Quotes used in the sermon "You must Die"

GOD.PERFECTING.HIS.CHURCH_ BINGHAMTON.NY SATURDAY_ 54-1204
E-58 And Elihu come down and straightened Job out. Job looked down and seen the flowers. It would die and go down; the seed would rot away; the pulp would go; the flower would go; and nothing left. And nothing was gone. When the springtime come along, there is no pulp, no petal, no seed, no nothing. It was all gone. That isn't the end of the flower. When the sun begin to shine, there was a germ of life somewhere in there. And the flower, it lived again. He said, "But man giveth up the ghost. He wastes away. Here, where is he? The son's come to mourn." See, he was talking about... He seen the flower raise again. He seen the tree raise again. He seen nature reproduce itself. But man goes into the ground and where is he? That was the question, yet man's supposed to be the image of God. So, Elihu...
And I'll put it in form so the children would understand. He said, "Job, you see, that flower never sinned. But man sinned. And it separated himself from God. But there's coming One someday, Who will stand in the breach for the man, put His hand on a sinful man and a Holy God and bridge the way."


HEAR.YE.HIM_ MIDDLETOWN.OH FRIDAY_ 58-0328
E-46 Here's something that happened not long ago. As you all know, I'm a hunter. I was a game warden for years. I've hunted around the world, Africa, India, all over the mountains. My mother's a half Indian. My conversion never took it from me. I love the woods. That's where I found God, in nature, going out in the woods, and see the little flowers. You can't hide it. Let it die. A log can fall over it and bury that little seed in there. And it'll rot and the pulp run out of it. When springtime comes, that little seed of life will work its way around that log and stick its little head up and praise God.
You can't hide real life, not over a bushel. Real life shows itself. It can't kill it. It'll live again just as sure as anything. The frost can bite the little flower, and it bow its head. They have a funeral procession. The fall rains cry and bury the little thing. It rots; the bulb goes out; the petals are gone; the seed gone, bursted open; the pulp's run out; but somewhere in there is a little germ of life that no science can find. Just let the sun go to shine and warm, the sunrise, it'll live again.

SHOW.US.THE.FATHER_ TUCSON.AZ THURSDAY_ 63-0606
E-52 Now, you people here in Arizona, you raise oranges. First it's a seed. The seed rots. The seed, corn of wheat must fall into the ground, as Jesus said about Himself. It's got to rot. And the only thing that you can do is to--to... The only way is to accept that germ of life of God's Word, God's own Life, and then rot to your own ideas. Let God do it. It's none of my business to try to figure it out. I can't figure it out. I just believe it. He never asked me to figure it out. He never did say, "Did you feel it?" He never did say, "Did you understand it?" He said, "Did you believe it?" That's what it is.

PARADOX.A_ PHOENIX.AZ V-19 N-1 SUNDAY_ 65-0117
101 How the seed falls into the ground, and it rots, and to bring forth life again. Looks like, if it was ever going to bring forth life, it'd be when it's in its perfect shape. If life was ever in it, then why wouldn't it just come forth? Put it in the ground, the life spring forth. Why does all that's around that life, all that's around that germ that no man can find, how is it that everything material around that germ has to die, so it can spring forth in a new life? But everything around it must also die and rot before it can spring forth life. PARADOX.A_ PHOENIX.AZ V-19 N-1 SUNDAY_ 65-0117
102 So is it with an individual. As long as there's any human injections, human ideas, then God's germ of Life, the Holy Spirit, cannot work. You cannot be healed as long as there's just a--a fraction somewhere, that it's not rotten yet; it's got all the human elements, all the scientific ideas, all the days of miracles is passed, so-called. All that has to, all, not only die, but rot, then from there grows the germ of Life unto a new life. That's the only way it can grow.
That's the reason we don't get what we ask for. We try to take with us so much of our own ideas. That's the reason the Lutheran church couldn't advance no farther than--than it did, the Pentecostals and the rest; 'cause they inject by a bunch of theologians, "This oughtn't to be this way. This is for another day. And this was for that." There it stays. It cannot grow to that perfect image of Christ until every Word of God is received into you, and then you become that Word, like the seed that went in the ground.

GOD.WHO.IS.RICH.IN.MERCY_ PHOENIX.AZ V-19 N-2 TUESDAY_ 65-0119
40 And we was speaking the other night on how the seed must die. And everything around that germ of life must not only die, but rot. If it doesn't rot, it cannot live. And rot is "completely done away with; it's finished." And until we get to the place that our own ideas and our own thinking is completely gone and it's rotted away from us, then the germ of life can begin to live. Now, now, we might, I might inject just a little bit of doctrine here that I don't... If you don't believe it, all right. That's just okay. I do believe it. I believe that--that a man, when he's born in this world, that when you're a little baby, born into the world, you could not have been here without being the foreknowledge of God, because He is infinite and He knows all things. And when that little baby is born into the world, there's something in that baby. If he's ever going to have Life, there's a little something in there, in that child then, that he comes to sooner or later. That little seed is in him. Now, if you'll take... The Scriptures plainly declare that.

INFALLIBLE.WORD.OF.GOD_ CHICAGO.IL FRIDAY_ 56-0406
E-23 Notice God using and creating His own material. God knew the very trees that would be cut down that went into the ark. When He spoke life into the--the--the germ that came from the seed, or in the seed that made the tree, He knew right then, that was the material that He would use to save Noah and the family.
God, before the foundation of the world, looked down through the stream of time and saw everything that would be. And therefore, He could call and elect those who He knew that He would put into His building. That's right. And if you've been called tonight by the Holy Ghost and given a chance to come into the Kingdom of God, happy ought you to be. Amen. If you're in the Kingdom of God, and you're a part of the body of Christ, thanks be to God. You live the life. You do the things that's right. And remember, this might sink just a little bit rough when it goes down, but let it digest awhile. If you're in the body of Christ, He does not have any amputations. No, His body's perfect, it don't need any amputations. Amen. Whew. That's the truth.
You know, the other night preaching on the ladder. He doesn't take off an arm or a leg. When it's placed there, it's placed there. It's the right material. Be sure that you're placed right.

FAITH_ CHARLOTTE.NC FRIDAY_ 56-0427
E-51 Notice. He said... Now, watch, in Genesis 13, He said, "Your seed is like the dust." After He give him the promise, He was going to confirm the promise, He said, "Your seed is like the stars." From the dust to the stars. Oh, do you see it? The resurrection, from the dust to the stars (Amen.), from a mossy, slimy, glittering dust till the shining star. And what's ahead of the stars, the greatest, the Morning Star which was Christ, the firstfruits are those who slept. Hallelujah.
Look at what a little forty years has done for me. Getting an old man, stooped shouldered, wrinkled face, bald-headed, but, oh, my. The Morning Star hasn't lost one glitter since the day that God placed it in the sky, and the Bible said we'll outshine the stars someday, and every...?...
What you scared about? God promised and swore to it by the death of Christ He would do it. And He called you by sovereign grace and elected you before the foundation of the world. Amen.

WHY.CRY.SPEAK_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-26 SUNDAY_ 63-0714M
9-3 Now, then, see that he was born with this great gift and quality within him. Then it only taken something to flash across that to bring that thing to Life. See, the seed of God is actually placed in us from the foundation of the world. And when that Light first strikes that seed, it brings it to Life, but the Light first has to come upon the seed.

WHY.CRY.SPEAK_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-26 SUNDAY_ 63-0714M
20-6 The Christians today should say the same thing: "I'm glad to regard myself a Christian, to abstain from the things of the world and the order of the world" not just as a church member, but as a born again Christian who lives according to the Scripture. Though I be called even by the members of the church a fanatic, yet I esteem that a greater, greater thing than what if I was the most popular person in the city or in the nation. I'd rather be that than President of the United States or the king over the earth. (You see?) I--I esteem that so highly, because God in His mercy before the foundation of the world saw me and--and placed a little seed in there that my faith would fly above these things of the world, and now He's called me, and I--I regard my place, as Paul said he regarded his office with highness. Oh, that God had called him from being a great teacher like Gamaliel, but Paul had been called to be a sacrifice for Christ. See?

284-2 SARDISEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.7
We have the same right today in the church. Names are going to be blotted out of the Book of Life. No names will be blotted out of the Book of Eternal Life for that is another record though contained in the Book of Life. THIS IS THE RECORD: GOD HATH GIVEN US ETERNAL LIFE, AND THIS LIFE IS IN HIS SON. HE THAT HATH THE SON HATH LIFE (ETERNAL) AND HE THAT HATH NOT THE SON HATH NOT LIFE (ETERNAL). And those who have that life were in HIM before the foundation of the world. THEY WERE CHOSEN IN HIM BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD. That GREAT ROYAL SEED, Jesus Christ, was planted (He died) and that life that was in Him came up through the wheat plant and is reproducing itself in multitudes of wheat seeds having the same life in them, and being like the Original because by Spirit they are original.