<TITLE>08. Par 71-84</TITLE>L-71   He's Eternal, and He's the only source of Eternal Life there is, is in God, our Father. He's Eternal, Himself. Now, therefore, if we have Eternal Life, we have part of God in us, and God in us. If He isn't... Then, that's the only way you could have Eternal Life. It isn't something that was manufactured, then given to you by some creed, or you lived into it, you grew into a better man or a better woman. It's God Himself in you. Just like you're a part of your father here on earth; you're a part of your Heavenly Father. And what you are, you're the attribute of His thoughts of you before the foundation of the world. You're expressed. He had to breed it in, and everything, to get what you are, to make you what you are. Then when we was completed, then this here...

L-72   So many people ride life's road, looking through a rear-view mirror. Especially, I don't mean to say this to hurt feelings, but many of our women, they're always, when past about thirty years old, they want to go back and--and be a young girl again. And get fifty, they still want the same thing. Not only that, but the men, too. But anybody who looks through a rear-view mirror, is going to wreck up, somewhere. You can't drive the road, through, looking through the rear-view mirror.

L-73 But I believe what Paul said, "Forgetting those things that are in the past, I press towards the mark of the high calling in Christ." See? Don't look what you were; look what you're going to be.

L-74   I--I was remarrying an old couple, one time. They had taken their vows over. They was eighty-three and eighty-four years old, apiece. Had give them the full vow. And I--I felt crazy, just a young fellow as I was then, trying to... Old man had been married about sixty years, him and his wife, and they was taking the vow. And they were just as much in love as they ever was.

L-75 And he had a long beard. And I said to him... I said to her, I said, "What do you think about it?" Well, I asked him first. I said, "What do you think about, why you wear a long beard?"

L-76 He said, "I think an old man my age should have a long beard."
I said to her, "What do you think about it?"
She said, "Well," she said, "anything John does is just fine."

L-77 So, and--and I said, "Well, there's quite a difference in you since you married her."

L-78 Said, "You know, the Lord has been good." Said, "She's just as pretty as she ever was." Said, "You know, as she gets older, my sight gets dimmer."

L-79 So I--I thought that was--that was really sweet. I hope my wife thinks the same thing. And I feel we all feel that way about it. So, but, they--they had found life. They had found how to live it, you see.

L-80   It isn't what we say, "We'd all like to go back," us older people, "go back to sixteen, or eighteen, twenty years old, something like that."

L-81 But remember that we growed and lived to that age. And then why, taking the same food, we're dying now, when it all makes blood cells just the same? Science can't prove it. It's an appointment with God. When you got that age, God said, "That's what I want now." Death set in on it.

L-82 But, see, in the resurrection, there'll be no memory at all of the old age. We go back to that for Eternity, for all the time. So why would you look back to that, to have to live this miserable thing over? Well, look right there, ahead of you lays the new creature in Christ, the new body, the immortal one that'll never pass away, never get old, never have a sickness or heartache. Then, look, keep looking ahead of you like that, for His Coming.

L-83   Now, "In the beginning, the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." That was Jesus Christ. He was the Word of God.

L-84 Now, God is going to judge the world someday. We know that. And now many people think, they have their ideas of what He'll judge the world by.


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