<TITLE>06. Par 44-52</TITLE>L-44   But, that soul that's in there, see, that soul is what God is working on, see. If He can only get that nature, that spirit, to agree with Him, then that nature dies, the nature and the love of the world dies, and the things of the world is dead. See? Because, "If you love the world, or the things of the world, the love of God is not in you." See? And a man must be born again. So, this nature has to die, and the nature of God comes and lives in you. And God is the only thing there is that never did begin or never can end.

L-45   So, therefore, He has partnershipped, you see, and taken this man, earthly, and this Eternal Spirit, and put it together. Because, God reflected Himself back in that, that He become a Man when He become Christ Jesus, and He was God, see. God was in Christ; that, see, lived in Him, reconciling the world to Himself. And, through that perfect Man, each one of us imperfect that believe in God and has accepted That, becomes the perfection of Him.

L-46   And He never left His body see corruption, neither did He leave His soul in hell, but raised Him up on the third day, and He's alive forevermore. And we will have a body like His Own glorious body.

L-47 That's why we're baptized into His Name, that we might come forth in His Name, in His death, in His resurrection, that we rise again, testifying to the world that we have new Life, that the old man is dead. We buried that first nature. See? That first nature is gone, and now we are the nature of Him. He lives in us, and we don't do our own will. We do His will. We don't think our own thoughts. The mind, the mind is what thinks. The mind that was in Christ Jesus is in every believer. See, there--there is the soul, and that's what we're speaking of. Now, that's the part that I'm thinking of now, that that's within us, the soul.

L-48   Now, if we notice, in this, there is many things that happen sometime, and we wonder why they happen, and we question ourselves, and we question others. But finally, after a while, we find out that, if we're Christians, it all works out just right, somehow. You've seen that. All Christians see that. We wonder why we did it.

L-49 I wondered sometime, when I first read the Bible, "Why did God let Abraham, that great man, ever stand there and say that Sarah wasn't his wife?" And how that He let him stand there and lie about that, and the things that he did, and then how that He ever let Abraham leave the promised land where He told him not to leave. Any Jew that leaves the promised land is backslid, 'cause God gave that to them and promised them to stay there, see, and they left it. So he went down into Gerar. But if it hadn't have been for that...

L-50   And then Abimelech, that king down there in the Philistine country, fell in love with Sarah and was going to marry her, and was a good man, a righteous man. And after he probably... This sounds ridiculous, but to make it so real to you. After he had his evening bath and put on his pajamas, and said his prayers and went to bed, the Lord appeared to him and said, "You're just as good as a dead man," and the man had done nothing. See? He was absolutely deceived, by both Abraham and Sarah. That's right. He said, "You've got another man's wife, see. And I--I won't hear your prayers, no matter how much you pray. You're as good as dead. But that man is My prophet." See?

L-51   See, it's hard to understand that, see. But if it wasn't that, we wouldn't know what grace was.

L-52 Why did he go and marry Hagar, after having a lovely wife like Sarah? And he didn't want to do it, see, but Sarah told him. And then the Lord told him, "You listen to what Sarah told you." Why? There had to be an Ishmael, "that the bondswoman and her child would not be heir with the free woman and her child." See what I mean?


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