<TITLE>13. Par 49-52</TITLE>L-49 And how glad we are tonight we got it. How many's glad you got a new birth? Oh, I'm so happy. Let's take a little step. I say a lot of things, just like any other man, you know, I get all mixed up and everything. But once in a while the Lord gives me something and I--I, well, I--I like it real good. And you know, reading... Every time I read His Word I always that, because that's perfect. But sometimes He lets me say something, you know, it sounds real good to me. And He let me say something the other day, it just helped me so good. Oh, my. It sounds almost profound, if it's not irreligious to say it, or not right to say it.
I'll tell you what it was. I was thinking about our guarantee. How do we know... There's so many different things, how do you know you're right? So many religions in the world and things. Look. One time Israel was way down in Egypt, and as God's people, they'd been down there for hundreds of years. And they were slaves, drove around any way. And the enemy would come out, and basketful of old molded bread and pitch it out. They had to eat it or die. And their young daughters was ravished. Nothing they could do about it: nothing. Wanted to kill their sons, they just killed them; that's all. What a horrible thing it was.

L-50 So coming down out of the wilderness come a prophet with a Pillar of Fire, they said, that followed him. He was coming to bring them a message that "There's a land that God has for you." And they listened to this prophet.
Out of the... Egypt they went by the hand of God. They came to a place called Kadesh-barnea. Kadesh-barnea was a judgment seat, a great judgment seat, one time, in the world I'm told. And there they had one among them by--a great warrior, by the name of Joshua. I believe it means "Jehovah-Saviour," or "Jehovah-Saviour": Joshua.
This great warrior, you know what he did? He wanted to show the children that that seat... None of them had ever been over there; they didn't really know that land was there. They just believed it. That's it. That's it. Just what... This prophet brought them the Word of the Lord. 'Course the Word comes by the prophet. You see? So then they... so they come... And the Word of the Lord came to this prophet, and he brought it to them and said, "There's a land flowing with milk and honey where you can have your own farms, raise your children and feed them, and live in peace."

L-51 So when Joshua got close there at the judgment, great Kadesh-barnea... And we all know the story. That's where Israel had her judgment too. So then Joshua crossed over Jordan, went over into the promised land, and come back with the evidence that the land was real. He had grapes. He had grapes that they could taste, that the land was real. You could reach and taste the--the grapes. Why, they was so big that two men packed a bunch of them on their shoulder. "Oh," he said, "the land is real."
So the people crossed over. They made their homes; they had their own nation; they lived in peace. God's hand was upon them and blessed them, and give them mighty men, and to think... But after while when they'd get old, they'd finally come down and die. And they'd die. And the first thing you know, the hillsides begin to be covered with graves, tombs of the righteous men, the prophets, and--and the sages and kings, and--and righteous men.

L-52 So then another great warrior came down. Oh, he was king of all of them, called (the Frenchman calls Him "Jsus") Jesus, the warrior. Jehovah. And He came down and He loved them. But He said, "You know, you have to get old to die. But there is life after death: life after death. 'For in My Father's house is many mansions: if it wasn't so, I would've told you.'" See, what's He doing? Telling us old people that there is a land... After we get through here, there's another land. Not only was the Pillar of Fire following, He was the Pillar of Fire...?... See? He was the Angel of the covenant.


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