<TITLE>08. Par 59-69</TITLE>L-59 Did you ever think what the people did? They went right on believing that Mo-... that Elias was coming. And he was right among them, and they didn't know it.

L-60 So will it be in the Coming of the Son of man! They'll do with Him just the same thing. The Spirit of God is here. Well, what are we going to do with It? Are we going to eat Manna, and so forth, and not continually move up as we grow?

L-61   Did you ever notice a seed, as Rev. Pitts was speaking a few moments ago, and how a seed goes into the ground? Many seeds are there in the ground. When God moved upon the water, with the Light, and Light brought forth. The first Presence of God, spoken Light came by God's Word. And God's Word is the only thing that still brings Light. And when the waters went back, the seed was already in the earth, and the Light only brought forth the seeds that remained with germ in them, come forth. God making His creation.

L-62 And now, on Easter morning there was another Light struck the earth, when the Holy Spirit was given. And It's given to bring Light to those Seeds that God, by His foreknowledge, knew that would be here on the earth. As He knew the first natural seed, He knows where the spiritual Seed is. Your body was laying here right then on the earth, when God first brought the earth into existence. We are a part of the earth. We were laying there. And by His foreknowledge He knew exactly who would love Him and who would serve Him, and who would not. His foreknowledge tells that. If it doesn't, then He isn't God. He can't be God without being infinite. And if He's infinite, He knows all things.

L-63   So, you see people making their blunders. They stumble at it. They run at it, and they think this and that, but it doesn't work right, we see it. But there is a working right, that's to find God's perfect will and stand in it, what God called you for.

L-64 As Brother Jack said a few moments ago about down here at the--the Pershing Square, all the confusion. One this a way, and one that way; and about the theologians, and so forth, that you want to know some theology, go down there.

L-65 I guess that's just about like it is in Hyde Park in London. I was down there, everybody has his own idea. It's a--it's a conglomeration of a modern-day world in Babylon.

L-66   But did you notice as--as Brother Pitts went on with his lovely message this morning to us? As he begin to walk out of the park, there he found a little Easter lily. "In the midst of all the confusion," as he brought it to us, "it had no way to say 'yes' or 'no.' It was a life of God shining in it, in the midst of all the confusion." It was there in its radiance, because God had ordained it to be there. In the midst of all the conflict, no one was noticing it. They didn't see the spiritual application of it.

L-67 And so is it today amongst all our great gatherings and groups, and churches and denominations, and so forth. One is pulling this way, "We must be Baptists, or be Presbyterians, must be this, that, or the other." In the midst of all of it, there is a growing flower. There is a power of God right among us, being raised right up in the midst of all of us. Let's just stop and behold it, a few minutes, and watch it this week, and see it unfold right before us. We believe God will do it. Don't you? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]

L-68   I see that we ought to be downstairs by now. So let's pray, each one of us.

L-69 Dear God, when we bow our heads in Thy Presence, we are feel that we are so insufficient to ask. But You promised us that, if we would come, You would not turn us down. And these rude statements that's just been made, by no means to be a doctrine, "one out of a million," but just to kind of remember. For You said:
... strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, that leadeth unto life, and few there will be that will find it.
For many are called, but few are chosen.


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