<TITLE>07. Par 52-62</TITLE>L-52   Remember, there's only one form of Eternal Life, and our... even our names and our thoughts were with God before there was a foundation of the world. Because now we possess Eternal Life. And to be that, we have to be a part of God. So we'd have to be as much as in His thoughts, 'cause we have Eternal Life, and was predestined to this life. "And our names were put on the Lamb's Book of Life before the foundation of the world," according to Revelations. Now, that God had us in His thinking, then we have Eternal Life, 'cause then He spoke us, and we come into existence. And a word is just a thought manifested. God had us, in the beginning, in His thoughts.

L-53   Now, and when he made Adam, that first man, how perfect it was. He looked like God. God, the great Holy Spirit, brooding over the earth, and He... the birds come out, maybe, and the animals, different things, and kept coming more in the form of the One that was brooding. Until, finally, there come up a specie just exactly like the One that was doing the brooding, God. God was, or... Man was made in the image of God, then, when He placed him in this great garden. Like Michelangelo has placed his great life's work, and all great sculptors; God placed His handwork in the garden of Eden, made him a helpmate. What a--a--a complete satisfaction it was to God, till even He rested. It was just at rest. His work had been finished.
Then the sad story comes, of the enemy.

L-54   Now notice. This one thing I want you to bear in mind, that God gave this man a protection, He gave him. He fortified him inside of His Word, because He told them what they could do, what they could not do.

L-55 And that's the same basis we're set on today, what we can do, what we cannot do. No matter how good we are, how much we go to church, or do this, we got to be born again. See? It must be.

L-56 And God told Adam what he could do and what he could not do. He placed him behind His Word.

L-57 And then the enemy come in, by deceit, and crawled through the walls of God's Word, 'cause the door was open to him, and he marred that image, to sin. That's one of the saddest stories.

L-58   To think, that the man that was made in the image of his Creator, and was given a wall to stand behind, that that Word could never fail. That's--that's the Christian's hope. It's his--his shield. It's his armor. It's his rock today, is, stay behind the Word; every believer.

L-59 Now, you must never get from behind That. When you do, you, you're opening the door to the enemy, when they say, "Oh, well, you can do a little of this, and a little of that." God wants you to separate yourself from everything that's called sin. Completely set aside for Him, and for He only.

L-60 He has a purpose in your life, each individual, that no one else on the face of the earth can take your place. God has got something for you. You're made like that. You was did that way for a purpose. God is sovereign in His work. He even... Things different. We different, one from another.

L-61   We notice in the animal life. We find out, in the animal life, there's one animal, God made a beast of burden, like the horse, and--and he has to work. And the cow is a sacrifice. And, but, the--the lion and the tiger roams the forest without any labor or anything. He made a great big animal like an elephant, then made a little bitty fellow like a mouse. Now, who is there to tell God what to do and how to do it? He does it his own way.

L-62 And He makes the mountains. He makes the deserts. He makes the--the seas. He makes the plains. He makes one kind of tree, hard wood, palm, and--and so forth. He does it.


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