<TITLE>07. Par 62-73</TITLE>L-62 Paul said, "You--you--you go to extremes with that. When you ought to be teaching, you're still babies and have to have milk."

L-63 That's what I've always tried to contend this tabernacle to be, not a bunch of babies. Let's be grown-up. Stand on the road. Oh, my! There you are.

L-64   So, Paul goes down there, first, to see if his experience matched God's Bible.

L-65 Oh, wouldn't it be wonderful, today, if people only done that again, if we made our experience match God's Bible? If it doesn't, then our experience is wrong; it don't flash in the Urim Thummim. If it flashes in There, amen, we got It. But if it doesn't, some... I don't care how good it seems, how real it looked like it was right; if those lights didn't flash on that Urim Thummim, it was wrong.

L-66 And no matter how much experience you've had, how real it seems to be, how presenting it is, how educational it is, what a great tool it is to win souls; if it doesn't flash in the Word, it's wrong. Right. It must line up with the Word.

L-67   Now, I believe, and there's a middle of the road. The road, now, a lot of times... I used to go to a Nazarene church. The Lord bless those dear people. Old-fashioned, sanctified Methodists is what they are; church of God, Nazarene, Pilgrim Holiness, and many of those good old holiness churches. And they used to sing a song:
I'm walking in the grand old highway,
Telling everywhere I go,
I'd rather be an old-time Christian, Lord,
Than anything I know.

L-68 Good. Wonderful. And then they used to talk about the highway of holiness. Now, if you read over that, they get that out of Isaiah, the 35th chapter. Now, if you notice, he said, "There shall be a highway, and a way."

L-69 Now, and is a conjunction. See? A highway, it wasn't a highway of holiness. "It shall be a highway, and a way, and it shall be called, 'The way of holiness,'" not the highway of holiness. "The way of holiness!" And the way of the road is in the middle of the road. It's built like this so that the waters will wash off the trash, to both sides, keeping the road clean. You don't, you have puddles standing in your road, all the time, if it isn't built right. "The way" is the middle of the road.

L-70   Now, on this side, when people get converted, their minds is set right on Christ. And if they're just a little scholarly, and don't keep under prayer, they'll get real cold, and stiff, and starchy, and indifferent. And then if they're just a little bit nervous, if you don't watch, they'll just get radical and wild, on this side, see, they go into sensations and everything.

L-71 Now, but, the real Church is a real sane Gospel, right in the middle of the road. It's not cold and starchy, neither is it fanaticism. It's a real good, old, warm Gospel, heart-felt love of God, going right down the middle of the road, calling from both sides. That's right. Now that's what... And how you going to get that, church? Right out of the Word, the Urim Thummim.

L-72   Now, Paul wanted to get this church right in the middle of the road, so he went and studied three years on the Scriptures that he knew. Therefore, Paul wrote the bigger part of this New Testament. God had him do that because it's coming a Gentile age. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, the four Gospels, they were Jews. But Paul wrote the most of the letters.

L-73 Now notice, now, we're going to start getting this background now, where he's at, writing It, from prison. And he's had all this experience. But, first, this experience was first proven, and this is his key letter to it. This is his key letter. Romans and Ephesians, and so forth, have their place, but this is the key letter.


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