<TITLE>12. Par 105-115</TITLE>L-105   You know what? He had a purpose in saving me. He had a purpose in saving you. And I am determined, by His will, to do His will. The reason He done it, I don't know why He done it.

L-106 "Not add to It or take from It!" As I said, Revelation 22:19 said don't do it. If He's our absolute, it cannot be otherwise. There is no way for it to be otherwise. He's got to be the absolute, the last Word.

L-107 You know, there were millions in sin when I got saved. He had a purpose in saving me. I'm the oddball amongst the brethren, many time; believes in predestination, seed of the serpent, baptism in the Name of Jesus Christ, and all these other things that seems to be... and the visions, and the power of Christ returned back, and condemning organizations and things. I'm the oddball, but He had a reason to save me, a purpose for doing it. He saved me when there was millions of others in sin, but He saved me for some reason. There were educated man, there were smart man, there were theologians, there were bishops and doctors, and so forth, in the field, when he saved me, but He saved me for some reason.

L-108   And I see the Word is the absolute, and I'm tied to It, and determined I'll know nothing else but Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. He had a reason for it, and I'm determined to hold that reason. No matter what anybody else says, I don't disfellowship them or discredit them, but I know what I'm tied to. He wanted me like this. He had me like this. I was made like that for a purpose. I had to be made up of all these qualities, and so forth, and all these no-accounts, so He could dig it out of me; put something in there, that was His Word. And I'm determined I'll know nothing else but Christ.

L-109   Christ's death was an absolute. It was an absolute. It was the end of all fear to them that was scared of death. His death is an absolute, then.

L-110 People fear death. Even Job feared death. But when he saw the vision! He knew everything was gone; his family, his--his children. Even his wife had turned against him, because his--his stench of his--of his boils; he sat out of his house, on an ash heap, scrapping his--his boils. And his wife even said, "Why don't you curse God, and die the death?"
He said, "Thou speakest like a foolish woman." See?

L-111 Then when Elihu talked to him. Some of these days, I want to break that name down for you, Elihu, and show you it was Christ.

L-112 When he had this condition, and everything was gone against him, then he saw the vision of the Just One. He wanted to find a Man Who could stand in the breech for him; put His hands on a sinful man and a Holy God, and stand in the way. And God let him see It, four thousand years away. It was his absolute. He raised up and shook hisself. Hallelujah!

L-113 When a man is scared of dying, raise up and shake yourself, look into the Word and see what the vision of God is.

L-114   He seen that vision, he said, "I know my Redeemer liveth, and at the last days He'll stand upon this earth. And I am tying myself to it! Though the skin worms destroys this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God; Whom I shall see for myself. I'm tied to it," he said. He saw it. It was a promise of God.

L-115 He looked through the laws of nature. As I was telling you about the continuity of the law of nature, the continuity of the Word, the continuity of God's action, everything is continuity. He had asked, in Job 14. He said, "There is hope in a tree, if it dies; the flower, if it dies; and so forth. But," said, "man layeth down, and giveth up the ghost, he wasteth away. His sons come to honor him, he perceive it not. Oh," then he said, "if Thou will hide me in the grave, hide me away and keep me in the secret place, till Thy wrath be passed!" He was scared of death.


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