<TITLE>20. Par -</TITLE>L-495-119 Oh, my. Wouldn't you like to set in on some of that? Well, we are. Sure. Same Holy Spirit. He said now, as you're setting together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, God has blessed us with all spiritual blessings, Sister Rose. I believe that that's... I--I couldn't think of your name the other day. I believe you were in a prayer line or something. I--I remember trying to think of it later, and I--but your name is Rose Austin, isn't that right? I re... You used to come here at the tabernacle all the time. That's it. All right. Now:
Blessed be the--the God of our Father of... Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings--all spirit--in heavenly places... (Let's see if I'm reading that--quoting that right.) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: (Assembled together now in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.)
According as he... (Now, listen. Are you all ready?)... According as he has chosen us in him before... (I preached to you.)... before the foundation of the world,...

L-496-120 Now, see, he can talk to the Church. He wouldn't say that to babies, but he's talking to a Church that's already in Christ. Now, he couldn't go out here to just some church and say, "Well now..."--that. It's those elected Ones that's in Christ.
Now, you say, "Well, I believe that I'm in Christ." If you are, you've received the Holy Ghost, because that's the only way that you can get into Christ. I Corinthians 12:13 (See?)--I Corinthians the 12th chapter... All right. "For by one Spirit we are all baptized into one Body (which is the Body of Christ)." Now. Then we set together in heavenly places in one accord. Uhm. Holy Spirit moving among us, teaching us, showing us great things, bringing things to pass. Oh what a place.
He said, "Now, you that's been called like that, I want to speak to you, you, the chosen ones that God chose us in Him before the foundation of the world; think of that. God chose us in Him before the foundation of the world.
God knew before the foundation of the world that I'd speak this same subject tonight. He's infinite. And before there was a world... Oh. Whew. Get--get the Holy Ghost now. The Word will bring It. See? That's how It come: "While Peter spake these words the Holy Ghost fell on them."

L-496-123 Before there was a world you were in God's thoughts to give you the Holy Ghost, because He knew that you'd be wanting It; and He chose you Himself because you desired... He chose you in Christ before you or Jesus, any of you, was on the earth. And He sent Jesus to die to prepare the way to send the Holy Ghost, to bring you to Himself. Oh, that's just... I know I may... This is the church, so I'm at home now. See? Oh, that is so rich to me. To think it's not what I wanted; it wasn't my desires; it wasn't my will; it wasn't my choosing; I had not one thing to do with it. But before the world ever started, God saw us and put our name on the Lamb's Book of Life before there even was a world. Talk about God. Whew.

L-497-124 I stood out yonder where that big glass... You can see a hundred and twenty million years of light space. When I looked and seen that (I didn't get to see through the glass, but I seen the picture where they took it.)--and I just had to raise up my hands in there in that place, and I said, "How great Thou art, how great Thou art." And before one of those planets ever turned (Hallelujah.), God chose us in Jesus Christ. Now, how great Thou art. Yes, sir.
Before there was a world, before there was a planet, before there was a sun, before there was a moon, before there was light, before there was anything, when it was still God, God and His thoughts, the eternal thoughts of God chose you by predestination, by foreknowledge, to know that you would be on the earth, to know there would be sin.


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