<TITLE>05. Par 45-50</TITLE>L-45   God is sovereign. When He... Who, who could tell God how to make things, in the beginning, when there was just He alone? See? And if we have Eternal Life, there is only one form of Eternal Life, and that's God. So if we have Eternal Life, we were with God right then, a part of God. We were His attribute. We are now His attribute. And, because, "In the beginning was the Word." And a word is a thought expressed. So we were His thoughts, then expressed into word and become what we are. That's the reason our names, maybe not what we have now, but our names were put on the Lamb's Book of Life before the foundation of the world. See? And if it wasn't there then, it'll never be there. See? And Jesus come to redeem all those, that's, whose names were on that Book. See, He knowed.

L-46   "The potter," as Romans 8 tells us, "who can tell the potter? Can the clay say, 'Make me thus, thus'?" See? No. God has to display all of His attributes. And so He has to make one vessel of dishonor, and the other one to honor, to show that one up, of course. Now, but He is sovereign, you see, nobody can tell Him what to do.

L-47 And He makes us different. Even we're told, in the Bible, that the stars different one from another, one star differents from another. You know, there is a difference in Heaven, in Angels, Angelic beings; there is Angels, there is Cherubims, there is Seraphims, and their--their difference There. And we are all different. And God has big mountains, He has plains, prairies, grass, desert, water. See, He's--He's different, He's a--He's a--a God of variety. And look at His people here this morning, some of us white, some black, some brown, some yellow, some red; see, it's--it's His people. He's a... He's--He's a God of variety, and so I think He has the same thing among His ministers.

L-48   Now let us bow our heads just a moment, for prayer. And I might say this now before we read the Word. I know that if I'm just a little long, and you have to get up and go out, I'll understand, see, I'll perfectly understand. Now let us pray. And while we're praying, with our heads bowed towards the dust from which God took us, is there someone here would like to be remembered in prayer, just raise your hand. He, He knows right what's in your heart, beneath that hand.

L-49   Dear Heavenly Father, we are solemnly approaching Thee, with our heads turned to the dust from where You have took us. And then in our minds we are thinking that You told Abraham, one night, could he "number the sands that was upon the seashores?" And then You told him to "look towards the stars," and could he "number them?" Of course, it was impossible. And You told him that his "seed would be innumerable, and as the sands on the seashore, and on the stars that light the heavens." Now our minds, our thought, our thoughts in our minds, rather, as we bow our heads towards the sand where we come from; then our hearts look towards Heaven, where we are going. From sand to stars, being Abraham's Seed! Dead in Christ, we are Abraham's Seed, and heirs with Him according to the promise."

L-50 And we have come here this morning to fellowship around the natural foods of life, which we have taken, to get that out of the way. And now we are desirous of Thee to give us of that Heavenly Manna, that Food that would give us strength in the Life that's in us. As the blood carries away this food now, to strengthen it, to make more cells, to build us strong for the day; may we receive of Christ, that He might get into our spirits, this morning, through the Word, and--and strengthen us for the hour that we're living in. Cause, the day is far spent and the evening shadows are falling, the evening Light is here, and we are soon listening for the summons to "come on High," and we are wanting to be ready at that hour. So, help us, Father.


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