<TITLE>03. Par 15-23</TITLE>L-15 I think that's a whole lot like today, that many times we'll accept some of the things that Jesus has said, but not all the things that He said. People sometimes get, say, "Well, we believe This, but we don't believe This." Well, you can't believe This without believing This. See, you've got to believe It all. It's either all God, or it isn't any God. And so it all must be fitted in right, in its place.

L-16   And as I said last evening, God has lotted that, His Scripture, from the beginning, before there was any time, when He was Eternal. He all... He is the Eternal One, and then these things that's happening now are only the attributes of God's thinking. At first, it has to be a thought, and then a Word. And a Word, when a thought expressed, is a word. And then, It spoken, It has to happen. And the whole thing is God unfolding Himself in His attributes, and then God being made material, tangible, that we can talk to, speak with, in His whole Church Body and everything.

L-17 Therefore, your name was in His thinking. That's how you have Eternal Life. You can't have It no other way. If you got Eternal Life, you always was. See? You, if otherwise, you just can't say, "Well, I belong to church, I do this." No, sir. Eternal Life never had a be-... Anything that was Eternal never did begin and cannot end. So you were only in His thinking, your name, who you are and what you are. That's the only way you could ever have Eternal Life, 'cause you always was.

L-18   And those, no matter what they are, they are Eternally dead, they were dead from the beginning. The Bible said, "The woman that lives in pleasure is dead while she is alive." Right. See, she's always been dead. She's dead in sin and trespasses.

L-19 And now if you were in the quickening, at His beginning, that's what He come to redeem. And your name was put on the Lamb's Book of Life, in His thinking, at the beginning. And He come to redeem all names that's in that Book; no more, not one more; just what was in There. When the last name is redeemed, He takes His Book and claims what He has redeemed.

L-20 Now, and what a--a strange thing it would be if we couldn't believe all that's written in the Scripture, for the whole thing is God's Word. It's all inspired, every bit of It, and we believe every bit of It.

L-21   Now this glorious scene that we have before us, tonight, is Jesus up from the dead, in a springtime, walking around. Up from the spring, the resurrection, the first Flower to rise from the dead, our Lord Jesus! He was the First Fruits of them that slept. The Easter Flower that come up, the first One that stuck Its head up after the cold midnight of darkness and sin; He had paid the sin price, and God raised Him up on the third day. We believe that with all of our heart, that God raised Him up on the third day, according to His promise. And we believe it according to the Scripture, that He raised Him up, the third day. He was the first One that raised up from the dead, the First Fruits of the ones that slept.

L-22   And to think of it, that great distress through the four thousand years that the world had groped in sin, and knowed not the way out, here He is back from the dead! What a time, a springtime! The church ought to a-been singing the glorious hallelujahs. But instead of that, they were mooping around, sad and everything, because they failed to believe all He said.

L-23 And that's the same thing it is tonight, because they fail to believe all He said and promised. That's what, the church is in such a condition tonight, that it's in, it's because we have failed to believe all that He said He would do. All the Scriptures that pertains to Him, we fail to believe It all. We bang It around, mix It up, and put something else to It.


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