<TITLE>12. Par 90-97</TITLE>L-90 Let's take Israel. I got a Scripture written down here. I write it down and I can just refer to it in my mind. If you want to put it down, this will be a good one to remember if you want to, Deuteronomy 7:7. God gave Abraham His promise, or gave not Abraham, pardon me, give Israel, and told them, "If you will not associate with idolatry, if you'll not do these things, if you'll stay away from all these pagan ceremonies, if you'll do all these things, then I'll bring you to a good land. I'll take care of you. I'll feed you; I'll lead you. I'll do these things if you'll do such-and-such, if you'll love Me, if you'll keep My commandments, My statutes, My ordinances. I'll do all these things if you'll just do something, and keep My commandments and love Me."

L-91 Just like a husband taking a wife, and saying, "If you'll be a good woman, if you'll take care of the house, if you'll be true to me, if you'll keep my clothes clean; if we have children, if you'll be a mother to them; if you'll do things, I'll work till my hands bleed to make you a living, if you'll do it." But then, think, what if that woman turns wrong, lives lazy, won't work, won't do nothing? Then it takes grace to keep that family together.
O God. It taken the grace of Jehovah to keep His family together. And that's the only way we're Jehovah's family today, is because of the grace of Jesus Christ; we'd all be gone. But it's grace, oh, grace.

L-93 Now, but they didn't keep it. But they were... never did come to the full promise, not that generation. No, the one that promise was made to perished in the wilderness. But God fed them; God took care of them; God loved them; He moved around. Why? His grace did it, His grace because of His promise, His promise then, the grace that went with His promise. But they never did come to the full value of the promised land.
And neither does this church come to its full value. The grace of God holds us. But He wants to get a church that'll obey Him, a people that'll take His Word and say It's the Truth, regardless of your organization. He wants a people that'll not say, "Well, I'm just as good as you are. I'm Presbyterian; I'm Methodist; I'm Catholic; I'm as good as you are." That's not grace; that shows there's something wrong.

L-95 But a person, regardless, that'll read God's Word and see that you've got to be borned again and filled with the Holy Ghost, they'll believe that; they'll take it by the Word. They'll take the Word exactly what It says.
Like in baptisms and sprinkling; baptism is right. There's nobody in the Bible ever sprinkled, no such a thing in the Scripture. Neither was there ever anybody baptized in the name of Father, Son, Holy Ghost, in the Bible. They was every one baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ. So there's not one, not even one speck of history for... If anybody can show anywhere, anywhere in the history, where any person was ever baptized in the Bible, or three hundred years after the death of the last disciple, until the Catholic church, if anybody can show anywhere that anybody was ever sprinkled or baptized in name of Father, Son, Holy Ghost, until the Catholic church, you're soul duty bound to come tell me. It's not there. But what do we do?

L-97 We've been through the church ages and see where they had to do that. So you see, God wants somebody that'll obey Him. If it's not in the Scriptures, then it's not of man--it's a man-made doctrine and not a Bible doctrine. See? So regardless of what the church is, how wrong you've been, what difference does that make? It's how right you can be now. God's grace has showed it to you, then walk in it. God's grace...


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