<TITLE>07. Par 20-22</TITLE>L-20 Then God was so pleased with complete obedience. God had tried his patriarch. He had tried his servant. And every son that cometh to God must be what? Tried. Chastened. That's where that many fall away, because we can't stand that trial. A person come to the altar in time of revival. And you'll watch just a little while, and the hot trials begin to come. Jesus plainly taught it, said, "The sower went forth sowing seed. Some fell by the wayside, some fell into stony ground, and amongst thorns and thistles, and the others fell over in good ground." And He said that's the way the Word went, goes out. Some hears the Word, go out; birds come along, pick it up. See, they don't--don't do no good at all. Others come up overnight. Oh, they're going to do great things. But when the trials begin to come, it chokes them down. But some goes all the way over into good ground, and that brings forth a hundredfold.

L-21 Let's be the hundredfolds. Let's go way over, sell out everything from the world, and look to Christ, and believe Him with all of our hearts. That's how these things happen. That's how visions come. That's how power the--of God moves among us, is when we're... No roots of bitterness, and everything's cleaned out, and the Holy Spirit can work through us, then we become a channel. What if there was a short in this speaker tonight? You'd never be able to hear me. It'd be all full of static. You wouldn't know what I was saying. Well, that's just like we are. That's a--that's a mute, until something makes a noise in it. It cannot speak itself. And that's the way we are. We know nothing about the heavenlies. But it takes the Holy Spirit to come down and use our eyes for visions, our lips for words and prophecies, and--and--and speak the words, and watch the things happen. "Ask what you will in My Name, it shall be done unto you." See? "If ye abide in Me, and My words in you, ask what you will, and it'll be done unto you. Verily I say unto you, if you say to this mountain, Be moved; and don't doubt in your heart, but believe that what you have said will come to pass; you can have what you've said." Saint Mark 11:22 and 23. Now, we know that those things are true.

L-22 Now, we find that Abraham first was tried. And after he had endured the trials... And what does the Bible say that we are if we cannot stand the chastisement of God? Then we become illegitimate children, so-called children, but not real children of God. The children of God knows exactly where they stand. They know where they've put their hope, their faith, their trust. Nothing will ever shake them from it. "All the Father has given Me will come." That's right. And now... "He that comes to Me I will in no wise cast out. He that heareth My words, and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Eternal Life, and shall never come into condemnation; but has passed from death unto life." There's the Scripture. See? Saint John 5:24. They believe it. They've accepted it. There's something happened to them. They become a new creature. They're a new nature. They're--they're a new being, a new creature there. The Greek word says "new creation." It's a new creation. You have been recreated again from what you were, to the image of a son of God and a daughter of God. It's just such an awe... It's the greatest miracle that ever happened when a sinner can be made to become a Christian.


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