<TITLE>08. Par -</TITLE>L-10-5 My faith doesn't anchor in what the coming meetings will be. My faith doesn't rest in only--any ability that I would have, or upon what church I should join, or what people I should associate with. My faith anchors and rests entirely upon the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ, already been received.
God justified Him by raising Him from the dead. "This is My beloved Son in Whom I'm well pleased," and God raised Him up from the dead for our justification. No wonder the poet said:
Living He loved me; dying, He saved me;
Buried, He carried my sins far away;
Rising, He justified, freely forever:
Someday He's coming--oh, glorious day."
The Christian rests in that hope upon the stormy seas. There... Sure, storms rise, all kinds of troubles, but we're anchored. That's all. It'll never sink. It can't sink.

L-11-3 Now, I've noticed many Christians in my life to be up and down. I've wondered about that. And without preaching such a text as this out in the other churches to where I go, I thought best to deliver it to my people here at the Tabernacle upon, "Why Are People So Tossed About?"
You find then, people who seem to be very religious, seems to have such a deep desire, and daily they search, and hunt, and seek for God, and never come to any settlement of any kind to where they could ever be settled or anchored in Christ. And this I have learned to be in experience, that it is people of intellectuals.

L-11-5 Now, speaking this, there is two different types of Christianities. Seems strange, but I would not say two different types; I say two different phases would be a better word to use, not two types, two phases: the same Christianity, but two phases of it. And one of them is an intellectual or a mental conception of what God has said in His Word and of Jesus Christ by the way of knowledge. And the other is an experimental experience that God has given the man in his heart.
The one, intellectually is a hungering. He--he's feasting on God, but his--his feast doesn't hold out. The other one seems to have victory all the time. There's nothing bothers them. They're just as solid and anchored as they can be. No trials, no storms bothers them at all. But they seem to have something about them that people who are Christians and trying to live for God, admire that type of Christian. And I've often wondered, "Lord, what is it that these people have that others crave so much for, and yet seem to fail to get it?"

L-11-7 And I know that's a great question of all of our hearts who have served Christ. And I've never seen a person yet, that ever once comes to Him except they--afterwards, they--life never seemed right to them any more, if they ever left Christ.

L-12-1 I was speaking yesterday to a little colored man who told me of a minister walking back, and tearing up his preaching papers, and throwed them into the trash box, and said, "I'm through with it." And the following Sunday he'd got a case of beer, and set in the place and drank it. A couple weeks after that, laid dying on the bed.
If I had time I'd explain that, how that works in the Bible, but that'd be off the text. But that's another subject, how that Satan come in and took the person; God had to take His child home. That's all it was: often happens.


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