<TITLE>16. Par 124-129</TITLE>L-124 Now, remember, God predestinated you by foreknowledge, that you were coming to this. Everybody understand it, raise your hand. See? God, by foreknowledge, predestinated you to come to the promised land. What is the promised Land for the Christian today? Just raise up your hand if you know. "The promise is unto you and to your children, to them that are far off. And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, that I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh, your sons and your daughters." And in Isaiah 28:18, "Precept must be upon precept, line upon line; here a little, there a little; hold fast to that what's good. For with stammering lips and other tongues will I speak to this people. And this is the Rest, thi--the Rest, the sabbath land that I said that they should enter into. And, for all this, they would not hear, but they wagged their heads, and walked away, and wouldn't hear It." See? Exactly.

L-125 What was it? Just exactly like those people who had come all the way from Canaan--or from Egypt, all the way up through the wilderness, and got right next to, close enough to taste grapes that come out of the land. Brother, there... Them men want me to draw back that--that on Hebrews 6. How can I do it? Them's borderline believers; they'll never go over. They can't go over. Jesus said... They said, "Our fathers eat manna in the wilderness."
And Jesus said, "They're every one dead." That's just separated. They're every one dead. That's right. Said, "But I'm the Bread of Life that come from God out of heaven. The man that eats this Bread, he will never die. That's right. Yes, sir, he's got Eternal Life if he eats This. I'm that Tree of Life from the garden of Eden."

L-127 Now, see, these people come up so close... See, if you notice in Hebrews 6, not going back to that, but in Hebrews 6, "These people once made partakers, come so close, and have tasted of the heavenly gift." They set around; they seen healings done; they seen people in the power of God; they seen lives changed; but they won't put a hand on it. No, sir. No, sir. "And have tasted the power of the world to come; and if they should try to renew themselves again unto repentance, seeing that they--that they have crucified to themselves the Son of God afresh, and counted the Blood of the covenant wherewith they were sanctified with..."
"I belong to a church that believes in sanctification." That's good as far as it goes, but you don't go far enough. See? Yes, sir. The wilderness sanctified them. Yes, indeedy. They had the--they had the brazen serpent and the--the brazen altar, and everything out there, sanctification, but they entered into Palestine for rest. Didn't...

L-129 Look over in Hebrews 4, didn't he say another rest? God created the seventh day and gave them rest on the seventh day. Another place he spoke of rest saying, "today in David..." Then He give them another Rest, "Come unto Me all ye that labor and heavy laden, I will give you rest." Enter into this rest. For we which have entered into this rest have ceased from our works as God did from His on the sabbath. Certainly. There's your sabbath, rest. There's your real rest in this promised land.
The Holy Ghost is a promise of the people. And why will they want educated scholarly preachers who will let them wear shorts and cut their hair, and wear lipstick, and men to gamble and drink beer, and tell jokes, and go on, and carry on like that, and call themselves members of church. Why, they will take something like that and refuse the leadership of the Holy Ghost. Why, the Bible said the Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword that cuts you asunder of the bone, and even the Discerner of thoughts of the heart (Yes.), even the thoughts of the mind.


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