<TITLE>06. Par 54-63</TITLE>L-54   Now, many people kind of write down, and the text that a minister uses. And I, if you wish to now, I'd like to read two places in the Holy Script. That is, in Genesis the 22nd chapter, we will go first and read. And then in Saint John 12:32, we'll read for the second part of the Scripture. Now, in John... In Genesis 22, we begin with the 7th verse of the 22nd chapter.
And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for the burnt-offering?
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for the burnt offering: so they went both of them together.

L-55 And now in Saint John 12:32, we read these Words from our Lord's lips.
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.

L-56 And now for a text that I would like to speak from, on this, is, "Accepting God's provided way for the end time." Let me quote that again, because, on the tapes. I believe they're taping these Messages. And on the tapes that we have, some five hundred texts that I guess I've preached from, they've got something similar to that, but not exactly this. Accepting God's Provided Way At The End Time.

L-57   You know, there is many ways that--that people take, but really there's only two ways that a man can go, that's, the right way and the wrong way. And all of us here, tonight, we're on one of those roads, the right one or the wrong one. There's no middle ground. Jesus said, "You cannot serve God and mammon," meaning, "the world." We're either right or wrong.

L-58 And now if we'll just get away from our own way, is the only way we can get in God's way. And God has made a provided way for everything. He has provided the way. And where we get in trouble, is not following that way, and--and injecting into It our own ways. And that makes a perversion. And anything that's perverted is--is not dependable. So, God has a way. And let's just look at some of His ways.

L-59   Let's take something in nature. Because, nature was my first Bible. I know God is a Creator, and He created nature. And He lives in His creation, in nature.

L-60 Let's take, for instance, the tree. I just pulled up under one, a few moments ago out there, or Billy did, and the limbs on it. And I noticed the leaves falling. Now, we have never been able, and we never will be able, to find a better way for a tree to hide its life through the winter, than God's provided way for it to hide its life.

L-61   Now, what if we tried to manufacture some other way than the regular provided way for the tree? What if every August or September, in the land especially where I come from, the North, if we would have to go out to the apple orchard and get some kind of a--of a instrument and place it into the tree, along about August after the apples are ripened, and pull the life out of the tree and take it into a good warm place, and keep it through the winter, the life, sap life out of the tree, and place it in a good warm container and keep it till Spring, and then inject it back into the tree? You know, that would never work. It would never be so. And to try to do it would only kill the tree.

L-62 But God has a way to take care of that life through the winter. God made a way. Knowing that winter would come on the tree, He made a way for it. I was had the privilege of leading a seventy-five-year-old infidel to Christ, by that, not long ago.

L-63   Mr. Wood, a neighbor of mine, and he was a Jehovah Witness by faith. And he had a boy that was crippled, had a leg drawn up under him. And his wife, I believe, belonged to the--the Anderson movement of the Church of God. And they come to Louisville, Kentucky, where they lived out in a little place called Crestwood, about thirty miles from Louisville.


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