<TITLE>12. Par 36-39</TITLE>L-36 Don't let your children... If he runs across the street to little Oswald over here, he's a nice little boy; but be careful who little Oswald is. Find out what his daddy is, what his mama is. They may be a hater of the Gospel. They may have everything projected into little Oswald. And you let your little boy or girl associate like that, and the first thing you know, he will come up and be like little Oswald. Now, you know that's right.
Watch your associates. Keep your company clean. Don't go in the poolroom with that boy just because you think you can win him to Christ. If you can't win him to Christ in the church, or out at your own home, or setting in your car, you'll never do it in the poolroom. I tell you, you're on the devil's grounds. Stay away from it. That's right. Separate yourself. God said, "Come out from among them and be ye separate," saith God, "and then I'll receive you." God's looking for somebody who's got the--the courage to stand forth. God's always wanted that.
And every man of God that's ever stood, from Genesis to Revelations, and from Revelations to this modern time, has disagreed and set himself apart from the world ecclesiastical system: That's the churches of the world in their day.

L-37 Any of them, you search through the Scriptures, and search through the history, and find out. Martin Luther, John Wesley...?..., Calvin, Knox, Finney, Sankey, whoever it might be, just look at them, how they come out from among them things and stood alone upon their convictions, God's servants.
And sometimes even in your own family, you'll have to stand alone. Sometimes your mama and papa will disagree with you. Sometimes auntie and uncle, sometimes your lodge members will disagree with you. If God's Word, you're standing on That, stay if you stand alone on God's Word. For every man that ever amounted to a hill of beans, stood on God's Word with his testimony. That's right, 'cause it's the only way to be a--to make the goal.

L-38 Now, this here fellow Jehoshaphat come down, 'cause Ahab invited him down. And he killed ox and sheep and had a great big blowout. And a lot of times we get in trouble around these big, what we call blowouts, these big social affairs where they're have their parties, and all their carrying on, and so forth. And when they did this, maybe Jehoshaphat got a few extra steaks, and a few glasses of gin, or whatever they had to--to drink down there. And Ahab said, "Now, I'm going up to Ramoth-gilelid--gilead, and I want you to go up with me."
Well, Jehoshaphat all under the influence of the big fine things and the revi...

L-39 That's the way the devil does. He shows you the bright side. And that kind of a bright side, if it doesn't tally with God's Word, is a mirage. You know what a mirage is, is something that looks like it is. It's an optical illusion. So it isn't there when you get there. You know, go down the road, looks like water; when you get there, there's no water. That's the way the devil does you. He's always a promising something out yonder, out yonder, showing you something bright. When you get there, it's never that way.
Stay with the Word, you're on the line then. You're in God's blueprint. Stay right there. What God says, no matter what it looks like, you don't... Faith--faith is not what you see; it's things you don't see. You confess the things that you don't see. "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."


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