<TITLE>09. Par 80-90</TITLE>L-80   The Word of God is testifying for Garnett. The Word of God said, "We that are alive and remain to the Coming of the Lord shall not prevent or hinder those which are asleep. For the trumpet of God shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall rise first; and we which alive and remain shall be caught up together with them, to meet the Lord in the air." "He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live." The Scriptures! "I am the resurrection and Life," saith God. See? You'd have to testify against the Word of God. The Word of God is testifying for this boy. And what's any more sufficient than God's Own Word? Which, He is His Word. The Word is God. And God, Himself, is testifying that Garnett will rise. Garnett will rise up again.

L-81 All creation! We'd have to say, "The sun don't rise. No, God made a mistake. The sun, we don't see the sun." See? It'd be an insane thing.

L-82   The sun says he'll rise again. The flower says he'll rise again. The Word says he'll rise again. Every nature, all creation, says he'll rise again. Earth, turning, says he'll rise again, everything that you see. Even to the Word of God! The only... The Holy Spirit, within my bosom and other Christian believers here, is pulsating now with faith, that says he'll rise again.
And you'll go over your faith, you go over the Word of God, you go over creation, you go over everything, see, saying he won't rise.

L-83 This is not the end of Garnett. This is the end of his purpose on life on--on earth, but he'll rise again. See? The whole thing: he will rise again. So what are we, what's our worry?

L-84   Course, we hate to see that young fellow laying there like that, just look like in the prime of life. But you know when God... When you take a flower out of your flower garden, you don't always take the old ones. Sometimes you have to have a bud, a bud has to serve your purpose in a bouquet. Maybe God wanted a bud. And that's what He picked on here, for a bud for His altar in Glory; with a guarantee, of everything testifying that he will rise again. Our faith says he rise again. The Word says he rise again. The moon says he rise again. The stars says he'll rise again. The sun, the flowers, the nature, everything says he rises again.

L-85 Because, all that knowed Garnett, knowed this, that he was a Christian. You couldn't come in his presence without knowing there had been a change in that boy. He had been germitized by Life.

L-86   My prayer is that we who are alive, this afternoon, will see the example of what--of what God does, and will prepare. And if we don't, do not have this germ of Eternal Life, knowing that we have to go the same route that he goes, let us get germitized. Let us receive Christ into our hearts and be born again. Because, brother, sister, each one of us faces this, no matter who you are, how much business you're in, how young or how old, you've got to meet it. You've got to meet it. And don't--don't dare try to do it without being first germitized by Christ, that you have Eternal Life.

L-87   Then, death is swallowed up in victory. Garnett shall rise again. All nature... Now, in the neighborhood, everybody knowed that boy. Everybody ever come in contact with him knows he was a Christian. Now, the Word of God and all nature says he'll rise again.

L-88 His mother, his father, all his relation, whatever it might be, you people here that's looking upon him; as a minister of the Gospel, as his brother, I see nothing in the Word of God or anything in nature...

L-89 Reason I chose to say this, maybe someone wouldn't go to church too much and understand it. I thought, in this way, it would make everyone understand. Just a little simple way that you look out here in nature and see what--what happened.

L-90 Garnett met God's specification. He served God's purpose. He's not dead. He's alive forevermore, just waiting some time for us to come.


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