<TITLE>17. Par 213-221</TITLE>L-213   Now, if He is our Absolute, there can be no other absolute. You can't have, say, "Well, my--my church is my absolute. My creed is my absolute." If Christ is your Absolute, you believe Christ's Word. There's no other way to do it.

L-214 You know, I think about the time that He saved me. I'll tell you why I stand the way I do; not to be different. I made myself clear on that; I hope I have. But I... When Christ saved me, there were millions of people groping in sin. When He saved me, He had a purpose in doing it. He had a purpose in saving me. He just seen an ignoramus like me, and--and, somehow or another, when there was plenty of smart men, more able men, men that could do it. Me here, with not even hardly a seventh-grade education, when there was men who studied in school and got degrees, and doctors of--of divinity and philosophy, and so forth. But when Christ saved me, He had a purpose in doing it, or He'd have never saved me.

L-215 Listen, brethren. I love you, and you know that. But I'm determined in my heart that I'll never back on that Word. I'll stay right there. That's my Absolute, I been tied to, all these years. Now, He had a purpose in doing it. That's right. And I aim to see that purpose through, to stay with that Word; not to be different, not to be mean, but to be honest and sincere with God. That's right.

L-216   Now, you know, Christ's death had an absolute to it. Everybody was afraid of death, even the great prophet Job. Many of the people were afraid of death, a fear. And men always feared it. But when Christ come and took death upon Him, He become an Absolute to those who feared death. In Hebrews 2:14-15, "He took the form of man," to die like a man, to pay the penalty. But, on Easter, He came forth with the keys of death and hell. He had conquered it. He come, He said, "Fear not. I am He that was dead, and alive forevermore."

L-217 And our Absolute is on Him, that's right, in Him. And He was the perfect Word of God. He was so perfect till, when He spoke His Word, it created. It stopped the winds. It--it made biscuits, and cooked fish, just by His Word. See? There was no hindrance. He was so perfect. He said the Word and He were One.

L-218   He was God's love, in John 3:16. Produced a body, not born after sex, under the fall. But was born by a creative power of God, that God Himself lived in this body and projected His Word out. "And God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself," making an absolute for any believer. And He went to His grave, with a load of sin upon Him, and paid the penalty. And rose up on Easter morning, with the keys of death and hell. It's an absolute to any man that fears death.

L-219 Let me say this. I don't know how many more Messages I have to preach 'fore I go. But if you're a real believer in God, and been born again, don't be scared of death. It's the best thing could happen to you, almost. Paul said, "To me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." Certainly. It's... Don't never fear death. Second Thessalonians, "We're caught up with our loved ones, to meet Him in the air." What a promise! What an absolute that it is, to believe in Christ, to have my heart say "amen" to every Word in His Book!

L-220 What He says, I believe It, too. That I know, that the Holy Spirit is my Compass, because It guides me to His Absolute, see, His North Star; to Him, the North Star. He is my Absolute, my Sun, my Post, my North Star. Oh, my!

L-221 He is so much different from others I see, always there's something pulling, some string you got to pull. But, in This here, you pull nothing. The only thing, it's brought down on you. It's the Absolute. Christ is our Absolute.


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