Notes used in the message
“Where
Wast Thou?”
JOB 38:1
1 ¶
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
JOB 38:2
2 Who [is] this that darkeneth counsel by
words without knowledge?
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3 Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I
will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
JOB 38:4
4 ¶
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if
thou hast understanding.
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5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou
knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
JOB 38:6
6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof
fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
JOB 38:7
7 When the morning stars sang together, and
all the sons of God shouted for joy?
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God knowed the end from the beginning; therefore, He could plan
everything, that it would work out just to His glory. That gives us courage to
know that no matter what comes or goes, God is making everything; the clock is
ticking just exactly on time.
Sometimes
we get weary, upset. We get hastily. We think, "Oh, we must do this or do
that."
But
remember, God's clock will be just exactly on time. All these things has to be
this way. It has to all be done according to His great knowledge,
His foreknowledge; for by foreknowledge He could predestinate, not by His
desire, but by His knowledge. God doesn't predestinate by His desire. He's not willing that any should perish, but by His foreknowledge He knew who would accept it and who
would not. Therefore, He could make everything work according to
His big time clock that's ticking away, for He could foretell the end from the
beginning.
And
therefore, He knew that we'd live in this day. He knew that this would be our
day. He had had plans for this day. He's had plans for every day. And never has
one of His plans ever failed. He's always on time.
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178 Now, you cannot be omnipresent without
being omniscient. God's not even omnipresent; God's omniscient. Omniscient
which means--makes Him omnipresent (He knows all things). But in order to be a
being He has to be in one being. But being omniscient He can be omnipresent,
'cause He knows all things, and knowed it before the... He
knowed before the world begin how many fleas, lice, how many bugs, and how many
times they'd bat their eyes, and everything about it (See?), 'cause He's
omnipresent. And you can't be omniscient--omniscient without
being infinite. See? There's only one thing infinite: God. Amen.
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38 His great foreknowledge tells Him all these things, by
foreknowledge. He's omnipresent because He's omniscient; omniscient because
He's omnipresent. Therefore, by His foreknowledge... Now, He
can't be just like the wind over the earth, because He is a Being. He just
isn't a myth; He's a Being. He dwells; He even dwells in a house. He dwells in
a place called heaven; and therefore, by His omni--being omnipresent--being
omniscient, knowing all things, then He is omnipresent because He knows all
things.
You...
Now, you grew from your birth... When you was born and presented into this
world, God knew that you were going to be here in this earth, and you growed
from birth to maturity. Things that seem so strange to you in your young
womanhood, young boyhood, as children, now seems very real. You couldn't
understand it when you was a child, but now as you become adult, you begin to
understand and find out that everything was just set just right. And you... It
really means something to you now.
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397-Q-87 87. Were--were we spirits then?
No, we were not even nothing then, but in God's mind we were. And He spoke it and it
materialized. Jesus was slain before... How many knows that the Bible teaches
that Jesus Christ was the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world. Why? God spoke it, and when He spoke it, it was as good as
finished. And when He saw me, He saw you before the foundation of the world, we
were only figurative in His mind. Then when we come to the
world, we were both man and woman, male and female. He separated the feminish
spirit from the man and made a woman out of it and left the masculine spirit in
a man.
When you
see a woman acting like a man, there's something wrong. You see a man acting
sissy like a woman, there's something wrong.
And then
He took from the man's side a rib and made a helpmate out of him, and they two
are one.
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Before I
close this subject, I know there is a question
in your minds. You will want to know if I believe in the doctrine of
pre-existence. I don't believe in that Mormon doctrine of the pre-existence of
souls any more than I believe in reincarnation or the transmigration of souls.
Be careful here and see this. It is not the person that comes predestinated
eternally from God, IT IS THE WORD, OR SEED. That is it. Way back
there, too far back for the human mind to grasp, the Eternal God with eternal
thoughts, thought and decreed, "JACOB HAVE I LOVED, BUT ESAU HAVE I HATED,
(Romans 9:13) AND NEITHER WAS BORN, AND NEITHER HAD DONE GOOD OR EVIL."
See, it was the THOUGHT, and then that thought became expressed, and God bought
back Jacob, because Jacob alone was SEED. Jacob, alone had the seed; that is
why he had respect to the birthright and covenant of God. If you are true seed,
you will hear that Word; the Spirit will baptize you into the body of Christ,
filling you and empowering you, and you will receive the Word for your day and
age. See how clear the true evidence becomes when the Word is revealed to you?
Again, note, Jesus was the Royal Seed. He lived in a human body. When the
Spirit called to Him (the Word-Manifested Thought), He went to
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And as I said last evening, God has 'lotted that His Scripture from the
beginning, before there was any time, when He was eternal... He--He is the
eternal One. And then, these things that's happening now are only the
attributes of God's thinking. At first it has to be a thought and then a word.
And a word... When a thought expressed is a word. And then it's spoken, it has
to happen. And the whole thing is God unfolding Himself in His attributes. And
then God being made material, tangible, that we can talk to, speak with in His
whole church body, and everything...
Therefore, your name was in His thinking. That's how you have Eternal
Life. You can't have it no other way. If you got Eternal Life you always was.
See? You... If otherwise... You just can't say, "Well, I belong to church;
I do this." No, sir. Eternal life never had a be... Anything that was
eternal never did begin and cannot end. So you were only in His thinking: your
name, who you are, and what you are. That's the only way you could ever have
Eternal Life, 'cause you always was.
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42 Now, if you've got Eternal Life tonight, if
we have Eternal Life, then we always were, because there's only one form of
Eternal Life. We always were. And the reason we were, because we are a part of
God. And God is the only thing that's eternal.
And like
Melchisedec received tithes from Abraham, and it was 'lotted to his
great-grandson, Levi, who was yet in the loins of Abraham; paid tithes, for he
was yet in the loins of Abraham when he met Melchisedec. I want to speak on
that over at the other place, one morning: Who Is This Melchisedec? Now, notice
that. Way back, God knew this boy coming down. He knowed all things.
Now, we are a part of God. You always was. You don't remember it,
because you were only an attribute in God. You were only in His thinking. Your
very name, if it ever was on the Book of Life, it was put there before the
foundation of the world. He knew what you were.
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48 Notice, those who have tonight Eternal
Life, was with Him and in Him, in His thinking, before there ever was an Angel,
star, Cherubim, or anything else. That's eternal. And if you have Eternal Life,
you always was, not your being here, but the shape and form that the infinite
God... And if He isn't infinite, He isn't God.
God has
to be infinite. We're finite; He's infinite. And He was omnipresent,
omniscient, and omnipotent. If He isn't, then He can't be God: knows all
things, all places because of His omnipresence. Omniscient makes Him
omnipresent. He is a being; He's not like the wind. He is a being; He dwells in
a house, but being omniscient, knowing all things, makes Him omnipresent,
because He knows everything that's going on. There can't be a flea bat its eyes
but what He knowed it. And He knowed it before there was a world, how many time
it'd bat it's eyes and how much tallow it had in it, before there ever was a
world. That is infinite. We can't comprehend it in our minds, but that's
God--God, infinite.
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Just the Elected understood Who He was. Just think, there's about maybe
three million people, Jews, on earth; there wasn't one third of them ever
knowed He was there till He'd done come and gone. See? But He revealed Himself
to those who were waiting: John the Baptist, and--and the apostles that had
been called by John, and so forth, and blind Ann in the temple, Simeon the
priest that it was revealed to him by the Holy Ghost that he was going to see
the Christ. All those great religious leaders, theologians and things, blind as
they could be.
Only can
the rain raise the seed, if the seed's already there. And as you was a germ
first in your father, and he didn't know you, yet you were in your father. But
through a bedding ground of your mother, you were made manifest in his likeness,
and then he could talk to you.
God, the
great God; if you've got Eternal Life, then the germ of
Eternal Life was in God at the beginning. And you were there, you were in His
thinking, your name and all. And He by
foreknowledge ordained you to see this. And you that was not ordained, will
never see it. But, remember, in the Name of the Lord Jesus,
"The hour is here." Won't you believe Him? Give your lives to Him. I
have to stop, it's after nine. Let's bow our heads:
"I
have heard, Lord, of Thee, now I see Thee." Lord Jesus, bless this people
as they wait.
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Like, in the beginning, God was not even God. He was the
great eternal. And in there was attributes. Attributes was His thoughts. And
then it become a Word like this. And a word expressed... Well, a thought
expressed is a word. A word expressed is a thought. And then, remember, if you
ever was in God's thinking, you'll always be there. If you've got Eternal Life,
you are the expression or the attribute of His thought for this age. If not,
you...
There's only one Eternal Life, and it always existed. And you in His
mind existed before there was a world. That's the reason He said He chose you
before the foundation of the world. It isn't what we think, what somebody else
thinks; it's what God eternal... You always was (See?) in His thinking. It was
in Him to be man. That's the reason that Christ was the expressed image. See?
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Remember, there's only one form of Eternal Life, and our--even our names and our thoughts were with God before
there was a foundation of the world. Because now we possess Eternal Life, and
to be that we have to be a part of God. So we'd have to be as much as in His
thoughts, 'cause we have Eternal Life and was predestined to this life. And our
names were put on the Lamb's Book of Life before the foundation of the world,
according to Revelations. Now, that God had us in His thinking, then we have
Eternal Life, 'cause then He spoke us, and we come into existence. And a word
is just a thought manifested. God had us in the beginning in His thoughts.
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What I mean, "attributes" was His thoughts.
And a--a word is a thought expressed. And then that was in His thinking.
And when He said, "Let there be," and there was..."Let there
be," and there was.
And now,
remember, you Christians were His thoughts before there was a
world. And you are the manifestation of His thinking. Before
there even was a world, you were in Christ (amen), in God in the beginning.
That makes you, then (You see?) His subjects. And the whole thing is God
Himself, materializing Himself tangible so He could be handled, seen, and--and
so forth. And that's what God is, the whole thing.
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13 Now, if you were in His thinking at the beginning, if
you've got Eternal Life, there's only one form of Eternal Life, Eternal Life
had no beginning and it has no ending. So if you have Eternal Life, you were an
attribute of God's thinking before there was anything but Him.
Your
form, your shape, and what you're in now, is just a
negative, when you come up to the--around twenty, twenty-two
years old. You were a negative, and death develops the
picture to the positive, that when this earthly tabernacle be
dissolved, we have one already waiting. See?
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But remember, you, in the--the statue that you are in this morning, if you wasn't in His thinking then, you're not now.
For you... There's some part that's in you that's eternal; and eternal only
belongs to God.
And in God was His thinking of you setting right where you are now. In
His thinking I stood at the pulpit this morning, because He's infinite and
knows all things.
Therefore, He could tell the end from the beginning, because He's eternal. And you, being a son of God or a daughter of God, then
you were in His thinking at the beginning.
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Now, in these messages I want to--to--to emphasize the things that I
have told you in the Message of this evening Light that God said would come
upon the earth.
And
notice, man, the beast that was to come upon the earth would deceive all whose
names were not put in the Lamb's Book of Life, slain before the foundation of
the world.
In God's own thinking... God, the great Spirit, in the beginning before
there was a beginning, He was God. And did you know you were in Him then? If
you are a Christian now, you was in Him then. And then if that be so, the whole
Godhead bodily shaped up in the Person of Jesus Christ. And then when Jesus
died at the cross, I died with Him, for I was in Him then; for He was the
Fulness of the Word manifested, knowing that we would be manifested later. And
we was at
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17 So you see, if you were in the foreknowledge of God, then
you are becoming a part of God. And the only way you can be a son of God or a
daughter of God, you had to be a part of God, and God isn't complete without
you. Has to be. That's right, 'cause there is One, only one
resource of Eternal Life, and that is God, and Him alone has Eternal Life. See?
Now, and you were a part of Him, insomuch that you're an
attribute, or in His thinking in the beginning. And that, because He thought of
you in the beginning, it gives that little tug towards Him. That's what has to
be quickened. Some of them will never be quickened; they just
don't have it; that's all.
Just like
if you would put a grain of corn in the ground, didn't have... Ever how pretty
it was, if it didn't have the germ of life in it, it can never be quickened.
But the germ of life has to be there first.
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Now, remember, you say, "Well, we believe this, but we don't
believe that." If you're married to Christ, Christ is the Word of God. In
He was only the manifestation of the attributes of God, for He was the
Son of God, and any son is the attributes of his father. And just as you were
in the genes of your father, in the body of your father when he was a young
boy... You were in him, yet he could not have fellowship with you, because he
didn't know you.
But then through the bedding grounds of a mother, you were brought forth into
the earth and become in the image of your father; then he could fellowship with
you. And so were you sons of God and daughters of God before
there even was a moon, stars, or a molecule; you were sons and daughters of
God. For you are only the physical manifestation of the attributes that was in
God at the beginning. For there's only one form of Eternal Life,
and that was you before... You don't know nothing about it; neither did you
know when you were in your earthly father. But you're manifested in His image;
in the image of God you are made, and you were manifested for the glory and the
fellowship of God.
And
therefore, as sure as your genes had to be in your father before your natural
birth, your spiritual genes had to be in God, because you're an
expression of the attributes of His thoughts before the foundation of the
world. That's right. No way around it. That's right.