<TITLE>02. Par -</TITLE>L-2-5 The devil has messengers; God has messengers. And we are at liberty to make our choice to whom we will yield ourself to, that's whose servants we are. But if you notice, as I was preaching last Sunday of the thirst that's in people, man... God made man to thirst, but to thirst after Him. That's why thirst was placed in a man. But the devil comes along, and perverts that, and causes the people to thirst after him with the things of the world.
The Bible said, "If ye love the world or the things of the world, the love of the Father is not in you." Then you see, the devil perverts. He can't create anything, but he can pervert what God has already created. The devil is not a creator; he's just a perverter of the original creation.
What is sin? It is righteousness perverted. How many understand that? See? Good, I was just wondering.

L-2-8 I am a Southerner, and we are just used to a little more response than that. And the--the northern people are conservative, and--and I've been in the south so long till I... You just have to get used to my southern ways, or me your yankee ways. But I want you to know we won the war. Yeah, we got no argument about that. There's one southerner living and no yankees, so we won the war.
I thought it was most striking when that little yankee was dying, oh, and the southerner sent him a telegram that said, "God bless you, yankee. I hope to see you again pretty soon." That's... Why couldn't they have thought that in the beginning (you see?) and just let it go? But I like to say that, that there is only... It taken the spans of life to win the war, but we finally got it. All right. But there is a great time coming.

L-3-2 And now, speaking of the--the enemy, of how he perverts righteousness into unrighteousness... Now, that we're a mixed multitude, both men and women, most all adults, so I am sure you'll understand. You'd listen to your doctor, and I'm your brother.
It is legal, and lawful, and godly for a man to take himself a wife, and to live with this wife. But another woman could be the same thing to him, but it would be death to touch her. There's the difference: righteousness perverted.

L-3-4 That's the way all sin is, is righteousness perverted. God made you to thirst after Him; and God made the church to be oneness under His dominion, but the devil makes them oneness under his domain.
And now, if you'll notice in the Mohammedan religion some of the things... If we would just could take the time, the things that are... how they are perverted. In the Mohammedan religion (which I have had the privilege of visiting the country near the grave of Mohammed) and at his grave has been a white horse that's been standing there for two thousand years. Every four hours (I think it is.) they change the guard, and a white horse saddled and waiting for the resurrection of Mohammed... And they say that he will raise from the dead, get on the horse, and conquer the world.

L-3-6 Then you see, they are watching for the conqueror to come riding on a white horse. And how that is perverted from the Scripture, because Jesus is coming, riding on a white horse, His vesture dipped in Blood, His Name the Word of God. But you see the devil's taken that theory and perverted it to Mohammed. But truly Jesus will come on the white horse. The Bible says that He will.
You can get in any false cult that you wish to, and you'll see many great symbols of true Christianity.

L-4-1 Now, in the tower of Babylon, if you'll notice that tower... it was the beginning of Babylon, which I will speak on later this week, the Lord will. Babylon, the very city, was patterned out of heaven. And in there they had the River Euphrates flowing right by the throne. And the garden, swinging gardens... and that's patterned off of heaven, for the River of Life thro--flows by the throne of God. And you see, the achievements that man was doing, was making a pattern--perverting.


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