<TITLE>02. Par 5-9</TITLE>L-5 He said, "One time when I was practicing law," said, "I went down and I heard a few cases tried." And said, "When I heard the cases, I watched the emotions the attorneys went through." And said, "When I tried my first case, after I was sworn to the bench," he said, "I took off my coat. And it was a lady I was defending." And said, "I pounded on the desk. I cried. I walked back and forth." And said, "I thought I had the case whipped; that's all there was to it." And said, "The old judge set there. After while he wrapped on the ben--bench, and said, 'Judge, your honor, how much more can... of this ridiculous thing can your court stand?'"

L-6 Well, said, "Then I felt that I felt like I was just whipped." Said, "I walked out defeated." Said, "I went on home, and said, 'Well, I'll study something else. I'll never make a lawyer.'" Said, "After while somebody knocked on the door. And who was it, but," said, "the old attorney. And he come down. He said, 'Roy, I was watching you.'" And he said, 'You know, this court,' said, 'the reason I did that; I want you to be a real lawyer.' Said, 'I know it's in you to be a lawyer, but this court doesn't make its decisions upon your mental emotion.' Said, 'You had a lot of mental emotion, but you had no law in defense.' And he said, 'That's the reason I said that.'"

L-7 And I think that's a very good thing. I said, "Dr. Davis, I thank you."
He said, "Billy, all of your emotions, and going on, and tying Samson to the post, and whipping him and putting his eyes out, you didn't get very much Scripture. Men are not saved by emotions and all the little sad stories you tell. Man's saved by the Word of God." That certainly fixed me up.
Since then I've decided this, that God doesn't judge us upon our emotions or upon our affiliations with church, but He will... judges us by His Word. Heavens and earth shall pass away, but God's Word shall never pass away.
Now, in the day that we're living and the times that we're living in, I think it behooves us to check up with the Word of God and see where we're living and the hour we're living.

L-8 Now, God spoke of this day. And this day is one of the most outstanding days that the world has ever seen. It is one of the greatest times to preach the Gospel that the world has ever knowed.
Now, in the Old Testament there was about three ways of knowing the will of God. Of course, one the them was the written law; the next was by a prophet; the next was by a dreamer. And when a prophet prophesied or a dreamer dreamed, they let that speak before the Urim Thummim, and that was the breastplate that was on Aaron's breast. And in there was stones that represented each tribe. And if that prophet was right, or that dreamer was right, there come a sacred light over that breastplate, and was called Urim Thummim. And no matter how real it seemed... I want you to get it. No matter how real it seemed, if those lights didn't flash on the Urim Thummim, God had refused the message. Any Bible scholar knows that.

L-9 The Urim Thummim has been done away with, 'cause that priesthood ended. But God's Urim Thummim today is God's Word. The Word is His Urim Thummim. Woe unto him that'll add or take away anything from this Book. This is God's eternal truth. And in the day where there's people saying, "Oh, we don't need the Bible. It's been translated fifteen times or more; how do we know it's right?" Till heavens and earth passed away, God's Word will never pass away. Every doctrine and everything else of the Bible, that we have in the church, must be based upon the Word of God, must come from the Word. Not just one place, but from Genesis to Revelation it must say the same thing, 'cause we cannot base our thoughts upon one little Scripture. For the Bible said, "In the mouth of two or three witnesses, let every word be established."


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