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come to Christ, and to come to
God, and wants to obey Him,
and wants salvation, and wants
to come out of the world, and
wants to have God's Spirit and
live God's way.
Do you say that he can't come
to Christ unless the Father
draws him?" "Yes, I do." "Well,
is he shut off?" "No." "So, what
then?" "Well," I say, "If he does
want to do that, the Father DID
draw him (Didn't He?) or he
WOULDN'T WANT TO." Do
you get the answer?
But what about the world?
They don't WANT to! And any
man who DOES WANT TO,
WANTS TO ONLY BECAUSE
GOD THE FATHER DID
DRAW him. But you take most
people, they don't want to.
Now go back to the time when I
gave myself to God. I gave up
trying to disagree with Him. I
saw I disagreed. I saw He was
right and I was wrong. But
(Instead of saying "I GET
Christ, I appropriate, I accept
Christ, and I'm going to get and
take.") I said: "I will give
myself to Him. He bought and
paid for me, and I belong to
Him." So I did. I gave myself to
Him. But I know now that He
had drawn me and called me,
otherwise I wouldn't have
wanted to do that.
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But what do you think is the
first thing I did? Oh, I was so
filled with happiness about it
all, and the TRUTH that God
had revealed to me was so
WONDERFUL, that I just
wanted to share that right away
with those closest to me -- my
family and my relatives. So I
went to them. I was just in awe,
an eager beaver. I was all
enthusiastic. I was all lit up
with it.
Now you see, my wife, when
she first learned about the
Sabbath, came and she said,
"Oh, I must go tell Herbert.
He'll be glad to hear this." That
was a wonderful truth to her
when she saw in the Bible that
we must keep the Sabbath on
Saturday instead of observing
Sunday, which is not the Sab-
bath. Well, I didn't want to
hear it. I didn't like it a bit.
God used that to start drawing
me, but He hadn't drawn me
very much yet.
But, after 6 months intensive
study, I saw how wrong I was;
and I proved that God exists;
and I proved that the Bible is
His Word. I saw that I disa-
greed with it, and I saw that He
was right; and everything He
said made sense, and every-
thing I believed did not.
Then I received His Word with
joy, and happiness, and enthu-
siasm; and I wanted all my
relatives to believe it. They
thought I was insane. They
thought I'd gone crazy. "What
happened to you? Well, I don't
want any of that." They didn't
want any of this truth AT ALL.
No, you see, God had not
drawn them. Some of them are
still living, and He still hasn't
drawn them even to this day.
...unless the Father
DRAWS him...
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