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SO, YOU REVEAL YOURSELF TO PEOPLE.  CAN ONE LEARN MORE ABOUT YOU THAN WHAT IS REVEALED IN THE BIBLE?

Short Answer.  Practically, yes – in essence, no.

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

Well, through my spirit, I can become quite intimate with folks if they want and I want – it’s all based on trust – but essentially, no matter how deep we go in the relationship, I am the same person they would find in the introductory remarks.  For instance, if you looked, you did not find a thing in the book that told you about this interview.  Even so, I had one guy pen, “Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.”⁹

BUT THE BIBLE – THE INTRODUCTORY REMARKS, AS YOU CALL IT – SEEMS TO INFER THAT BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN, PEOPLE ARE NATURALLY ALIENATED FROM YOU.  WHY WOULD THEY DRAW NEAR?

Good question.  I cause them to.¹⁰  If I didn’t, they would stay out to lunch indefinitely.  Everything and everyone is at my discretion, so I use it all.¹¹  No one chooses me, initially – they just think they do.  No, I do the choosing around here. 

WHAT ARE YOU SAYING – YOU’RE THE ULTIMATE CONTROL FREAK?

Not at all.  But seriously, don’t you recall, “Apart from me, you can do nothing"¹²? My son heard me say it, and he repeated it.¹³  My spirit caused his close friend to remember it,¹⁴ and he wrote it down.  Many choice players suffer a lot of grief until they are made privy of the fact that, before I enabled them, they had not the slightest inclination or ability to access me.  If I don’t reveal myself, nobody has a clue – with or without the introductory remarks.    

9   (James 4:8a)

10 “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him” (and/or) “. . . no one can come to Me unless it has been granted to him by My Father” (John 6:44a, 65b).

11 “The earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness, the world and those who dwell therein” (Psalm 24:1).

12 (John 15:5b, New American Standard) “Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it” (Psalm 127:1a).

13 “. . . I speak to the world those things which I heard from Him” (John 8:26b).  “. . . as My Father taught me, I speak these things” (John 12:28b).  “. . . just as the Father has told me, so I speak (John 12:50b).

14 “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you” (John14:26).