<TITLE>06. Par 57-66</TITLE>L-57   And there is only one form of Eternal Life. We strive for that. And he was given that opportunity to receive It, when he asked, because it's written, "Ask and you shall receive."

L-58 And It was presented to him, but yet foolish enough to turn down because the price was too great. And as a Christian, and traveling the world, I find that same desire in so many people's hearts today. As my wife used to say, "You want to eat your cake, and keep it, too." You--you can't do that.

L-59 You can't hold to the love of the world, and to God, at the same time. "For you cannot love God, and mammon," which means, "the world. And if you love the world, or the things of the world, the love of the Father isn't in you."

L-60   But so many people like to say, "I belong to so." But that's not the question. That's not the policy that I'm talking about, this morning.

L-61 It's Eternal Life, everlasting Life! And anything that's Eternal, never did begin, therefore it cannot end. Eternal never begins. And then the only way that you can be Eternal, is to receive Eternal Life. And there is only one thing Eternal, and that's God. Not by joining a church, or creeds, or turning a new page on New Year's, or whatever it is; but it's receiving God, the Person of God, in the form of the Holy Spirit, into your life. And you become part of God, and just as Eternal as He is, because you're a part of Him. Everything has a beginning has an end. The world began, it ends; heaven begins, it ends. Jesus said, "Heavens and earth will pass away, but My Words shall never," because He is the Word. He is the Word, and that is Eternal.

L-62   And that Word in you produces the Life of Christ. If I could take the life out of a peach tree and put it in a pear, it wouldn't bear peaches no more, it would have pears on it because the life in the tree would produce what it is. The life that's in you shows what you are. Your life testifies so loud, in you, until your testimony is not heard. They know what you are by the life you live and the things that you do. If the Life of Christ is in you, then, therefore, the works and Life of Christ you live, because that's His Life living through you. You're just in a vessel to carry on the work of God.

L-63   What a rashel thing this young man did when he--he wasn't interested in such an investment. He had great wealth, we're told. But the wealth of the world has to perish. What about the young man's condition today, wonder where he is at? He turned down the opportunity he had. Yet, he was a Christian believer, or a believer, we would say, to be more fundamentally. He was a believer, he was walking in all the light that the law had, and probably a loyal member of some great congregation, but yet knew that he lacked Eternal Life.

L-64   Now, he had seen something in Jesus that he never saw in other men. He had saw his priests, seen his people, he had seen good men, but there was something special about Jesus Christ. They seen, even the scribes and the soldiers that was sent, and from the temple, to arrest Him, they said, "Never a man spake like this." He not only spoke as a priest or a--a layman, but He--He had... God backed up what He said. He was...

L-65 He never wrote no books. We don't have anything that Jesus ever written, in His life. Only thing we know, He wrote one time on the sand, when a--a little lady in ill fame was brought to Him, then He erased that back out. Why didn't He write? He was the Word. He was the living proof that there is a living God, His very Life within Him.

L-66 He said, "If I do not the works of My Father, then believe Me not. Though you cannot believe Me," 'cause Him being a man, "yet believe the works. Search the Scriptures, for in Them you think you have Eternal Life, and They are that that testifies of Me. They tell you Who I am." That was a foreign language to many of those clergymen of that day.


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