<TITLE>07. Par 23-26</TITLE>L-23 And when Adam and Eve realized that they had sinned and could not stand upon their self-made religion, they made themselves aprons of fig leaves, we're told. That's the way man is today, when he sins, he will join church. he will do something; he will try to cover hisself up, get out in a little better group, or try to belong to a better society. All those things are man made, and cannot stand. They'll never work; you just might as well forget it. God wouldn't recognize it.
And as Adam and Eve come down to the end of the road, when they had to face God and realize they were naked, so will every man, woman, boy, or girl who trusts in anything less than the shed Blood of Jesus Christ. At the hour of your death, you'll realize that you're a sinner, dying in the Presence of God. Right. Very strong, but I don't believe we got too much time left here on earth to do what we have to do... The Christian Church, how it failed, and it's time to take off the gloves and preach the Gospel in the old fashion way. I believe it in the old fashion way,

L-24 And I realize that today that we're living when watch parties are put throughout the United States to watch for secret planes coming in, that we're living at the end time. Most any time, just one fanatic nation could set off a--a chain of relays of atomic power, or hydrogen power, that would destroy the whole entire annihilation of the earth in a few hours time. I know that three cobalt bombs dropped over here in Pacific ocean, and in less than twenty-four hours (the time the world could revolve around), there wouldn't be a, even an insect left on earth alive, no way to stop it. Them things could happen today as we know in our own lovely state of Indiana, hunting a killer that's shooting in the back of the neck, and all these different things, and fanatic people like that that's insane, because they've been separated from the love of God. Anything could happen, and you know that. And we're living in a terrible time.

L-25 And personally, not taking newspapers or whatmore, which is all right, but going overseas and dealing up into the ranks of the people, and seeing that every nation is trembling and shaking, and they don't know what to do... All these earthly things has got to give away to the eternal things.
A few years ago, many of you man here tonight, up in my age, probably big, strong, healthy men. You played football and basketball over floors like this, and thought, my, what a good strong body you had. And tonight, your shoulders are bending, your hair's turning gray. Just a few years does this. What's the matter? You're earthly, and you're going back to the earth.

L-26 A few years ago your granddad set under that great, big, stately tree out here, with his big, heavy limbs, and the winds a blowing it, and it would bow back and forth, like that; the winds couldn't even shake it hardly. Today the limbs are breaking, and falling off, and a snag in the top of it. Why is it? The earthly has to give a way for the eternal. That's right.
Look around today. Let's get back in history, and find Greece and Rome, and the great empires that raised up in great splendor, and their kingdoms in that day, and every one of them... I've walked in their ruins of the street, where they'd have to dig down thirty feet to find a relic of the great empires that the men pushed their chest out, and rode through chariots and things with halos (as it was), around their head, or wreaths, and thought they were someone. But today they're almost out of memory, and the cities are sunk, the kingdoms are gone. And too, our beloved America, someday will lay in the rubbish heaps of ruin. And men who go out here and give their lives to try to bring people together in a fellowship like that, when it's almost in vain... Today the very foundations of our civilization is rotted out. And you know that's true.


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