<TITLE>05. Par 28-33</TITLE>L-28 And then how that those of Father... Like Matthew said, "Go ye therefore, teach all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost." See? Now, Father... Don't mean we got three Gods. We got one God in three offices: Fatherhood, Sonship, Holy Spirit, same God yesterday, today, and forever. That's exactly.
Now, notice how glorious that was manifested to Abraham, and how that God in this Light went between these pieces, severing them. Just as the... We took last night, how they made a contract, wrote it out and then tore it, that they must dovetail. The contract must dovetail.

L-30 Now, you see, friends, that's what I'm trying to say. Even among our Pentecostal people, there is becoming this devil of intellectual, trying to make people... Now, I believe in all the gifts of God. I believe in shouting. I believe in speaking with tongues. I believe in all the things that God said. But yet you cannot rely upon any of those things being the--why you've got the Holy Ghost. See, your life has to go with it. See? Your... "By your fruits you are known." See? And those are the things that worries me today, because I see my own church, the Pentecostal church, becoming that form of godliness, and getting away from Truth. And bring the Truth of the Word to them, they back off from It. Then ask them, "Come, set with me." They won't do it. See, it shows there's something wrong. That's what worries me. And now, it's not as I'm against my church. I'm--I...

L-31 If I love Christ, it'd be a lot more better for me to brag on His Church than it would be brag on Him. Because I would rather you'd brag on my children than to brag on me. And remember, I've often thought, if I had two drops of the literal Blood of Jesus in a charger, how I would hold That, that I didn't spill It. I'd walk real careful. But tonight I've got greater than that in His sight; I've got the purchased of His Blood. See, He shed His Blood for you. And here I am as a minister tonight, holding, or pointing you your Eternal destination. So I'm not going to refer to any creed or any dogma; it's got to be the Word, 'cause that's the thing that's going to last. My faith is built on the Word, and Christ is the Word. And if Christ be made the Word, then the Word is made manifest right among us. See, it's got to be.

L-32 Now, therefore, I believe that God of the Old Testament, all that He was, He poured into Jesus His Son. And all that Jesus of the New Testament was, He poured into the Church that He purchased with His Own Blood. See? "A little while and the world (kosmos there, the world order) will see Me no more. Yet ye shall see Me (ye, the Church,) for I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world." Then the Life, that Contract, that Spirit that was took out of Christ at Calvary is brought back and poured down upon the people, the Seed of Abraham, that God made the promise to. Remember, it wasn't to all his seeds, but the Seed.

L-33 Now, there's a doctrine of predestination which is rotten, nonsense. But there really is a true predestination. God, by foreknowledge could predestinate, because He has foreknowledge. God's not willing that any should perish, but being the infinite God, knew that who would perish and who would not.
That's the reason He said before Isaac or--or before Jacob or Esau was born, He hated Esau and loved Jacob. His foreknowledge let Him know that Esau was a shyster, and He let Him know that Jacob respected that birthright; regardless of how he got it, he wanted it. Now, both boys, twins, born from the same holy mother and father, but one was a renegade and the other was a--a believer. Now, God by His foreknowledge knew that.


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