<TITLE>05. Par 35-44</TITLE>L-35   And we're seeing God, from every section of denominations, all the way from Catholicism, through all the protestant churches, Buddhas and whatmore, from India, and whatever more. He's calling His people together, assembling them together. And I'm--I'm very happy for that, to see this day coming. Now we... It's--it's a great day, one of the greatest privileges.

L-36 That, if I had to, if I would have knowed before there was a world, when we were souls a part of God, that we are, for we were with Him before the foundations of the world. Because, there's only one form of Eternal Life, and that's God. And we're a part of Him. We was not so much that we would know and--and could think, and had a being; but we were in His thoughts of what we were, before the foundation of the world. Because, we are a part of Him, like my son is part of me, and I am part of my father, and so forth. We are sons and daughters of God, by His foreknowledge.

L-37 And back there, if I could have known as I know now, and could have looked over the whole span of time, and He would have said to me, "What time do you want to live?" I'd have said this time right now, just the eve of the--the ending up of world history, and the oncoming of the Kingdom of God to be established in the earth. I think it's the most glorious time of all ages, is right now.

L-38   We find out here that Israel is accused by the prophet, when God had ordained him and sent him out. They were accused of two major sins. And we want to talk on those two things that they had done. And, from that, we want to prosper by it. Now, they had turned from God, the Fountain of living water, and had hewed themselves out cisterns. They had turned from the thing that God had given them, and had hewed themselves something that they had did themselves. And these cisterns, you notice, he had, they had broken and they were leaking.

L-39   Now, a broken cistern cannot hold water. It will leak out. I was raised on a farm, and I know what an old cistern is, and the difficult we have with it.

L-40 And this leaking cistern is a--a very fine picture, I think, of this day, that when (our) everything that we have tried to do, to get man together, get people together, get churches together, it has become always in the realm of intellectual tryings. We have tried to make all the Methodists become Baptist, and vice versa, and the different denominations. And that was not God's program, to begin with.

L-41   God only has one meeting place. He said over there in the Book of Exodus, that, "I have chosen the place to put My Name, and that's the only place that I'll meet people." And He had chose a place to put His Name. And where He put His Name, that's where He met Israel. He has got a place that He meets His church today, and He chose that Name, and that Name is Jesus Christ. And there is where He meets the true believer, when he is in Jesus Christ. That's where God chose to put His Name.
You say, "God's Name?"

L-42 He said, "I came in My Father's Name." So that's where God put His Name, was in Christ. And in Christ is where we can all meet under the shed Blood, and there have real, true fellowship.

L-43   God made His program at the beginning, in the garden of Eden, where the place He would meet man, and that wasn't upon intellectual understandings; if it had, Eve was exactly in line with His program. But we know that her accepting Satan's intellectual conception, "Surely, God will not," but God said He would! And so then He chose the place of redemption, and it was by Blood, and not by intellectual conception.

L-44 So we're only beating the air, but it's just human nature that--that people will try to--to do that. If we had time, we could break it down in many pieces, but I don't want that button. So we'll just try to make it as simple as possible, "leaking cisterns." And we find that it's--it's absolutely happened again, it's a very picture of our age that we're living in, of all of our trying.


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