<TITLE>07. Par 59-71</TITLE>L-59   It speaks to us of these things. Nature calls out, day by day. And the sun rises and sets. The moon and stars come out, the same thing. Everything in nature revolves in one thing: death, burial, resurrection; death, burial, resurrection. Every day of our life, something is testifying to us: death, burial, resurrection.

L-60 We walk over the top of it, many times. Let's not do that. That's not why it was set here, and the world set in order like that. It's for Eternal Life, that we know. And seeing upon the seeds, that they're not germitized and serve the purpose of God, it cannot rise. Neither will we rise, though we be good people, though we be church members, though we be gallant neighbors, fine people, educated, smart. Science tells what has been. Science can't give life.

L-61   Life belongs to God, alone, and He's the only One handles life. So we must come to that place, to be germitized by the Word of God, or we will never rise again. Our--our--our life is totally finished when--when we finish this life here, that does it, altogether, if we're--if we're not germitized by the--by the Word of God, or by the Life of God.

L-62   Now, this little, cold frame laying here, none of us can say but what he's part of this great economy of God's creation. He is part of God's creation. He's a man, a human being that God created. He lays, sleeping now. Now, the thing of it is, if he served God's purpose in his life, then there's got to be a resurrection for Garnett. There's no way of getting around it. This is not the end of Garnett.

L-63 Well, we've all got to take this route through life. We come in from the darkness and enter the same way. And every one of us, some way or other, are going through the shadow, the valley of the shadows of death. But the thing we're put here for, there is...

L-64   Like the world. Jesus said, "You cannot serve God and mammon." Mammon is the "world." Can't serve God and world at the same time.

L-65 We have our choice. We can be germitized by God, by His Holy Spirit, and we have Eternal Life. If we don't, when we die, that's it. We're ready for the Judgment then, why we didn't do it, then the punishment. It follows that, for rejecting It.

L-66 But, I am so happy, as far as I know, within the reach of my understandings, by the Word of God and by the witness of the Holy Spirit, this boy met that condition. He was born of the Spirit of God, a changed man. The Spirit of God was upon the little fellow. He was a staunch Christian. He served God's purpose. Maybe it was for a short time.

L-67   But God sometimes train men for years, to get a few days of service out of him. John the Baptist was thirty years, by himself, in the wilderness, for six months of service. Jesus Christ was thirty years old, for three years of service, for the crucifixion. God trains men, brings them up. It's His purpose. Time is with man. Eternity is with God.

L-68 I believe that God brought this little boy here on the earth for a purpose.

L-69 And if you noticed, right in the time of his--his sickness and things, this struck him for a purpose. God could have made the boy sound and well. But what did He do instead of taking his life? He let him get up just where he wasn't going to die.

L-70 And neither did polio kill him. He didn't die by polio. No other disease killed him, that we prayed over, he and I, and the rest of the Christians here around Campbellsville, that prayed for him. It never. That never did it. See?

L-71 It was Garnett's time to go. He must. He had served his purpose. He come to Christ, been germitized. What if he would have died before this time? Polio drove him to God. He was to be a tobacco auctioneer, what he had in his mind. That wasn't his purpose, at all. We knew that. His purpose was to be a Christian.


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