<TITLE>19. Par 196-206</TITLE>L-196 See, what if it was that you didn't believe? Wouldn't that be pitiful, see an unbeliever in a place where their hearts are so hard till they cannot believe at all, doomed, gone, lost, don't know nothing about it, not knowing what hour that death may knock at the door? You've got to move out into Eternity.

L-197   And Jesus said, "Except a man be born again," become as much Christian as that deer was a mother, "you'll never see God; you're done, no matter how many churches you join." He was talking to a religious leader of that day, Nicodemus, eighty-year-old man, and told him that he must be born, he must become the kind of a Christian like the deer was a mother there.

L-198 Was there one that didn't put up their hands, that really know the Presence of God, recognize It and say, "I know that I'm wrong"? When you realize you're wrong, you're recognizing the Presence of God.

L-199   But when you don't know you're wrong, the Bible said, "Thou art wretched." In this age, the church would be "wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked, and not know it."

L-200 Just think if a man or woman was on the street, wretched, blind, poor, miserable, and naked, and you could tell them that they were naked, and they would listen to you, but what if they are naked and they don't believe it? What a mental condition that is!

L-201 Well, now, that's what kind of a spiritual condition it is. People are spiritually blind, wretched, miserable, naked before God, sinners trying to cover themselves behind fig leaves of some denomination, and don't know it.

L-202 Will you raise your hand, somebody else? God bless you. That's right. The Lord bless you. Before you... Maybe you're a stranger here, have never seen God do one thing. But before you see anything, you, still you say, "I'll accept it upon the basis of the Word. I know that a greater than Solomon is here; the great Holy Spirit of God is present. I sense It. I believe It. I'll raise my hand. I'm a sinner; I will ask for salvation."

L-203   Heavenly Father, bless these who have their hands up. We ask that Your mercy be granted to those who are--are sinners. That's, maybe they belong to church. They, that still doesn't mean they're not sinners. And they raised their hands, they want to be saved. Lord, there was Something by them. They recognized the Holy Spirit there. And they--they recognized that It was God, and It was speaking to them, that, that they didn't have that experience that they should have, and they raised their hands.

L-204 You said, "He that will come to Me, I will in nowise cast out." And I know that's true. You said, in Saint John 5:24, "He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me, has everlasting Life; shall not come into the Judgment, but has passed from death unto Life. He that comes to Me, I'll give him everlasting Life, raise him up at the last days." Those are Your promises, Father.

L-205 I claim every one of them. Maybe some Christian, Lord, that's trying to walk through life, trying to live better, every day, and they--they want an experience of--of--of a better walk, they raised their hands, too. Father, I pray that You will bless them. May they find that all-sufficiency tonight in Christ, the Word made flesh among us. Grant it, Lord. I commit them to Thee, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

L-206   God bless you. And as you sit real quiet, see, just a moment; oh, my, I'm five minutes over my time now. Forgive me, I didn't aim to speak that long. I tell you, let's just wait just a moment, just give me five more minutes if you will.


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