<TITLE>08. Par 45-52</TITLE>L-45 Yesterday morning we were lying in bed a little late, and the children didn't have to go to school, and we got to speaking about different things, and how, "What was hatred?"
I said, "Hatred had a beginning so it has to have an end. Love had no beginning, so it has no end. Hatred is forever. Love is eternal. Hatred begins and hatred will end. Love never did begin and it never will end (See?); it's eternal.
And when a man loves a woman and marries her because she's just pretty, there'll be an end to that. But when a man finds a woman that he loves, he don't know why, but he loves her... And she finds the man that she loves, no matter what he looks like... He loves her. She loves him. That's an eternal mate in glory. They'll... Death nor nothing else can ever separate them. Because they are from eternity, and they stepped out into space of time, and will return back to eternity. Eternity has dropped down in a body called time, then it goes right back up into eternity again. It cannot perish.

L-48 A woman that's beautiful, that beauty will fade just as sure... You give it a few years. Maybe today she's twisting down the street, some little half-dressed woman sending more souls to hell than all the barrooms in the country. But she'll twist herself down the street thinking she's something, as the Bible said, "They'd have stretched out necks, walking, mincing (that means twisting) as they go in the last days." Fulfilling the Scriptures and doesn't know it, just stand in the yard with immoral clothes on, men looking at her, and don't know... She may be as virtuous to her husband or boyfriend as she can be. But at the day of the judgment, she'll answer for committing adultery with hundreds of men. A spirit on them and they don't know it. The Bible said, "Naked, blind, and don't know it." The miserable part is, "Don't know it."
But did you know that well formed little figure that God has given that girl, may be rotten by this time next Sunday? That tall, dark and handsome man may be nothing but just a pile of rubbish by next Sunday? That all perishes. But that on the inside, God, love, lives for eternity. So watch the inside. Keep your eyes on the goal.

L-50 Now, this story starts out something on that manner, as a lovable, sweet woman; her name was Naomi. "Naomi" means "pleasant." "Elimelech" was her husband, means "worship." Pleasant worship was her family. They had a son "Mahlon," one--that means "sickness." And "Chilion," the other meant "weary, gloomy, sadness." There was the family.
And they come a famine in the land of Israel. And the first mistake a Jew ever makes is leave that land. God gave them that land. When Abraham was given that land, God told him not to leave that land. And he made a mistake when he went down into Gerar, got in trouble. A Jew is never to leave Palestine. That's his 'lotted place. And they have been drove out all over the world, and now they are returning back again.

L-52 Oh, it's such a beautiful story we have here this morning. They are returning back.
Naomi was driven out because of a famine, Naomi and Elimelech, and they went over into Moab.
Now, to get the back of the story, so you, as you listen you'll be able to grasp what it is... Now, the Moab, the Moabites, originated from a illegitimate child, which was Lot's daughters. After they had escaped the fires of Sodom, by the grace of God, then the daughters got the father drunk and lived with him as a wife. They brought forth a child, and one of them was--originated and brought in the--the nation of Moab, supposingly to have been Christians, but were mixed in paganism.
And see, leaving the promised land, no matter how bad it was, to sojourn over in another land, brought trouble.


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