<TITLE>14. Par 53-56</TITLE>L-53 So here He was. And He said, "After man is finished here and you've lived your time out... This is seed time, but there is a land beyond this that a man lives." He came to His Kadesh-barnea. It's called Calvary. There not only was He judged, but He was judged for you and I. He took the sins of Adam. And there He stood the judgment, crossed over the river of Jordan of death. But on the third day He come back. What was He? Bringing the evidence, like Joshua; He brought the evidence that the land's real. A man lives after death. Hallelujah. Man lives after he dies.
Job said in Job 14: "If a man dies, can he live again? Or shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change comes. I know my Redeemer liveth." Being a prophet hundreds of years before... When Elihu talked to him and--and the Spirit of God came up on this prophet, broke out in boils, and in a terrible shape... He'd lost everything he had but his life.

L-54 And he was setting there, and the Spirit come upon him. He looked down through the stream of time for four thousand years, and he saw the coming of the Lord. He said, "I know my Redeemer liveth, and at the last days he will stand on the earth. Though the skin worms destroys this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Who I'll see for myself, mine eyes shall behold, and not another."
And here He was crossed over Jordan after He stood the judgment for the world. And crossed over Jordan, He come back. Some of them said, "It's a spirit."
Said, "Just handle me. Does a spirit have bones and flesh like I got? And by the way," He says, "have you got something to eat?" Yes. And they give Him fish and bread. And He eat it. He said, "Now, spirit don't eat like this." Amen.

L-55 But He said, "Children, you go out here and be baptized in my Name now. And I want you to confess your sins. And you go and you wait up there at the city of Jerusalem, and I'm going to give you the earnest of that. I'm going to give you the earnest of your salvation." You know what the earnest is. It is the down payment. It's some of it... It's just a little bit of the--the real. "Now, I will give you the earnest of it." And then they waited until the day that it came, and they received the earnest of their salvation.
Now, think of it friends. There's no more. We're on our road. Where? To a promised land. Journeying--with what? The evidence. Our Joshua has come back. Glory. And we have the evidence. For once we were in sin and trespasses, but we died to the things of the world. And we are buried in Him and raised with Him in His resurrection. And now, we're up above them things, passed from death unto Life. We're living in it, the evidence. How do you know He lives? Well, I'm living above that, already raised up from that, done tasted the firstfruits of the resurrection. That's it. That's what I'm talking about.

L-56 Now. Yes, sir. The spies come in, these intellectual spies to spy out. And they find where something starts here, and they turn his guns in on it, and make all the women go to dressing evil, make all the men start hating and lying. Oh, he can just pour it on them (You see?), 'cause they're real giants. But you know, that's too much for the poor, humble children of God. Yes, that's right.
You know, these people creep in, leading them away. You know Jude said, over in the book of Jude, he said, "They creep in--slip in. Men of old times was foreordained to this condemnation." You don't believe it, what about that? Yeah. "Foreordained to this condemnation..." What? Come in, these intellectual giants coming in, creeping in, "turning the grace of God into lasciviousness (You see?), turning away the faith of the people." Oh, my. What do they do?


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