<TITLE>12. Par -</TITLE>L-316-660 "What do we need with salvation?" Today people say, "Aren't we living under a good democratic form of government? What do we need?"
I don't care how much democratic form of government we live; we need the Blood of Jesus Christ. Right. We need Christ. I appreciate a democratic form of government; that has nothing to do with the salvation of the soul. Absolutely. Those governments will pass, and every nation will pass. And I've stood by the--where the pharaohs stood, and you have to dig twenty feet under the ground to find their thrones where they set. All the pharaohs and his kingdoms of this earth, and all of its faltery things will fail and go away, but Jehovah will reign forever, for He's the immortal God. Solidly upon the rock Christ Jesus we stand, for all other grounds is sinking sands.
Care whether it's... Kingdoms will arise and fail, but oh, there's nothing... I don't care whether it's anything. There's nothing present, nothing future, nothing, starvations, or perils or anything can ever separate us from that love of God that's in Christ. When a man is borned of the Spirit of God, he's a creature no longer of time, but he's a creature of eternity. Amen. He's passed from death unto Life. He's passed from the... He's passed from the time element into the eternity. He can never perish. And God swore that He'd raise him up in the last days.

L-316-663 So they can have all your big churches, and all your big times, and all you wish to, and tell your dirty jokes, and have your bunco games, and soup suppers, and everything else that you want to, and have some educated preacher standing there. Maybe he can do a better job at it than some of these little old boys hardly knows their abc's. But I'm telling you truth; I'd rather have a boy didn't know his abc's preaching to me, that knowed Christ, than all the great theologians there is with all you're educations could be thought of. Absolutely.

L-317-664 Down here in Kentucky not long ago, a little old boy that couldn't even hardly read his own name, said the Lord called him to preach and he wanted a schoolhouse. Why, the authorities wouldn't let him have it. Some great big preacher come by there with a handle on his name like that, some great doctor of divinity, why, they let him have the school. Sure. He held a two weeks revival, not one soul. And his father went back, said, "Now, if you let him have it, I'm a taxpayer; I got a right for my boy to have it. And my boy should have it also."
So he went back to find out, and after... They said, "Well, we'll let him have it at least two nights." And they went on and let him have it two nights.
And that night that little old boy got up there and couldn't even read the Bible, had somebody read his text. But when he walked to the platform, he was anointed with the Holy Ghost. And when he preached, about twenty come to the altar; and that self-styled preacher wept her way through to Calvary at the altar.
Sure, brother, it's not--not what you know; it's Who you know. That's the idea; that's what it takes. It takes to know Christ. To know Him is Life; to reject Him is death.

L-317-Q-67 Quickly to our other questions, the questions now that goes down to Georgia...
67. What do the stones in the--represent in Revelation 21:19 and 20?
If you wish to take the time to open your Bibles, which we haven't too much time now, but I'll try to answer them quickly. Revelation 20, I believe it's 21:19 and 20. Yes.
All right, in there you'll find out that he was talking of the stones that was in the building. And the stones were foundations. If you'll notice... I do believe you have it there, Brother Neville. And each stone was a foundation. Not one stone a foundation, and the others... But each stone was a foundation. Each stone was a constant foundation. And there were twelve stones. And if you notice those twelve stones, give each... First starting out with jasper, and sardius, and so forth like that, representing each stone.


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