<TITLE>17. Par 200-211</TITLE>L-200 Peter, on the Day of Pentecost, said, "Jesus of Nazareth, a Man approved of God among you. God was with Him."

L-201 Look in the Scriptures, what the Scriptures said would do. Jesus said, "Search the Scriptures, in Them you think you have Eternal Life. They are what testifies of Me. If you would have knowed Moses, you'd know Me, for Moses wrote that I would come, in the form that I would come in." He come as the Son of man.

L-202   He comes in three names, as God. Three (like Father, Son, and Holy Ghost), same God, it's three attributes.

L-203 Now then, also, justification, sanctification....; Luther, Martin, and--and the--and the Pentecostal; same thing: three attributes, three stations, three church ages.

L-204 Same thing: water, blood, and spirit. Oh, just as you go along, the three elements that takes you back into the body. Like it brings you from your natural birth, types your spiritual birth. The baby's born, the first thing's water, next blood, and then life. That's the way you come into the Kingdom of God, the same way. See? That's the way the Church comes in, the same way. Same thing. Now notice on these three things, God has formed His... forming His body.

L-205   Now we find that in here, that you have a right in your choice. You choose the girl you want to marry; she accepts you, all right.

L-206 Then another thing, you have a choice of whether you want to live or whether you don't want to live. You choose now between Life and death. You can live.

L-207 That boy had that choice. He was success in everything else, a religious man, but he knowed that when that... He spoke it of hisself, "I've observed all these commandments since I was a youth," but he knowed he didn't have Eternal Life. See? And he had a choice to accept It or to refuse It, and he turned It down. That was the most fatal mistake he could ever made. The rest of it wouldn't amounted. It don't, it doesn't amount, unless you take That choice.

L-208   Now let us follow him at his choosing, and see where it led him to. Now, see where he chose. Now, look, he was--he was a rich man, he was a businessman, he was a ruler, and he was a religious man. All that!

L-209 Today we'd say, "Boy, he's a genuine Methodist, or Baptist, or a Pentecostal. He--he's a real fellow, real nice boy. Fine!" Nothing you could say about him; friendly, nice, sociable, and everything. No immorals about him. He didn't probably smoke, drink, or run around to shows and dances, and whatever we'd call it today, as we would class a Christian. But that ain't Eternal Life yet! That ain't what we're talking about. He might have been loyal to his church, in which he probably was. But, you see, and what did it lead him to? Great popularity. Let's say, if he was a preacher, he could a-been... got a better church. He could a-been the state presbyter or a bishop. See? It leads you to popularity, and it led him to riches and to fame.

L-210   It might do the same thing today, you have a great talent to sing. I thought of that young man a while ago that sang that song here; how he had give that to the Devil, and now he get it back... And how different between him and Elvis Presley and some of these. Pat Boone, and a group like that, Ernie Ford, them guys, great singers; and take their talents, that God-given talents, and use it to inspire the--the works of the Devil. That's right. Some great singer selling their God-given talents for fame in this world, to become somebody. How could you become any more of a "body" than you could, to be a somebody, than to be a son of God?

L-211 I don't care if you own the whole city, the whole world, and you haven't accepted the leadership of Eternal Life by the Holy Spirit (Christ), how you going to... Who are you, anyhow? You're a dead mortal, dead in sin and trespasses! Religious as you want to be; as faithful as you want to be to the church; preacher, if you want to be in the pulpit; but to turn down, you die!


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