“Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:” [Leviticus 23:10]

“But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.” [Exodus 13:18]

“Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.” [II Corinthians 1:22]

“Israel lost their faith. They got off the path. They begin to lust for the flesh pots. If they'd stayed with faith, and believing that God was going to take them to the land , there'd have been nothing hinder them. They'd already opened up seas; they'd smote plagues upon their enemies; they'd crucified their enemies behind them, and had walked over into the land , and still couldn't have faith to go on to the promise. Joshua and Caleb had that faith. They said, "We are more than able to conquer anything that would come before us." That's the trouble with the church. We can conquer every disease. We got the power in us. We are sons and daughters of God, nothing can stand before us. Only thing, He wants to find somebody who will believe it, who will believe what God's already done for you. "Not we will be; we are now." And the ever-living Presence of the Spirit is with us. Amen. There you are.” [61-0723M The Ever Present Water From The Rock, Jeffersonville IN]

“And now, when the time of the promise drew nigh, God raised up someone to bring them to that land . How many in the class tonight who that one was--knows who that one was? Moses. Notice, a very, very, a real type of our One that was given to bring us to the Promised Land : Christ. Now, we have a promise, 'cause our promise is spiritual rest, where theirs was physical rest. And so they was coming to a land that they could say, "This is our land ; we are no more wanderers; we've settled down; this is our land , and here we have rest. We'll plant our corn, our vineyard, and we'll eat from our vineyards. And then when we pass on, we'll leave it to our children."” [60-0518 Adoption, Jeffersonville IN]

“Then one day came another great Warrior, the greatest of all of them--Immanuel. He come down, and He said, "This is not the land . But in My Father's house is many mansions. If it wasn't so I would've told you. And I'll go and prepare a place for you, and return again to receive you unto Myself." Notice. He came to His Kadesh-barnea, Calvary, where He stood the sin-judgment for all of us. The penalty of God's judgment was met in justice when Christ died at Calvary, paying the price of sin for all of us. And He crossed over in a Jordan, as we know it, the Jordan of death, over into the land , and returned back on the third day, like Joshua did, bringing the evidence that after a man dies he can live again. There's life beyond death. He proved it. And now... He said, "For the earnest of this, the down... (You know what the earnest of anything is--the down payment), go up there to the city of Jerusalem and wait. I'm going to send you the earnest of your salvation." Amen. Now, I begin to feel religious. And they waited until they received the earnest.” [62-0713 From That Time, Spokane WA]

“Then, on the Day of Pentecost, He sent back the earnest of this Place, the assurance, the evidence that this Land is real. Just like Joshua brought back the evidence, Jesus brought the evidence of the Holy Ghost. Now, we reckon ourself dead. We're buried with Him in baptism, unto His death. And we raise with Him, in the resurrection. And now we are in, already, not we're going to. We're already raised. Oh, my! We are now, not will be, we are now, tonight, setting in Heavenly places (how?) in Christ Jesus. Not we will be, some other time. We are now. The Church don't realize who they are. See? We are now, right this minute, (how?) in Christ Jesus, assembled together in Him, already raised from the dead. Our souls was immortal.” [62-0531 The Conflict Between God And Satan, Clarksville IN]

“We are waiting for the fulness of adoption. This will take place when? At the first resurrection. That's when our bodies will be changed from these vile creatures that we are and we'll have a body like His Own glorious body, "For we shall see Him as He is, and we will be like Him." When He appears, we appear in His likeness. We will have a body like His, a glorious glorified body, and all the trials and struggles of life will fade off into a little mist and blow away to never be no more. And these earthly tabernacles which we now groan in, we're waiting for that earnest--that earnest... for the salvation fully in its fulness to come. But now in these tabernacles of clay we have Something that tells us that we have raised up so far. Amen. What is the earnest? It's the little down payment that holds it, Brother Dauch. It's the earnest. Now, once when we loved the things of the world, once when we sinned and went about doing things of the world, and cared not for God, we were alienated from Him, without God, without Christ, in the world; now, God sent His Holy Spirit and through that we are lifted up from those things. Now we have the earnest, that we know that we've passed from death unto Life. Amen! Here, as I was trying to show this like this. Here is where the ordinary sinner runs, down here on the bottom. Now, the Christian goes up a little higher than this, he rises above all that stuff. That's the earnest of his salvation.” [61-0611 Revelation Chapter Five 1, Jeffersonville IN]

“But now! Now! They did all those years until now! Now we have the earnest of our inheritance! Oh, my! What do we have? We have the evidence that God lives. We have the evidence that God is with us. We have the evidence that God has not forsaken us, that we are His and He is ours, because we (in our bodies), we now tabernacle the Holy Spirit of God that cries out, "Abba, Father." And there's nothing can ever take that away. We are anchored in Christ. Now, the trees does not have it, nature does not have it, but yet we are still groaning with them because as yet we haven't received the fulness of our adoption. But we have the earnest of it, that we were picked up from the things of the world and now become sons and daughters of God. What kind of people should we be? Oh, my, when we think of that! Think of it! Now we have the earnest, our spirit's groaning for the full adoption, but now we have the earnest of it. As we receive the Holy Spirit, it is the earnest of our complete adoption or complete salvation. Oh, how beautiful! I just love that.” [61-0611 Revelation Chapter Five 1, Jeffersonville IN]

“Now, we find out then that a seal means that "it is a finished thing with God, it's already settled." And every believer was sealed with this promise from the very beginning, because before the foundation of the world we were predestined unto the adoption of sons. Before the world ever began! Oh, what a hope. That makes us rest steadfast and sure. A anchor to the soul that's not tossed about here and there, but anchored in Christ, a hope that's sure. "Predestinated us before the foundation of the world, to the adoptions of sons by Jesus Christ." Oh, how wonderful! I love that: "finished work" with God.” [61-0611 Revelation Chapter Five 1, Jeffersonville IN]