<TITLE>08. Par 63-73</TITLE>L-63 He makes men different. He gives us, each one, a different place. And a palm tree can never be a hickory. A hickory tree can never be a palm. Nobody can take your place, and you shouldn't try to take anybody else's place. Because, you are an individual, to God, and God has a purpose for you. He made you thus. You say, "Why did He do it?" He is sovereign. He's got a reason for it being that way.
But we find out that we're all guarded by the Word.

L-64   In heaven, we look at the celestial bodies. The Bible says that even one star differents from the other. There is Sirius and the different ones. And Mars and Jupiter, all those different ones, they different one from the other. The sun differents from the moon, and the moon from the stars. And there is Angels, such as, there is Seraphims and Cherubims, and Angels and great Angels, in--in degrees. And even in the new world to come, the kings of the earth bring their honor into the city.

L-65 We're always going to be that way. Because, God is not a Sears and Roebuck Harmony House. He is a God of variety. He makes one one way, and one another. But we must serve Him in the way that God made us, and be glad, and stay behind His Word. And that's the way God did it.

L-66   But when we find out that the enemy got through that Word, to this, the handiwork of God, he marred it. And that's exactly what he's doing now. He is slipping through that handiwork, the enemy is, trying to make us a World Council of Churches. And man has... Why, man can't even agree with one another, how we going to make a whole world agree with a man? And as soon as you do that...

L-67 We got One we must keep in harmony with, that's God. "And in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." And the Word remains God, and always will be God, because God is in the Word. "And the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us," in the Person of the Son of God.

L-68   Now we find out, that, after He found this great marring. Looked like, had it been you and I, and we'd put all that time and effort, we'd have kicked the thing over and just let it go. But, not God. He was not willing to let His work go to ruin. That's the love of God. No wonder the poet said:
Would we with ink the ocean fill,
And were the skies of parchment made;
And every stalk on earth a quill,
And every man a scribe by trade;
Write the love of God above
Would drain the ocean dry;
Or could the scroll contain the whole,
Though stretched from sky to sky.

L-69   See the love of God! After man had fallen and deliberately opened the door to the enemy, and come in and marred him, and set death in him, still God was not willing this be defeated. He came down and started all over again. He was going to make that man again.

L-70 He put Adam on a covenant, "Do this, and not this; this, and not that; touch not, handle not, taste not."

L-71 But we find out, when He started again, He started with--with Abraham. And in Abraham He started him on an unconditional covenant. Not "if you will." I have. I've already done it. I've blessed you, you and your seed, and so forth, after you." It was an unconditional covenant. He started with Abraham, His workmanship again, and now with His unconditional covenant. Then, when we find out, He based on Abraham and give him the covenant, unconditional, with the promise.

L-72   Then He came to the patriarchs, we come next, in the Old Testament, as we go down. Here he displayed the foundation of his work. Now we have Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph; the four patriarchs.

L-73 Now, Abraham represented faith work, faith, 'cause Abraham was a faith. He had the great faith, because, "He staggered not at the promise of God, through unbelief. When, we'd say, "the chips is down," and everything against him, he still held on to God.


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