<TITLE>11. Par 36-38</TITLE>L-36 And as God in the beginning knowed that man would fall, therefore He could put him on free moral agency, knowing because He could display His attributes to be a Father, to be a Son, to be a Healer, to be a Saviour... How could He save, 'less something lost? And in God was the attributes, before there even was an angel or a molecule or anything, God was by Himself, alone; but He wasn't God, 'cause God is an object of worship. There was nothing for Him to worship--nothing to worship Him. But His attributes--attributes displayed something and made an angel. Then He was God. Then He made a man; give him free moral agency. He fell. Then when he fell, He become a Saviour. In the fall he took sickness, so He become a healer. See? It's displaying God's attributes. See what I mean?
Now, He also knowed that there had to be a lost people and a saved people. There had to be a false baptism and a... So He puts it here, again a tree of knowledge. Here's one, Acts 2:38; one, Matthew 28:19.
So, how was it revealed to Abel? Abel, by faith, offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice. He didn't have no Bible to go by, so it must have been revelation to Abel. There was both boys. If God only requires a worship, then God is unjust to condemn Cain. Cain made a altar, built a church, worshiped, and made a sacrifice. Every religious thing that Abel did, so did Cain. Is that right? But Abel, by revelation, offered to God (It's revelation; you walk by faith.) a more excellent sacrifice. How did Abel know it, that it wasn't fruit of the fields that Cain offered? It was blood that brought them from the garden. Life was not in the fruit: blood brought the life. It was revealed to him, a revelation.
Here's the same basis He puts us on that He did on them back there: a revelation. Now, there can't be a contradiction.

L-37 Now, you all wasn't always Christians. You were born in sinners. I imagine as a little girl... (I don't know whether you did or not, but I'm going to take all of us in the room, to make an illustration here now, so that you'll understand.) When you were little girls, say you read love story magazines. Most all little girls do. Any kind of a magazine; it wouldn't have to be a love story--any story. See? Nice. Could not have been one of these modern bookstand stories, but any story, even Romeo and Juliet. See? Why you... You read a love story. And I'm showing you this way now, so that you can catch it in a parable.

L-38 If you picked up a storybook, and you read it, and it said, "John and Mary lived happy ever after," well, you get to wondering who's John and Mary. Who is John and Mary? Well, you just read the last words of the book, that said, "and John and Mary lived happy ever after." You begin to wonder, "Who is John, and who is Mary?" Is that right? Now, there's only one way to find out who John and Mary was, go back to the first of the book, start reading. Is that right?
Well now, this is the last chapter of Matthew. If the last book of Matthew, He said, "Go you therefore... teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost," and Father's no name, and Son's no name, and Holy Ghost is no name, who are they?
Now, let's take it this morning upon the same basis that we would to John and Mary. Let's go back to the first of Matthew and find out. Come back to the first chapter of Matthew, then. All right. See who John and Mary is, that lived happy ever after. (How much more time? All right, all right.)


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