<TITLE>13. Par 51-55</TITLE>L-51 And many of the people wrote him letters to see his courage. That's what men looks for, is man of courage, not a little wishy-washy something. If you think you can get by by going to church and saying amen once in a while, and shouting a little bit, put your name on the book, and go back and live like the devil, your own works prove what you are. Your characters prove it out. But God... The world wants to see men that's courageous, somebody with courage who will stand out as a memorial of the saving grace of Jesus Christ. That's right.

L-52 The day when the bridge started, the rest of them come back, said, "Get ready; get your cameras ready," to all the newsmen, said, "because that bridge will fall."
That young fellow walked out there on that bridge, set his car down, looked back down, and seen them locomotives all lined up, and seen the Mayor there waving to him; he looked; he seen tens of thousands of footman standing back there ready to march with him, said, "Strike up the band." Brother, when the bands went playing, the whistles went to blowing, the horns went to going, I mean, there was an awful vibration taking place. But he walked right across that bridge and she never moved. Why? He took the forefront, 'cause if she was going to fall, let him go with it.

L-53 And Jesus Christ came from heaven to glory, from glory down here to build a Church. And the material that He's putting in it is time-tested material. You might come to the altar and make a confession, but when He finds blow holes and everything else in to where the world's blown the maggots in you, and so forth, you cannot stand; He just pitches you to one side. God wants a time-tested church, not somebody's a Christian today and a backslider tomorrow, and is in-and-out, up-and-down; He can't place you nowhere.
But He's got a church that's tested, went through the trials, through losses, through sickness, through sorrow, through death, and still standing with a testimony. That's the man. Yes, that's the man He's looking for. I don't care if you're a pauper; I don't care if you're a beggar. I don't care if you're a ragpicker. Whatever you are, God puts the test to you. He's looking for time-tested material.

L-54 I believe one of these days when that great church... When science says, "How can it lose? Gravitation will hold you to the earth..." Now, I feel religious. Let me tell you, that time-tested church will come into existence someday. There may be half of them sleeping in the dust of the earth. I don't know where they're at; but God's got His material all tested. One day He's coming to take the forefront (Hallelujah.), right through atmospheres, and stratospheres, and spheres, and spheres, into the Presence of Almighty God, He will go with a time-tested church. That's a memorial to His grace. That's a memorial that God gives Him.

L-55 "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him first." And every man that comes to Christ is a love gift from God, and Christ puts him to the test. And if he stands the test, He puts him in the bridge, tightens him down, gives him a position, and sets him there, knowing that he will hold to the end road. Amen. Time-tested material: "Upon this rock," not upon some rock of fanaticism, not upon a bunch of emotion, not upon a bunch of church theology, not upon some denomination, but "upon this solid Rock (Christ's Word) I'll build My church; and the gates of hell can never prevail against it." It'll be there; it'll be a memorial of His grace in the presence of the Angels.


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