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Christ came and called the Church to repentance, baptism in the Name of Jesus Christ, for the remission; sanctify the Church; and with the Fire of God come down and burn out all the filth, and come and dwells in the human heart. Now, the world, to be redeemed for this redeemed person, He uses His same method. He baptized it in water, after the antediluvian destruction. Shed His Blood upon it, to sanctify it and claim it. It's His. Satan tried to say, “I’ll give it to You.”  He said, “No, sir, I’ll buy it.” Let it be a witness. He was lifted up, for an ensign, that He bought it. He purchased it. ~ 64-0802 FUTURE HOME

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This is a very familiar theme to many of us. God takes the earth through the same plan of redemption that He uses to call His Bride. The final stage of the earth is a new heavens and earth that have been renovated and the complete evidence of sin removed. There is no more sickness, sin, disease, in other words, it is restored back to God’s original thought. If that is the final stage of redemption for the earth, then what about us? Shouldn’t the Baptism of the Holy Ghost in the end time, when the Lamb has taken the Book of Redemption, put us into a condition with an eternal perspective? I believe that is exactly what was being taught in “Future Home” and why that message has been so important to me.

But the Son was the... Not eternal sonship, but the Son that was with the Father in the beginning was the Logos that went out of God. And it was the Theophany of God that went out, the human form that didn't have eyes like you see: a better eye. It didn't have ears like you hear, but a far more hearing. See? It was a Theophany, that all this rainbow condescended into a--a Theophany. Moses saw It when It passed through the rock like that. He saw the back parts, said, "It looked like a man." ~ 57-1002  QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON HEBREWS 2

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We walk by faith and not by sight. It doesn’t mean we close our eyes, but it means we walk by the influence of another eyesight. Faith is a seeing, a knowing the Mind of Christ that comes from the Logos revelation. Do I understand it, or do I just believe it. It is the result of the fullness of the Word being waved before the believer in the hour we live.

So I believe this with all my heart. I believe that we're nearing the age that when people are going to recognize these things. That we've had so much vain philosophy, and so forth, and teachings that ought not to be, until it has set the human mind to a revolution of thinking on matters of this and that, and taking it away from the Word of God. As I've said, faith doesn't come by fasting. Faith doesn't come by praying, reading a book. All of that's good: fasting, praying, and reading--reading a book. But faith comes by a--a settled something that's in the human tonight... When you come home, you told your wife you'd be home after the service was over, you do that unconsciously. You just go out and get in your car and go on home. Now, you could not do it, unless you have faith you could do it. You'd never move from where you're setting, if you didn't have faith you could raise up. But you've done it so much, and you just become so accustomed to those laws, till it's a natural thing. ~ 55-0113  THE FUNDAMENTAL FOUNDATION FOR FAITH

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“Faith doesn’t come by praying, reading a book.” Simple faith is a knowing. You just know. Faith is getting your memory back. It comes because you hear the Voice of God and it stimulates a spiritual knowing, something that you are. You hear that something familiar and it sounds like the place you came from. You may not be able to explain it but you know.

"And anoint thine eyes with eyesalve that thou mightest see." He does not say that you have to buy this eyesalve. Oh no. There is no price tag on the Holy Spirit. ~ PG 352-3     LAODICEAN CHURCH AGE  -  CHURCH AGE BOOK  CPT 9

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This is such a simple statement, yet it is so profound. It reminds me of Jesus telling Peter, “flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven” (Matt 16:17). Jesus had told the Laodicean Church to “buy of me gold…and white raiment”, yet the ability to see is not something you have to obtain. Peter didn’t have the Holy Ghost, but “My Father which is in heaven” gave him a revelation. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing BY, not OF, the Word of God. He that hath an ear, let him hear. When you recognize that this is Eagle food, you have heard from your Theophany.

17   So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.    18   But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world. ~ ROMANS 10:17-18

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What is the origin of faith in the individual? Faith is a revelation, and more specifically, a revelation of the Mind of God Himself. Paul tells us that “faith comes by hearing, and hearing the Word of God”. Many people hear, but do they really hear? The Bible tells us “He that HATH and ear, let him hear”. The implication is that some do not have the ear to hear. When Paul says, “and hearing BY the Word of God”, he is saying that it is the Word of God, the Logos seed of God that you are, that gives you an ear to hear, and when that Word is heard it produces faith, the Mind of Christ in you. Obviously the more you hear, the more faith is grown in you. Your natural, or rather supernatural hunger will lead you to the spiritual nutrition your election is groaning for.

18   Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.   19   Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,   20   By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; ~ HEBREWS 10:18-20

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“Now WHERE (something that has been applied) remission of these is…” Paul is talking about the removal of sin and the privilege it brings. There must be an application of the sacrifice of Calvary, and once applied It allows us entrance into the Holy Place, or the eternal thought of God. You cannot enter by your own life, no matter how clean and pure you think you can make yourself. The only entrance is by the Token life of Christ, a new and living way. This is a change born in you, bringing a faith sight that you never had before. Now you see things in a reality way and not by the shadow you have been accustomed to.

Faith is something that you; it's absolutely; it's not just what you imagine; it's--it's a--it's a reality. Many people... I say this with humble humility, because I--I may never be--see you all again from tonight. There probably is people here I'll never see again in my life. But I say that eighty percent of the people that comes to the platform, doesn't know what faith is. They have a hope, but not faith. But "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." ~ 51-0729E  THE SECOND MIRACLE

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Faith IS a reality. The word  “substance” in Hebrews 11:1 means the reality behind the expression. Hebrews 1:3 says Jesus is “the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His Person”. The word “Person” is the same word as substance in Heb 11. What is more real, the expression, or the reality that caused the expression? Faith is the reality that causes the expression. Now, apply faith to whatever your need is, including a rapture or change. Most times we think reality follows faith, but faith IS the reality. It is the expression that follows.

3   Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?  4   He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. ~ PSALM 24:3-4

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Who has clean hands but Christ? Who has a pure heart but Christ? Whose soul, or life, has not been lifted up to vanity but Christ? Psalm 24 is a psalm about the resurrection and rapture. When we lift up our Head, which is Christ, the King of Glory shall come in. Who is the King of Glory? The Lord strong in battle. Christ has taken possession of His Temple. He has claimed those purchased in the Book of Redemption and the Seals being opened by the Lamb is proof that the Token is now in existence for His possessed People.

11   Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.   12   Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;   13   And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed. ~ HEBREWS 12:11-13

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While correction is not fun, Paul describes the most beautiful result. It is like a flower unfolding. We receive correction because Christ is not preeminent. It is a way of bringing a focus that cleans the branches and allows them to be used. Didn’t Jesus say the branches were purged to bring forth more fruit. The result of that purging causes the hands and knees to “lift up”. It causes the feet to walk. It will even cause the lips to move, even as you “take no thought”. Why? So that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.