<TITLE>06. Par 45-58</TITLE>L-45   Look out here. Look at the sun. The sun comes up of a morning, it's a baby born. God sent it up. It's to serve God's purpose. And at nine o'clock in the morning, it goes to school, it's a teenager. And then at twelve o'clock, it becomes fully matured. After twelve o'clock, fifty years has passed, it's half done, and starts going down, gets weaker, older. It's getting stronger until this time, then starts getting weaker.

L-46 Just as we do. We start out, strong. And get... As we come to our full maturity, we get stronger. Then when a certain age, we're our best. Then we start weakening, all the time, going down.

L-47 Finally, after while, it sets over the western horizon, a beautiful light. It served God's purpose. It dies. The earth colds, cools off, gets cold, over the night. Now is that the end of that sun? Is that the last time you'll ever see it? No. The next morning, she rises up again, in the resurrection. God, every day, testifying to it, said, "There is a life, death, burial, resurrection."

L-48   Everything that you look at speaks the same way, "life, death, burial, and resurrection," that is, if it serves His purpose.

L-49 Now there would be a time that this flower could be a flower and would never live again. There's the point that I wish, and if Garnett could speak to me, this afternoon, here would be what he would want me to say, 'cause he's in the Presence of God. If that seed...

L-50 Many of you men here this afternoon are farmers, or live around here where you see the--the farms and see nature. If the seed is planted, no matter how nice that seed looks, if that seed is not germitized, it will not live. It'll go into the ground, and will rot, and that's the end of it. There's no way, at all. There's nothing there to come back to life. That seed has to be in the pollen with the mate or it will not rise again.

L-51 And there is what makes our assurance of the resurrection again. As Jesus told us, "Except a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God." We're placed here to make a choice.

L-52   And now that beautiful flower... no matter how pretty it is, and how nice and round the seed is. Like a hybrid corn, we could plant hybrid corn, it'll do nothing. It's a nice seed, without life. Its life is perverted.

L-53 And any perverted life from God cannot live again. We must be born again.

L-54 But as surely as that seed is germitized, it's then it rises again. There's no way to keep it from rising again. It's got to, because it's germitized and its botany life is in it.

L-55 Now, a believer has the Life of Christ within him, Who rose up first for our justification, to prove there is resurrection of the human life, a human body, that we live again because we been germitized; in other words, born again, of the Holy Spirit.

L-56   And everything that we could see in nature... I stand here and got many things written on a piece of paper here, that I would like to speak to you about. But that ought to be sufficient, to let you know that you cannot look out without seeing the evidence of death, burial, and resurrection. Wherever you go, whatever you look at, it's impossible to pass over: death, burial, resurrection.

L-57 And then, again, we find out that resurrection only comes when it serves God's purpose. If it doesn't serve God's purpose, no matter how beautiful it is, how--how pretty it looks, and how much better it might look than some other Seed that is germitized, it'll never rise. It lives this, and that settles it. But if It's germitized, It must rise again.

L-58 So is it, my friends, we here this afternoon, to see what death has done to our brother. It's got to be germitized. We might belong to church. We might be fine people. We might be a--a good character in the neighborhood; a fine father, mother, son, daughter. But unless we are germitized with the Spirit of God, we'll never rise in the resurrection. It's finished.


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