<TITLE>18. Par 168-175</TITLE>L-168 Now, sons and daughters... Who has the most power before God? What is an angel? An "angel's" "a servant." Is that right? They're His servants. What are you? His son and daughter. Who has the most power in heaven then? A sinner that's been saved by grace, or an Archangel that's standing by His right side? The sinner that's been saved by grace has more authority in heaven than the Archangel that's stood by His side without sin. Because He's a son. A son has more authority than the servant, of course.
Oh, we forget what we are. We forget many times what made us what we are. After we become what we are, then we forgot how we got here. When God Himself...
Oh, what precious love that Father
Gave to Adam's fallen race;
Gave His only Son to suffer
And redeem us by His grace. (Oh, how we ever know?)
Mid rendering rocks and darkening skies
My Saviour bows His head and died;
The opening veil revealed the way,
To heaven's joy and endless day.
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
All other grounds are sinking sand.
When I survey the wondrous cross,
Where on the Prince of glory died,
I count all my sin to be but loss,
(That's right.) One said:
Living, He loved me; dying, He saved me;
Buried, He carried my sins far away;
Rising, He justified freely forever:
Someday He's coming--Oh, glorious day.

L-170 It's been the theme of the church. It's been its outlook. It's been its heart. This earth's bathed with the Blood of this Kinsman Redeemer to redeem Adam's fallen race.
Notice, here He is a Kinsman Redeemer. Now, the first thing: He had to be a worthy man. Who was any more worthy than Christ, than Jesus? Then another thing: He had to have the money. He had to be able to do it. He owned the heavens. He proved He did. He could take five loaves of bread and two fish, and feed five thousand, take up five basketfuls of fragments afterward. He could pump water out of a well and turn it into wine. He could take a fish out of the ocean and take coins out of his mouth of gold. Amen.
He wasn't a... But He become poor, not a place to lay His head. He become a Kinsman, not a Kinsman to the rich, a Kinsman to all men. He took the place of a Redeemer.

L-173 Then what did he have to do? Then he had to make a public testimony. The next morning, Ruth said--or Naomi said, "Rest, Ruth, everything will be all right now, because you've found grace in his sight."
God, let me do that. Let me find grace in His sight. Then when morning breaks...
When the trumpet of the Lord shall sound, and time shall be no more,
And the morning breaks, eternal, bright and fair;
When the saved on earth shall gather over on the other shore,
When the roll is called up yonder, I'll be there.
 (Resting now, waiting for the full redemption.)

L-175 Notice: "I have it, the--the earnest of it now. I've took home a whole scarf full of barley. I got there..." He gave it to her, measured it out, six measures. Six meant the six thousand years of existence of the world. Man's day is six. Man was created on the sixth day. There'll be six thousand years that the world was created, and the seventh thousand God rested. Six thousand years the church will labor against sin with the power of God of these barley loaves and then go into the eternal rest. That's rest, wait. Six measures of fine barley he put in there to carry her over till the time of full redemption. I'm so glad to enjoy it.


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