<TITLE>28. Par 239-245</TITLE>L-239 7th verse, and then we're closing; this is the last of the church age. Now, we'll be about five minutes late, or ten, just a minute.
He that has an ear, let Him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
Now, look, friends; here's the way you overcome. First you have to overcome, then you can eat the fruit. It's the overcomer. You remember the other night, our teaching last night? John had to get in the Spirit before he saw anything. And how you going set, saying, "If he's not Baptist, I ain't going to listen to him"? "If he ain't Presbyterian, I ain't going to listen to him. If he don't teach just exactly what my church teaches, I..." You--you--you ain't going to overcome; you ain't got in the Spirit yet. You're all out of order.
Get in the Spirit and say, "Lord Jesus, I love You; now reveal to me anything that You see fit, just bring unto me." Then you're--then you're getting all right. That's right.

L-242 Notice, three times the Bible speaks of--of the Tree of Life in Genesis, three times in the Book of Revelation. The other day we had that. Remember? Sunday, yesterday. The only... The devil hates every bit of Scripture there is, but he hates worse Genesis and Revelation. He attacks Genesis because the authenticity of it, because he wants to make people believe that It wasn't so; "Genesis didn't come about the way that God said they did, had something else caused this creation and thing." Then he attacks it that way. And he takes people away from Revelations because it reveals Jesus as being God, and him being the devil and he's doomed, and the glory of the sanctified church going home to God, and the doom of the false prophet, and all them that lie and do everything going to be cast into the lake of fire. It's no wonder he keeps them away from it.
But remember, both places speaks of the Tree of Life in paradise.

L-243 Now, let's take this just a minute, and now the "Tree." Saint John the 6th chapter, if you want to mark it down, Jesus said, "I am the--the--the Bread of Life." Now, remember.
Now, we're going to use these two posts as a symbol here. So just before closing now. Now, on my right hand is the tree in the garden called the Tree of Life; on my left hand is the tree in the garden that's called the tree of knowledge. How many knows that the Bible says that there's a Tree of Life and a tree of knowledge? Now, man was to live by this Tree of Life, not to touch the tree of knowledge. Is that right? And the first time he touched it, he separated himself from his Creator. He lost his--his fellowship with God when he took his first bite of knowledge. Now, think hard now. And you writing your notes, I'll give time so you can get it, 'cause I don't want you to miss this.

L-245 Jesus, in Saint John 6... They were drinking from a fountain, and throwing up their hands and putting on a mockery there, that their fathers drank from the spiritual Rock, and so forth. He said, "I'm that Rock that was in the wilderness."
And they said, "Here you're saying that you was before Abraham, and you're a man not over fifty years old. And you say that you saw Abraham? We know that--now, that, you're mad; you're a devil." See?
He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." I AM was in the bush with Moses: the burning bush, I AM. "Before Abraham was, I AM." Not, "I was."
Now, you people that say the days of miracles is past, you'd have to make that Scripture say, "I was the great I was." See?
Not "I was," or "I will be"; "I AM," that's all the time. He's eternal. The word "I AM" is an eternal, all their age, all the time, in all the seven golden candlesticks, every church, every place, every heart, "I AM," not "I was" or "I will be." "I am right now as I always was. (See?) Always, I AM."


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