<TITLE>26. Par 251-260</TITLE>L-251 I love Him with all my heart. And after seeing the hundreds of religions of this world, I say, this morning, "On Christ the solid Rock, I will stand; all other grounds is sinking sand, All other grounds is sinking sand."
Shall we pray. Heavenly Father, oh, how happy I am this morning to know that Thy redeeming grace, Thy Son, has redeemed us from a life of sin. Oh, when I see my own body withering away, getting old, and turning gray and wrinkling up, yet I know that beyond this shadow here, yonder lays the body not made with hands. Yonder lays the immortal one, waiting; and that, someday, when the life is pulled from this body, it'll awake anew in His Presence yonder, to be with Him through the ages of time.
God, let every man and woman, this morning, that has this hope in them, purify themself from the things of the world. And these little old petty things that would drag them down, and keep them miserable, let them be happy Christians serving Thee. Grant these things, Father, through Jesus' Name, Thy Son. Amen.

L-254 I think I went just a little bit overtime for you, but my heart got carried away on His Word, on His Being. I come unprepared, not knowing I was going to speak; just happened to say these words. And I didn't get but one verse out of the Scripture, but maybe in a few Sundays we'll pick it up from there and go on, what the Word was.

L-255 Do you love Him? [The congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Listen, my Christian friend. If there is an ought in your heart against anyone, go to them now and be reconciled. Forget all the past. And if you've been having an up-and-down life, remember, something has come into that heart, something has moved into those thoughts. No matter who your enemy is, love him. Love him. No matter what's happened, let it go. After all, you're in a field with weeds; we realize that; but we must both grow together. We've got to come up together.
For a good well cannot pour forth evil waters, neither can an evil well pour forth good waters. A tree cannot bring forth corrupt fruit and good fruit at the same time. So let's either make the whole well clean, or make the whole well dirty: one or the other. See? For it is dirty to begin with, so let's clean out the wells this morning, and say, "Lord, pour in Your Spirit, and lead me, O God, lead me."

L-257 For seeing how we... Going down into a--a Catholic church over there, down there in Rome, and they wanted to take me to what they call the Bone church. And their monks, for hundreds of years, they taken and put them in the ground, down in the church, and bury them. Every church is a graveyard nearly. And they get those fellows in there. And after they're in there so long, they go dig them up. After the flesh is rotted away into the dust, they dig them up.
And they've made a room, many, many times bigger than this, just out of human bones, how they made them and stacked them together. And on the corners, where you walk down like this, the skulls and everything. The light fixtures are made out of little pieces of the fingers and bones. The lights are made out of bones and everything. Nothing but just... And there's the graves of others rotting away. A sign thing and very striking, said, "One time we were as you, and sometime you'll be as we." That's right.
And only those who love God will ever have immortal Life. And that's true.

L-260 And I noticed there, were people coming through. Catholic religion is a whole lot on superstitions and things. Them skulls on monks there, had rubbed till they were white, some of them corroded over that deep. But the people were rubbing them, trying to get blessings and things like that, off the skulls of these monks. It only goes to show, it's a human being. It's a heart in there hungering for something.
Brother, the religion of Jesus Christ doesn't consist of rubbing dead men's bones. It believes in the Lord Jesus Christ, and accepting immortal Life. Oh, my.


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