.
Now, the Book of Revelations said, "When the antichrist comes upon the earth, he will deceive all--'all' upon the earth whose names were not written in the Lamb's Book of Life from (the last revival. No, no.)--from the foundation of the world." God, by foreknowledge, knew you, and called you in Christ, and put your name on the Lamb's Book of Life before the foundation of the world.

L-22 What are you scared about? Are you afraid to take His Word for anything? Don't be afraid. Call the thing right. "I am an heir to this. Oh, I know I don't deserve it, but I'm an heir anyhow. Because I'm an heir, I receive it." Amen. That's it. There you are. "Because I am an heir..." That's it. We're heir of salvation, heir of the Holy Spirit. I'm an heir, because Jesus paid the price. Nothing I had to do, I just fell heir to it. Amen. I'm healed, because I'm an heir to it. My diseases are gone; my afflictions is gone. Why? Because I'm an heir to it.
Oh, perfect assurance. Jesus is mine. Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine. Heir of salvation, purchased of God, borned of His Spirit, washed in His Blood. That's our story.
Oh, then Satan can't stand that (See?), because he's a defeated being; he's nothing but a bluff. Jesus paid the price, called us by His grace; we're heir. What a perfect set-up that is. See, he's already defeated. I never defeated him; Christ defeated him. I'm just claiming my own God given privileges. That's all you do. You just tell Satan, "Get away from here. I've got an abstract deed on this building. It's mine. I heired it."

L-23 Notice. Abraham. He was just an ordinary man, come down from the tower of Babel with his father, and they settled down in the--probably was up in the land of the Shinar, come on down into the city of Ur in the land of the Chaldeans. He was just an ordinary man, not nothing--not no saint, no god. He's just an ordinary man...?... Just an ordinary man, nothing about him any different than any one else, no more than there is you, just an ordinary person. But God saw something in him, and He called him. God seen the same thing in every borned again man and woman here. Now, Abraham wasn't afraid to put his to work, are you? The same faith that He gave Abraham, He gives it to you freely, if you'll use it.

L-24 Say I have a gun. It'll shoot. It's a good true shooting gun. I hang it up on the wall. I say, "Yeah, oh sure, I got a gun."
"What do you do with it?"
"It hangs on the wall."
That's faith. People say, "Oh, I'm a Christian. Oh, I believe God can." But what do you do about it? Put it to work. Turn it loose. Do something with it. Get out and hunt up the devil where he says, "You still hurting." Say, "You're a liar." Pull a bead on him. Get him in the scope. Don't be afraid to pull the trigger, 'cause it'll go off as sure as anything. Yes, sir. It'll boomerang on him. So hold on.


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