<TITLE>13. Par 117-127</TITLE>L-117 We have the same choice, 'cause we have to be. If God put Adam on the Word, and the Word only, then He puts us on a creed or any kind of a creed, then God is unjust in His judgment, it isn't becoming to His holiness nor His sovereignty. But it is becoming to His sovereignty to see that He puts every man on the same base. And He is God and changes not. What God does first, He forever does the same thing. He never changes His--His program. Only thing, He magnifies it, but He never changes it. The same thing continues on.

L-118   Now, Adam had a choice. And if he held to the Word, he lived. If he didn't hold to the Word, he died.

L-119 And we got the same thing. We stay with the Word, we live. "Man shall live by every Word." But if we don't, we die, we spiritually die. Oh, we can still make noise, sure, kick around, and holler and carry on, but, that, that ain't--that ain't living. That isn't living. I am a missionary. I've heard heathens kick around and holler more than we could, and profess to know gods, and things like that. They're not living. "They're dead while they are living." Bible said so. Now we find that this choice is given to us.

L-120 But he compromised to Satan's one word, then died.

L-121 And if, the beginning, which God in His grace and mercy could have bypassed all the sufferings that we've done, all these deaths of little babies, and everything, and the wars, and internals, and crucifixions, and things that we've had; if He could have bypassed it, His sovereignty of His Word would have permitted Him to bypass it, He would have been unjust if He didn't bypass it then. Do you get it? He can't bypass it. He never bypassed it for Adam, to begin with. And He won't bypass it for you or I, to begin with. We must come to that thing, the Word only. "Let every man's word be a lie, and mine be true," He said.

L-122   Now we're just looking for what day we're living in, the harvest time.

L-123 Then God, after Adam had fell (tried by the Word, and fell), God continued, in His creation, to try to find a man who would live every Word. Now look. He tried to find man, that is, live the Word for his age. Now, you see, God scattered His Word out, 'cause He could.

L-124 He is, He is infinite, and He is--He is omnipresent. Omniscient, therefore He knows all things. He can't be present everywhere. By being omniscient, knowing all things, then He can be present everywhere. Because, that's the way He predestinates us, by foreknowledge, not because He desired that this person should be saved and this one lost. But He knew who would be lost and who would be saved. See? Therefore, by His foreknowledge, He can predestinate. And He makes everything work to His glory. That's what His attributes are doing, displaying to His glory. One vessel of honor and one of dishonor, but it's God that maketh it. "Not him that willeth or him that runneth, but God that showeth mercy." See?

L-125   "No man can come to Me," said Jesus, "except my Father draws him. And all that the Father hath," past tense, "given to Me, will come to Me, to the Word." How can they come unless they were, are all, they were foreordained to come? "As many as received Him, to them give He the power to become sons of God." See, 'cause their names were on the Book, He come to redeem what was on the Book.

L-126 In Revelations, we find out, when the Seals was opened, there was a Book. And Him that sat upon the Throne, God, had It in His right hand. And there wasn't nothing, nobody, in Heaven or in earth, or anywhere, was worthy to come take the Book, or to even to look on It. John wept with great... because the whole Book of redemption was there.

L-127   It was at the meeting the other night, that little Assembly of God brother and sister sang that song, "I wonder if John saw me when he saw all the nations gathered. Did he see me?" Sure, he did, if your name was on that Book. And when...


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