<TITLE>04. Par 34-40</TITLE>L-34 Over in the Book of I Corinthians, just by the way of text, if we would call it that, for a few moments, we'd like to read a verse or two here to give us a background and a little testimony that I want to tell you before we start speaking.
I've got a few notes wrote down here of different things I want to say to you about services, and something that happened the other day. So, I won't forget it, I hope.
Now, in I Corinthians... God's Word always has the preeminence. It's first. Keep His Word. And now in the 14th chapter, and beginning with the 6th verse, I read this:
Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall--what shall it profit you, except you... speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?
And everything without life give a sound, whether it be pipe... harp, or except it give a distinction in the sound, how shall it be known whether it is pipe or harp?
For if the trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for... battle? (Paul speaking.)

L-37 And then over in Psalms, the 1st Psalm, we read this. "Blessed is the man who God will not impute to him unright--righteousness, or sin." And the blessed man is a different man. David speaking, saying that how blessed he was, that, "The blessed man, he was like a tree that's planted by the rivers of water," in Psalms 1, "and how that he would bear his fruit in the season. The ungodly would not be so, but he would--he would perish," and so forth. But the--the blessed man was God's man.
And now I want, being there's just not too many here today (And I hope it's not too hot for you to set there for a few moments, or at least forty-five minutes.), I'd like to just talk to you heart-to-heart today.

L-39 In the Tabernacle I don't get a chance to do this too often, or out in the meetings to teach doctrine, or to say things that I want to say, but out there, it's always on the subject of Divine healing. And out in the other churches where their different mixes up and certain denominations that teach different theology, well, then, I--I can't say it, because it hurts feelings and so forth. Even, sometime, the Word being preached, simple and plain, it hurts feelings. And the best thing to do is just stay on the fundamental principles of--of Jesus Christ when we're out there, and His death, burial, resurrection, and His--and His power and love for the people. And that way it causes no confusion.

L-40 Because I don't... To me, it doesn't matter to me what church, people belongs to. The main thing is if they're Christian. If you're a Catholic, if you're a Protestant, if you're Methodist, Baptist, or whatever you might be, as long as you are a Christian, that's the main thing. Christ don't look at your church you belong to. Because they'll all perish and go away someday, and break up, and they'll not be thought of any more. But the--the principle of Christianity is the conditions of the heart towards God. And that's the thing that we like to concentrate on: is to know a brother, not by the church he belongs to, or how he wears his clothes, but what he is in his heart.
Now, my subject this morning, of course, is: "The Uncertain Sound."
Now there's many things that gives sounds. And there's many uncertain sounds today. There is uncertainty on every hand. Everywhere you look in the national affairs, it's--it's uncertainty. The big-four meetings, it's... They come together. They write out declarations, but there's an uncertainty whether the other side will keep their--their pledge or not.
There's uncertainty about whether it's going to rain tomorrow, or whether it's going to be fair weather. It's uncertainty in everything that you look at, but one thing: that's in Christ. See? That's one thing that you can be assure that's certain.


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