<TITLE>07. Par -</TITLE>L-476-38 You remember that the--the... Jesus said in His sermon that when you pray, "Our Father Who art in heaven,"... And when He come down, He said, "If you don't from your heart forgive every man his trespasses, neither does your heavenly Father forgive you your trespasses." See? You mustn't do that.
But now, where the devil creates a power of hatred (See?) to run out on the platform to kill me, which he, physically he was more than able, many times more... He could've held me up, perhaps in his two fingers right up by the belt like that, because he weighed 260 or 270, was better than six foot and a half or seven foot tall, great big fellow. And just... He'd just hit a preacher down the street with his fist, broke his collar bone and jaw, and injured him, and put him in a hospital. He just hated preachers. And then he just run right up there to kill me. See?

L-476-40 Now, in that man was some of these spirits that was cast out of the swine in Gadara. Some of those poor people are out here in the insane institution beating their heads against padded bars, cells. Remember, devils never die. Devils always live, but there will be a time where devils will have to die. They will become totally annihilated. But now they are alive, and they work from generation to generation upon human beings. Some of them is in the form of cancer; some is in the form of epilepsy; some is in the form of tuberculosis. They get into the flesh, but seemingly they are powerless until they can get into a person. They have to operate through a person, which brings to another thought, that the Holy Spirit is--covers the earth but It is almost helpless until It gets into you and to me.
God is depending on you and I. See? The Holy Spirit... The earth is full of the Spirit of God, but It's poured out. But It--It cannot operate until It comes into us, we human beings, to operate.

L-477-42 And the devil wants to take us over to operate under him. So when he gets the mild form, he starts in sin. If he can hold them just in a righteous man, a good man, and just let him go ahead and try to be good like that; if he can hold him like that until he's dead, that's just what he wants to do. He's got him, because no matter how righteous you are, how good you are, how moral you are, how clean you are, how honest you are, you'll never get to heaven until you're borned again. Jesus said so. So there's no... It... You've got to be borned; you've got to be regenerated, or there's not a way in the world for you to ever enter heaven, or ever--or ever come to Christ.
Now, I said a few moments ago, which may rise into your thinking another question, that I--that I've taught, and that is on--on... That I do not believe that there is an eternal... I don't believe the Bible teaches an eternal burning hell. It doesn't. Because if hell is eternal and people that go there will be punished eternally, the only way they could be eternally punished, they'd have to have Eternal Life. And there's only one form of Eternal Life, and that's in God. See? So they have to come to annihilation (See?); that is, their physical part becomes annihilated, and then their spiritual part becomes annihilated. That's completely consumed; there's no more to it. "Neither root nor branch," the Bible calls it. They are completely done away.


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