<TITLE>16. Par 53-56</TITLE>L-53 What is the tactics of Satan? Reasoning. "It's just reasonable." And when you hear anything that reasons against the Word, get away from it. It's the devil. I don't care how old fashion it is, how strange it looks, when God said so, that settles it eternally. Get away from anything that reasons against the Word.
"Oh, it's reasonable today we don't need Divine healing, because we got fine doctors." Get away from that.
"It's... "Oh, just the twelve apostles received the Holy Ghost. It..." Well, why did Peter say "It's for you, and for your children, and to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call?"
A fellow said it was just for back there. I said, "You're too late. I done got it down here," so--so we--so we know it's right. See? Anything that reasons against the Word of God... Said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." How... "Go ye into all the world, preach the Gospel to every creature. He that believeth (in all the world at all times), these signs shall follow them that believe." How far?
I can show you where God put Divine healing in the church. Now, you show me where He took it out by the Word. See? The miracles and signs, and the Holy Ghost, He's the same Jesus yesterday, today, and forever. Certainly.

L-54 Now, notice. If--if Satan could ever get Eve just to reason that that Word was... Said, "Now, surely you'll not die. Oh, sure, God has said... That's exactly right. But surely..."
That's the first thing that he won by, and that's the thing he still knocked the human race down by: reasoning. He kills the human race by reasoning against His Word.
And great seminaries and things raise up, and they put their minds together and reason, and things like that. I don't care how many minds there is, let every man's word be a lie and God's be the truth. Right.

L-55 Notice. God deals with an individual. And notice, but every time there's a certain thing, from that time. From the time that Eve listened to the reasoning of Satan, death came into the world and has reigned ever since. Remember, don't forget that spot that Eve...
There was a time when there was no death on earth. There was a time when men didn't have to die. But because that Eve reasoned, listened to Satan's reasoning against God's Word, death begin to reign from that time on. And it reigns yet today. But let me say this: in the face of all of it, there is a time, and a thing that can happen that will never change. It's eternal.
There is something that can happen in a human life that can never change, that is eternal. That's when a man meets God. That is eternally settled, when a man meets God, and's borned again of the Spirit of God, he has Eternal Life. Now, we believe that with all of our heart.
And remember, when that man, a human being, or that woman, that boy, or that girl, ever meets God and is changed, he's never the same. He's changed from that time on. That's right. He will never be the same. No matter, he might get away from God, but God will never get away from him. Everywhere you go, you'll be haunted day and night if you ever meet God, till you come back again. That's right.

L-56 A backslider is the most miserable life there is. And so, it'll haunt you day and night. How many times have we heard their confessions and things, how miserable, how wretched, all that. If they did... They know they have to reap exactly what they sowed. And remember, you plant one grain and get a whole ear full of them. See? So we know that there is going to be plenty of reaping for what sowing you done. And... But the man that ever meets God is never the same. Let's take a few men now, before we come to the spot we want to.


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