<TITLE>08. Par -</TITLE>L-14-2 In Genesis the 20--Genesis, the 20th chapter of Genesis and the 7th verse, I want to read this to follow the--for a context for this text that I am fixing to take. I'll begin with the 6th verse, to get a background to this.
And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou did this in the integrity of thy heart; for I--for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.
Now, therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restoreth her not, know... that thou shall surely die, thou, and all that are thine.
Now, I draw from this a text--or from this Scripture reading, a conclusion of a text called restore.

L-14-4 Now, after Brother Neville preached this morning that notable message, at the last thing he said on his last thoughts was, "To be restored." And so, that give me the idea, right there: to restore.
Now, I rushed home and got my dictionary, and so forth, and some Scripture notes, and begin to copy some things down. And then, I got "Webster's Dictionary" to find out the right definition for restore. "To restore" means "to return to the former owner; or to bring back to the former estate of condition. And we can enforce a claim to be restored."
Now, that's what Webster says the word "restore" means: "to bring back to the former owner; or to bring back to a former state of condition." And if a claim is made on something, to make that restoration, you can enforce it--to make it come back to its right place. And may God bless the feeble words now.

L-15-1 "To restore" means "to bring back, or to restore; a--a claim can be enforced." Now, to bring anything back to its rightful owner, where it belongs... Therefore, some way it went away from its rightful owner, and can wander around anywhere. But to restore is to bring it back to who really owns it, or to bring it back to its natural estate, where it was at the first time--bring it back into its natural condition. And in order to do this we have a right to enforce (if there's a law), to enforce this rightful condition of restoration--to restore.

L-15-2 Like if somebody stole some property, and they're holding the property captive. Then you can take the law and go to this person, and the law forces--enforces this person to restore this property back to its natural owner, into its...?... or first estate. Enforcement...
Oh, what a text, how I'd like to have two days on that: enforce. Now, Brother Neville preached for us; I'm just going to talk to you, teach the Sunday school lesson so it'll--it'll--get it to continue on, I hope, with what he had.

L-15-4 Enforce... Then, we are the--have the privilege to enforce upon Satan the claims that God give us, for God has a law; and His Word is the Law. And God in this Word made certain claims to the church. Therefore, we have a right to force these claims upon Satan and say, "Give it back."
And he has to do it, because we can take God's Agent, the Holy Spirit, go right down on our knees, and say, "It's THUS SAITH THE LORD." He's got to give it up; that's all, 'cause the Holy Spirit's there to make him do it.

L-15-6 The law of the land is to enforce--it's by the land, for the land. But the Law of the Spirit of God is to force Satan to give up that which he has unrightfully, deceitfully taken from God. Souls of men he took from God, souls of women, children; sickness of the body, he placed upon people where God made them in His image to be like Him. And the church is given the rightful, legal rights by the Bible, to take the Holy Spirit and enforce this upon them.


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