<TITLE>08. Par 25-26</TITLE>L-25 But you take the people of a whole in America, oh, my, they're well fed, and...?... They don't have to worry about anything. They got all the money they want, and thousands and millions of dollars, making yearly, and fine cars, big summer homes, and places, and everything. They don't have to worry. What's religion to them? Just a place to set around, some place to say, "Well, I belong to the church." And they'll find the highest and most practical church that they can go to. And did you know, that's the very side of Satan? I hope we don't get rough about it, but remember, in heaven what made Lucifer jealous? He goes over in the north and puts him up a better kingdom; he wanted a bigger kingdom, more brighter, better, prettier.
The devil always works in beauty. Sure he does. That's the reason Cain offered what he did for his offering. But there was no beauty in Abel bringing his lamb, but Abel had a spiritual revelation from God, that that's what God would be pleased with. And as we have said, only through spiritual revelation, can you ever know God. You'll never know Him by knowledge.

L-26 In the garden of Eden there were two trees: One was the Tree of Life; the other one the tree of knowledge. Man left the Tree of Life to eat the tree of knowledge. And the first bite he took, he separated his fellowship from God. Every time he takes a bite off it, he destroys himself. He bit off gun powder; look what that did. Bit off automobiles; kills more than all the wars. He got hisself a hydrogen bomb now; wonder what he's going to do with that? See? He destroys himself. God don't destroy anything. Man, through knowledge, destroys himself.
He goes to the seminary; he learns all about everything. Then he comes back; he knows more than anybody else about it. He comes back, and he explains all the Blood out of the Bible. "This part's inspired; that part's not inspired." Just what he wants to believe is inspired. When he does, by that he separates hisself and his congregation from the blessings of God. Amen.


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