<TITLE>04. Par 20-25</TITLE>L-20 And He's only asked us one thing: to believe that what He said is the Truth, and He'll bring it to pass. Oh, how beautiful. You expected a spontaneous thing to happen; sometimes it just takes a little bit of faith. It won't make a miracle, but if you'll hold on to it, it'll bring you out; just stay right with it. Like He said, "The seed of a mustard, the smallest among all seeds..." But did you ever notice, mustard won't mix with nothing. You can't cross mustard up with anything; it won't cross. And if you got faith, just a little bit of faith that won't cross up with any unbelief or any churchanity or dogmas, just stay right with God, just stay right with it, it'll bring you right on through the fog, take you right out. Yeah. Just stay with that faith.

L-21 Now, the beginning, when God... The Bible said in Revelations that the antichrist, in the last days... Now, look at these churches all getting together. The antichrist in the last days would deceive all that was on the earth who's names were not written in the Lamb's Book of Life from the foundation of the world. When was your name put on the Book of Life? The... Before we ever had a world you were chosen to receive the Holy Ghost in this age.
I've joined with Eddie Perronet.
I've anchored my soul in the haven of rest,
To sail the wild diving seas no more;
The tempest may sweep o'er the wild, stormy deep,
But in Jesus we're safe evermore.

L-23 There's nothing can separate us. God cannot--don't go back on His Word. And if He's infinite, and gives you the Holy Spirit here, knowing that He's going to lose you down here, what kind of a business does He run? If you're not deceived in your experience, if you got the Holy Spirit... But watch what the Bible said, Ephesians 4:30, "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed until..." The next revival? Does that sound right? "You're sealed until the day of your redemption." How long? Until your redemption.
You take a boxcar; you load it on the track, and when it's perfectly loaded... Now, they can't close that car yet; the inspector has to come by. And he inspects and see if anything's loose that'll shake. The box may be... The boxcar may be fully loaded, but if it's got loose places in it, he has to pack it over again. And that's what's the matter, a lot of us don't get the Holy Ghost; when the Inspector comes by, He finds a lot of loose places (You see?), so He won't seal it yet.

L-25 Great theologian came to me the other day, or not the other day, it's been three or four years ago, and he said, "I want to ask you something." Said, "Abraham believed God and it was imputed unto him for righteousness."
I said, "That is true, right."
Said, "What more could the man do but believe?"
I said, "That's all he could do."
He said, "Then where do you go with this Holy Ghost stuff outside of that?" Now, you know he was a Baptist. And he said--he said, "Where do you go with this Holy Ghost?" Said, "If the man believes, the minute you believe, you have received the Holy Ghost."
I said, "No, no. Now, you--you make a contradiction in the Scriptures, and Scriptures don't contradict themself. See? Paul asked them, 'Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?'"
And he said, "Well..."
I said, "It's true that Abraham the father of the faith gave--he had the promise of God and believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness, but He gave him the seal of circumcision as a sign that He had received his faith."


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