<TITLE>04. Par 31-39</TITLE>L-31   All these natural happenings, now, they forerun spiritual happenings. Each happening accompanies the other happening, only it improves it.
You say, "What's like that?"

L-32 Well, something like a spiritual Life, when it comes into the natural life, it improves the natural life. It, It makes you in a better condition than you was in the natural life.

L-33 When the leaf is getting old and dies, when it comes back with the life again in the resurrection, to testify in another year, it comes back in a better condition than it did when it went down. See, everything testifies of these things.

L-34   Now let's take, for instance, the achievement that man has been able to do on earth. In all of these natural achievements now... I want your undivided attention now. The... All the natural achievements has happened in the earth, has been forerunners of spiritual achievements that God has done by His church.
All the natural things are a type of the spiritual things.
Now you say, "How is that?"

L-35 Let's take, for one, transportation. First, the transportation was by horse. The next, it was by automobile. Then science built us an airplane. And, but, you see, it is a... First, was one horsepower. The car was maybe twenty horsepower. The airplane goes up to hundreds of horsepower. See what it is? It's just as we come on with the horse, then an automobile was made, then the next thing was an airplane. We just keep achieving on, higher and higher, going greater and greater. This is the achievement of science. This is a forerunner of the spiritual things that's happened, of God, by His Spirit, has been in His promised Word.

L-36   The natural man, by the knowledge, looks backward for his achievement; that's science, see to what God has done in a former creation. They go out and pick up clods, and get pieces of rocks and fossils, and--and elements, and ties them together. See, on that achievement, they are taking what God has done, and perverting it from its original estate, and making his living quarters, and so forth, and his economy a little better, by what has been created. That's in the natural achievement, by man.

L-37 But God, in the spiritual achievement, is going forward, not going backward. He is going forward, looking into the Word, and believing the promises for things that never has come yet, for the spiritual revelations to manifest the spiritual things that God has promised. He sees them come to pass. Just as the scientist in his laboratory are working on different things to help man, taking creation; the spiritual man is looking forward to something that God promised, that has never yet been created. The natural man looks backward. The spiritual man looks forward.

L-38 That's the way, they got--got that in the church. The natural church member looks back to what Finney, Sankey, Knox, Calvin. That was all right, but that was their day. We are looking forward for something else, the promise that's greater and higher, and what God has promised. Science goes back, to pick it up. We go forward, in the Word of the Lord, to find what God has achieved.

L-39   In these two things, one foreruns the other, or types it. Now as science has been able to achieve a more horsepower, as he did by taking the power and making greater instruments, the autos and airplanes; God has achieved from this same manner, as each one of those type. Now watch.


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