<TITLE>06. Par 20-23</TITLE>L-20 You think I'm burning the women up? I want to tell you men something. Any man that'll let his wife do that and smoke cigarettes, just shows what the man's made out of. That's right. And you're a servant of God. You're the boss of the house. Oh, I don't mean to be scolding, but brother, each of you, I'm to stand shoulder to shoulder in the Presence of Christ someday. That's what the Bible teaches. And if I fail to tell you, then I'd rather have you a little angry with me now, then to point your finger in my face at that day and say, "If you'd have told me, I would've corrected it." But it'd be too late then.
I know, I'd better get away from that. But that's the things that the Holy Spirit has to bring to the Father. And in the great church, beautiful, all the way from the littlest church, all to the highest church, you find this: "The days of miracles is past. There's no such a thing as these prophetic gifts any more in the church; that was for the apostles." What do you think the Holy Spirit has to say in the Presence of the Father, when the Holy Spirit said, Jesus said, "If any man shall take anything out of this, or add anything to it, I'll take his part out of the Book of Life." What does the Holy Spirit think when He has to bring such message as that before the Father, of His children? Oh certainly, you cannot inherit anything that way.

L-21 And when a meeting comes, and a Spirit of God begins to work... We know that there's false; I know there's mental illusions; I know there's all kinds of illusions. Because the Bible said there would be. But where the church has let down, it ought to have the church taught and set up in such a way that it would know the right from wrong. See where we're at?
Then the Holy Spirit has to bring that type of a message to the Father. Oh, my, what must He say? A certainly, if that boy or any teacher knows, in the Bible, that if that boy wasn't an obedient child, yet he was a son, he never inherited anything. Any Bible reader knows that. Read Ephesians, 1st chapter the 5th verse. God predestinated us unto the children of God by the adoption of Jesus Christ, adopting and placing a son.

L-22 But now let's change the picture. And perhaps what if this child is an obedient child? Oh, they just are at--at the father's business, does just the same thing the father does, does the things that's pleasing as Jesus said He did. Then what does the tutor say, or the teacher, in the presence of the father? Oh, how he must swell his chest out, the Teacher, and walk up in the Presence of the Father and say, "Oh, Sir, Your boy, he's (excuse the expression, and I hope you won't think I'm sacrilegious,)... But He'd say, "He's just a chip off the old block. He's just exactly like You. He believes just the same thing that You wrote. He teaches everything just as You wrote it. He believes that You're the great I Am. And he knows that he's an off spring of Yours; and therefore, he stands for You, gallantly."
How the Father must say, "That's My boy." What a wonderful thing that would be. That's what God wants us to be: Be obedient.

L-23 Then what happens in that case? If that child was disobedient, that--yet he was a son; I'm not saying that you won't be saved, if you're borned again, you've got salvation, got Eternal Life; you'll go to heaven. But what you're missing here, if you're disobedient God might have to take you early; many things might happen to you. You'll always be a crippled church, divisions, "I belong to this; I belong to that." I'd like for the whole church to say, "I belong to Christ." Certainly. Your denominations are all right, if you just don't draw a fence. The pasture's for all the sheep, all denominations; it's God's Church, Christ's body.


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