<TITLE>12. Par 108-114</TITLE>L-108 We are waiting for the fulness of adoption. This will take place when? At the first resurrection. That's when our bodies will be changed from these vile creatures that we are and we'll have a body like His own glorious body, for we shall see Him as He is, and we will be like Him. When He appears, we appear in His likeness. We'll have a body like His, a glorious glorified body, and all the trials and struggles of life will fade off into a little mist and blow away to never be no more.
And these earthly tabernacles which we now groan in, we are waiting for that earnest--that earnest for the salvation fully in its fulness to come. But now in these tabernacles of clay we have Something that tells us that we have raised up so far. Amen. What is the Earnest? It's the little down payment that holds it, Brother Dauch. It's the Earnest.
Now, once when we loved the things of the world, once when we sinned and went about doing things of the world, and cared not for God, we were alienated from Him, without God, without Christ, in the world, now God sent His Holy Spirit and through that we are lifted up from those things. Now, we have the Earnest, that we know that we've passed from death unto Life. Amen.
Here, as I was trying to show this like here. Here's where the ordinary sinner runs, down here on the bottom. Now, the Christian goes up a little higher than this; he rises above all that stuff. That's the Earnest of his salvation.

L-111 Now, that you might know when--what visions do to you. So help me, God being my judge, I never intend to have another one. If it does, I'll keep it to myself (See?), 'cause I see what it does. The people are not ready for such a ministry, so you just have to let it go (You see?), go on back here. If I ever come to the field again, I'll be an evangelist. But look here. On this here, coming back in here, up in here, you go up into this heavenlies up in here. You live right up around in those realms there. You go beyond anything that man can think of, beyond anything of them things. And it brings you up into them spaces there.

L-112 But, you see, now we have, by the Holy Spirit, the Earnest of our inheritance, because we've been lifted up from the things of the world; and we ride right along with the world, but we are above the world. Oh, Brother Neville, God be merciful and grant to the church of the living God...
When we ever get to a place to think that the church, a beautiful church, that we're trying to compare with the things of the world. We're trying to have a better basketball team than they got. We've got to have a--a better building. We've got to have a better bunco game. We've got to have better this and that, or that. Why, how can we ever compare with the glamor and the glistening of the world? We are not... The Gospel isn't a glisten; it's a glow. There's a difference between a glitter and a glow.

L-114 See, we just go around, as I've said, taking one--one corpse from one morgue to another, changing members and things like that. Well, what good does it do us? And we're trying to make it glittery, big fine steeples, great big fine places. We got to have a better than the Methodist or a better than the Baptist, and we're all trying to compete with the Catholic, and we're having bunco games and parties and suppers and entertainments, and everything.
This church can never compare with the world. How can you and your church entertainment ever compare with the Masonic Lodge or--or any of those people who can entertain? That's their grounds. Don't try to go over on their grounds.


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