<TITLE>08. Par 26-29</TITLE>L-26 It puts me in the mind of a man with a bird in a cage. He goes and gives him the best food he can: bone building, to make good strong bones on his canary. But he keeps him in the cage, so he can't fly. What good does it do to give him good orthodox food, if you keep him penned up? That's what's the matter today; you're sending preachers to seminaries, and being very orthodox, and trying to give the best food, but they're afraid to come out and tell the people that their faith can set them free and make them healed and well; and Jehovah's still the same. What good does it do to have a Bible study? What good does it do to preach the Gospel if you keep the people in a cage? Brother, every one of you tonight can take the Word of the living God, and go from here just as free as a bird out of a cage. Amen.
What good does a God, that healed a man at the gate called Beautiful, if He isn't the same God tonight? If He's lost His power, if His Word isn't true tonight, as it was then, His promises isn't right...

L-27 Oh, I was... My righteous indignation was burnt up the other night, when I heard that Catholic teacher, national wide, said this Bible wasn't nothing; but try to live by It was like wading through a bunch of mud puddles: blaspheming. And said, "What was it?" Said, "Maybe God taken notion up in heaven He was going to send you down a Bible, so he got some angels, and wrote it and had a little angel come to the portals of glory and come down and hand it to you." Said, "It was a Catholic creed." Said, "The apostles and Mark, Luke, and John never wrote nothing. Just a bunch of stuff that was wrote out and half of it was true and tales that was told, and everything..." I believe that every word is solemnly the truth of God. Yes, sir. And I believe, he said, "Now, that is the word that was some kind of a hearsay history of the Catholic church years ago." He said, "But the church is moving on today." If the Catholic Church is the true church of God and it don't stand by its original word, if it's the Word of God, then there's something wrong somewhere.
 The Bible said, "Woe unto him that'll take anything out of here or add anything to It. The same will be taken out of the Book of Life."

L-28 If Jesus Christ... Not only Catholics take it out, but Protestants too. Sure they do; they dice it, and cut it, and "This is inspired, and that's not; and this is..." to make it fit your petty doctrines. Brother, every word of It's inspired, and every word of It is just as good today as It was the day that Jesus sealed the--it--the Book there with His Blood at Calvary. Every promise is yea and amen to the believer.

L-29 Bartimaeus set there looking around. Directly he thought, "You know what? Maybe not a--two hundred yards this a way, the great warrior Joshua was walking around one day, and as he drew near the wall, within a bowshot from the wall, he looked, and there stood a Man with His sword drawn. And Joshua, being a warrior, he drew his sword. And he went to meet Him. And he said, "Are You with us, or are You our enemy?" 
And the Man said, "Nay. I am the Captain of the Host of the Lord," and said, "Think, His feet stood two hundred yards from where I am right now." Little did he know that the same Captain was coming out the gate in a few minutes. Amen.


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