<TITLE>07. Par 44-50</TITLE>L-44   Or maybe they could took some of the places of refuge, the great place like Hebron, Kadesh, or Ramoth-gilead, one of those great refuge cities, because He was to be our Refuge. If we would try to fix in our own mind, we might have took, say, "Well, now, if this great King's coming, which will be our Refuge, He should be born in one of these great memorial places of a refuge, like Ramoth-Gilead, or Kadesh, or one of those." We would have tried to fix it like that in our minds.

L-45 But, you see, God has other ways of doing things. He knows how to do things right. And now by the mind of God and the help of God, we'll try to say why that this happened, because everything works just exactly right in God's great program. And I want you people here at Phoenix, and around, to--to--to try to get This. That remember, that God knows what He's doing. See? And He takes simple means to do it by. Because, if He does something by some great outstanding something, then... God never does do things like that, He never did in all the history of the Bible. God never did deal, never did in any time, take any group of people to do anything. God takes an individual. You're the one, you, one person. And God never changes His program. Because, His first program, He must always remain with that program.

L-46   In the days of Noah, He had one man, Noah. The days that He brought Israel out, He had one man, that was Moses. We know Dathan and many of the others tried to think, well, they "had the same authority" and so forth. You know what happened to them. The days of the coming of the Lord, the days of John the Baptist, and the different ones, He has one individual He works with. And He deals with us today as one individual, not as a group. One person! It's going to be up to you and I, of how we stand before God. Because, He's dealing with you and I as individuals, not as a group that we're in, and not as the denomination church we belong to, but as you and I as individuals.

L-47   Now, Joshua, in dividing up the land, give this little spot to Judah. Many of you, I--I got some places here jotted down to where it sets at, but we're all aware of that, where it sets up in the corner. And it was just a little place that they give it, Joshua, in dividing the land, give that to the tribe of Judah.

L-48 And now when Israel come over the river of Jordan, now try to catch this, when Israel crossed over into the land, the promised land, there was a Gentile woman that we know as Rahab the harlot. And she asked for mercy, and she received mercy, she received mercy as long as she stayed under that scarlet cord. And that's the only way she could have mercy. It was a sign, a token that was given her.

L-49 We have a Token today, also, and we're safe as long as we stay under our scarlet cord, the Blood of Jesus Christ. As an individual, not a group, an individual, we each must stay under that scarlet cord of the Blood of Jesus Christ.

L-50   And then this Rahab, after she was spared, she got all of her people in, everything that was under the cord was--was saved. Just like when God in Egypt, when all was under the blood was saved. All was under the scarlet cord was saved. All under the Blood of Jesus is saved, all out from under It is lost and is ready for destruction. And we find out now, in doing this... Then we understand by history that she courted some general, I don't know his name right now, in Israel's army. And she finally married this man. And they settled up here in this, near this little place, and her son, Salmon, was the one who founded Bethlehem. See, a Gentile is connected with it to begin with, a Gentile, Rahab the harlot.


<A HREF="P8">Next Page</A>