<TITLE>02. Par 12-16</TITLE>L-12 So see what a bundle we got? The whole world has become a conglomeration of--of muck, and sin, and despair. And ever... It's got to get that way to blow up. See? The whole thing's pulled all the ties out, all the iron and stuff to make ships and bridges, and so forth. What God put it together with, and welded it together, and mend it together like this; taken all the gas and oils and things out of it like that, to burn, and the gasoline in the cars, and so forth. And pulling all the coal out to make electricity (See?), you just hollowing it out till it's just become a hull, just with streaks, and things out of it like that. And then the people's just become so sinful, till it just 'come a great big muck, till it's just like it was in beginning, "God grieved that He ever made man." It just takes one little atomic jar to set the whole thing out of order there, just exactly what He said would do. You see?

L-13 So we're just living in that day and happy to be a Christian. Oh, my. My, what could I do if I... I believe I'd go wild if I wasn't a Christian looking at the thing. I don't see how people can stand it. I just don't understand how a man can walk on earth today without being a Christian. I wish anybody would give me a reason, some reason, why not to serve Christ. I--I--I... You can't give a sensible reason. See? We're just... This is the day that we all ought to be happy and ready; the great homecoming time is at hand.
And oh, my, there's just the, "Tene, Tene, Tekel, Upharsin," wrote on every nation, every wall, everywhere. Every democracy, every kingdom, everywhere else, is falling. "Thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting," kingdoms have. Kings has failed. And dictators has failed. Democracy's failed. Churches has failed. Human beings has failed. Everything has failed.
"You say, 'Churches'?" Yes, sir.

L-15 One of the biggest failures in the world is the church. That's--that's right. Churches has miserably failed. Everything's failed. "But we receive a Kingdom which will not fail: Jesus Christ." It cannot fail. And we're so happy for that, that it's not a church affair. It's an individual affair. It's not whether my church is saved; it's whether I am saved. It isn't whether my deacon's saved, or my pastor's saved, or my mother's saved; it's whether I am saved or not, myself, I must be saved. Then I must tell them. And then, if they're saved, wonderful; if they're not, I must still remain saved. That's... I must retain my salvation. Oh, what a wonderful day.

L-16 Too, I--I think, every day, pretty near, on Eddie Perronet's song; that my hope... No, it wasn't Eddie Perronet. I forget who wrote it. "My hopes is built on nothing less than Jesus' Blood and righteousness." Isn't that a wonderful song? "All around my soul gives way, and He's all my hope and stay." See? "On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand."


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