<TITLE>10. Par 70-76</TITLE>L-70 Now, today so many people are listening... Now Sunday school, I love it, look. So many people are listening to enticing spirits and instead of taking the Word of God. Spirits, they're in the world. They're demons, and they go out into places, and they get amongst men: ministers. They get amongst church members; they get amongst good people; and they cause them to come into a illusion; and they say things, and do things, and teach things, and practice things that's contrary to the Word of God. Today ministers, other congregations are allowing their people to play cards in the churches, many of them. Now, that's not altogether Catholics; there's a lot of Protestants does that.
What they try to do is substitutionary something. They try to adopt some new plan. They try to adopt education to take the place of the Holy Ghost. You'll never be able to do it. No matter how well your man is educated... I think it's a good thing for him to be educated, but if he hasn't got the Holy Spirit with that, his education will do him no good. Education will never take the place of the leadership of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

L-72 Notice, they... Instead of this, they had tried to adopt handshaking for the old time experience we used to have. Today the church has become modern. They walk up and they give the right hand of fellowship. And that's about the way they do it. But it'll never take the place of the old fashion mourners bench where sinners called out and got right with God. That's right.
Today they're trying to take the place of God's tithing. They're trying to adopt something. They're trying to make it different. They go down and have bunco games in the churches, play lottery. Lottery will never take the place of God's tithings. Suppers, blanket selling, picnics to raise money to pay different debts off. It'll never take the place of God's eternal tithe and offerings; it'll never do it. But yet we're trying to do it.

L-74 What is it? It's enticing spirits coming down trying to subs--substitute something for the Word of God. God has no substitute for His Word. It's eternal and forever. God has nothing to substitute faith. Faith has no substitute. Hope will never take the place of faith. Faith is alone, stands alone. It'll never take the... Hope can never take its place. Hope is a substance. "The things hoped for is the evidence of the things not seen," or faith is, rather. See? Hope's one thing; faith is another. Hope hopes for it. Faith has got it. One's intellectual faith, and the other is direct revelation of God. It'll never take its place.
We're trying, but we're making all these substitutes. We're trying to build great churches and instead of send missionaries, another substitute. Jesus never ordained anybody to build a church. It never was ordained in the Bible. We put up seminaries. They said, "That takes the place of missionaries." We... Jesus never did tell us to build a seminary. They're all right. Education, trying to get that to take the place, it'll never do it. Jesus' commission was to go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature till the end time. So all the substitutionaries we have will never take the place of the genuine.

L-76 The other day I had an experience, a substitutionary. I had my first toothache, had to pull a tooth out. This morning I got a false tooth sticking in there; I can't hardly talk. It'll never take the place of the real one. No, sir. Oh my.
You might take a man and dress him up, make him out of wood, chalk, whatever you want to, and fix him up ever so much. He has no feelings, no conscience, he'll never take the place of any real man. Neither will a bogus conversion that walks up and says, "I joined the church. I'll try to do better." It'll never take the place of a genuine old fashion, God sent, Holy Ghost conversion that makes a man different in his heart. It can't do it because there's no Life in it. There's nothing to give him life.


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