<TITLE>04. Par 14-18</TITLE>L-14 And I have been reading some history on the Pentecostal move, how right on a hundred years ago it was poured out in Russia. They rejected it. See what they got? And wherever God sends His blessings and people reject it, that a place always goes into chaos, just rots in its condition. And we are sure that the message and the power of God, which we all believe in, is such strange--so strange to the world and its way of thinking, until, I believe, that our nation has practically done what the rest of them has done. Now, to the honor and praise of God, we are grateful for what He has given to us.

L-15 And Israel: God gave Israel, which was His servant, a possession. And we want to base it like a Sunday school lesson. And I--tomorrow night I intending to preach on the subject of "Why And How To Return Back." And now, tonight I thought I'd... more or less, so the people wouldn't get it--wouldn't miss it, rather, fail to get it, I'd kind of teach it like a lesson of what has taken place, and to my honest and sincere belief, what it's been, and what has taken place, and why. And then tomorrow night, "How Do We Come Back?"

L-16 Now, in a type, or a figure, we take Israel because it's the jubilee time and the church was given a portion, which was Christ Himself that was poured out by the Holy Spirit into each heart that would receive It and become sons of God. Now, Israel was a servant to God, and he--it was given a possession. And this possession was not to be given to anyone else. It was to be to Israel only. Palestine belonged to them.
And if we had the time, or time would permit us, rather, to go back and take the birth of those patriarchs when they were born by those women. And each one when the baby was being borned and the mother in labor uttered the voice of this patriarch, positionally placed him in his place in Palestine hundreds of years later. How we can put our confidence in this written Word of God because It's so inspired, that every phase of It hangs together, and It's drawing a picture for us of what God was, and what God is, and always will be.

L-17 Now, we find that when Joshua divided the inheritance to the people, each person was placed positionally, exactly the way these Hebrew mothers named those children, how they were placed in Palestine just at their place; Asher, Gad, and--and Naphtali, and each one, Judah. Every one just placed in their position.
What a--a wonderful picture it gets us, because it's a type of God's placing in the church, Himself, every member, every stone, every place, every Christian, to itself. Each one of us in our peculiar way has a place in the house of God, like Solomon's temple when it was cut out all over the world. But when it was brought in by--to Joppa by--floated in and took from there by ox-cart... And all these odd rocks had their place when the temple went together.

L-18 And I think that God, down through this time has cut out some very odd stones that we might not have understood, but they have their place exactly in the temple, in the building of God. And Joshua, by inspiration, not by just mathematics, he--he by... Inspired by God he 'lotted each one of those patriarchs in their position, just exactly the way their name belongs.
What a--a picture it puts before us of God in His master works. No one could've ever done it but God. There's no way of doing it: God alone. It was to be for--was to be their--theirs forever. It was a gift from God. God, by His marvelous grace, give these people this land in this position and placed them in it according to His Word and the birth of the people. Just perfect, how it clucked right together. And I think it was a type.


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