<TITLE>11. Par 99-106</TITLE>L-99   And then if something had to die so we could live physically, how much more did something have to die so we could live Eternally! Death it takes, to do it. Bread! Seeing that Jesus said, "I am the Bread," and there's a wheat bread and He wasn't that kind of bread, so there must be two kinds of lives that's sustained by bread. It would lead us to that. There can't be... He isn't, He wasn't wheat; and He wasn't Word, He was flesh, so there must be two kinds of life. We know that wheat dies so we live physically, as I said. Jesus, the Word Bread, died, so we could live Eternally. He was the Word Bread. Now notice, keep that in mind. Now to prove Jesus' Words to be true, we see in this, in nature, how it goes.

L-100 Now let's go to the Scripture, to find out again, back up into the Scripture till we get to our main text. In the garden, God gave His first family the Word of God to live by, every Word of it. The first family that was put up here on the earth, was given Eternal Life as long as they stayed with God's Word.

L-101 That was His plan. "I am God," He says, "I change not." That's still His plan. It's never His plan for creed, or organization, or man-made rules, that man shall live by, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.

L-102   Now to go back in Genesis, which is the beginning. Genesis means "the beginning." We find that God gave His family Eternal Life as long as they stayed in this Word and lived by this Word. But when they broke it, just one link in the chain of promises, death struck them, which was a promise also.

L-103 It's a chain. You're hanging over hell with it, and that's the only thing that'll carry you through. When the believer becomes a make-believer and lives on one word that's contrary to this Word, he cuts his fellowship with God. One link broke! And, remember, your faith in this Word is like a chain. A chain is its strongest at its weakest link. That's right. It's the strongest, that, 'cause that's all it'll hold. And if there is something in the Word that's puzzling to you, something that you have heard different, but they said, "Thee? Oh, that was for the apostles, and them things was for days gone by," when the Scripture said Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever, don't let that be a weakness! Fortify It and hold It, and wrap your life into It, because that's the only thing that'll take you over the flames of hell. That's right.

L-104   When this chain is broke, with Adam and Eve, the first family, now remember, they didn't break a sentence, they didn't break three Words; one Word! Man shall hang over hell by every Word, every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. That's where man's Eternal destination is determined. Why, he'll hang by that chain, or he'll hang by a creed; or if there is creed mixed into the chain, there is where the weak link is, and you're gone. That's where the weak link was with Adam and with Eve. That weak link, "surely," he said, "God..." But surely God said it! And if God said it, God meant it. And He also keeps His Word by saying, "The day you eat thereof, that day you die." The day you put into you anything else besides the unadulterated Word of God, into your soul, that's the day that you're separated from God.

L-105 Now this is very strong, but just listen close. Now notice. One Word, one Word of the first of the Bible, God said that, "One Word, separated man from its Eternal Life Chain."

L-106 That's like taking a man and you hang him, by his feet... he's got his hands in Heaven, and you cut him half in two, break off a toe, whatever you're hanging unto. You're hanging on the very bottom part, and, you break that chain, anywhere, you're gone. Now bear that in mind.


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