<TITLE>14. Par 125-132</TITLE>L-125 But thank God we're not of the world. See? So now, there you are. See? And we're... I don't mean the church; he don't control the church. He just controls the world. He said they were his, and he's the god of the world. Jesus said he was, and he is. "He's the god of this earth has blinded the eyes of the people," the god of this earth. He's the God of heaven. And now he rightly don't own this. He does not own it. But he forfeit the...
And Adam forfeited the title deed to it, to this, all this stuff that we own, Eternal Life and the inheriting of the earth. Jesus said in Matthew 5, "Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth." See? Now, we don't have it now.
And, look, it wasn't to Adam or any of his seed. Adam's seed absolutely lost everything too. It's not the seed of Adam. No matter how much we try to beautify this world, and how much we try to make big fine homes and things, it still doesn't belong to Adam's seed. No, sir. It did not go to Adam's seed, no, sir, because Satan took it lock, stock, and barrel. Right. For Adam forfeited it.

L-128 Now, oh, my. Yes, so many things could be said. I--I just don't want to take too much of your time now, so we have to baptize. All right.
He possesses it but he does not rightfully own it; Satan does. When the rightful owner--rightful owner--owner lost it, there's only one way that it can be redeemed. Now, that's by a near kinsman, is the only one who can rightfully redeem it. Now, 'course, this we've have in the virgin birth of Jesus Christ.

L-130 Now, I want to say something here. The first thing that we want to go back to, is, if we go back in the--in the Old Testament here; I believe I got it wrote down here somewhere, Leviticus 25. In Leviticus 25:23 and 24, you can get the laws of redemption, you who are putting it down.
To redeem anything when a man... When God gave Israel its--divided its land up through Joshua, each tribe and each fellow was given a land; well, his children inherited what his--his possession.
Now, if this man got poor and lost anything to another man, this... And only way it could be redeemed would be by a near kinsman. But it finally must come back. This man only holds it for a certain amount of time. It must come back to the original owner. Right. It must go back to the original owner. The... If they was out of the tribe of Judah, if it was... If he was there and this was 'lotted to his father, then it was to him, or some near kinsman could take it. But now, nobody else could rightly... They could hold it; they could hold the deed on it. They could hold the deed until the debt was paid, but when the right man come along, the person that...

L-132 Say, for instance, if I owned a piece of property, and I lost it, and I sold it over to Brother Neville which is of another tribe of Judah, or maybe sold it to an alien... And he rightfully owned it; he owned it; he could come in there and farm it and take the goods off of it, and so forth, but really he just held the deed. "He could not own it," that was a law in Israel. Now, you read it--read it, read in Leviticus 25, and you'll see that they could not rightfully own it; he just held it.


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