<TITLE>05. Par 17-21</TITLE>L-17 God hates sin, and sin must be judged. It's been said, that if God doesn't judge America pretty soon for its sin, He will have to resurrect Sodom and Gomorrah and apologize to them. Certainly. And we will reap what we sow, and everybody that's got any spirituality to them is realizing that's the truth. We're at the end of the road.
And to know that you are in safety in Christ, and there's only one way you could be there, that was because God elected you to be there. "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him first." And all that God gives Him, He will raise him up at the last days.

L-18 Now, Jesus begin to speak and say, "As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of man." Now, notice some of the things He said. He said, "At the day of Noah they were eating, drinking, marrying, given in marriage." You know where the most divorces is in all of the world? In United States of America. It's got the highest divorce rate there is anywhere in the world.

L-19 And notice what He said as it was in the days of Lot. "In the days of Lot," said, "they were eating, marrying, given in marriage." And they were building, planting. Did ever you see such a time of building, progress? Look at man a hundred years ago, he's the same man that he was six thousand years ago. But he never progressed very much till about a hundred years ago. It hasn't been much over that till the only way they could send a message was by a letter and a runner. Now, it's telephone, telegram, television. How quick around the world, in less than two minutes, a message can sweep the earth, when two hundred years ago, it would have to be packed by a runner.
Look at the difference. A French scientist said three hundred and fifty years ago, that if a man ever went the terrific speed of forty miles an hour, gravitation would lift him off the earth. Now, they're going nineteen hundred miles an hour and still going on now with a sputnik at the rate of eighteen thousand miles an hour, whirling the earth. And it'll have a man in it before a year from now. Sure. Progress has picked up quickly; it's in a--a doubleheaded speed. God said it would be that way.

L-20 Now, sometimes we wonder why we haven't got all these great things that the rest of the people have, why we can't be up in the up-and-ups. I don't want in this earthly's up-and-ups; I want in God's up-and-ups.

L-21 Notice. In the beginning when the two boys, both Cain and Abel, come to worship God, they both built churches; they both built altars; they both belonged to church. They both was respectable; they both had the same idea that God was God, and in sincerity they knelt down and worshipped God. One was just as fundamental as the other. If God only respects fundamentalism, He had to accept Cain just the same as He did Abel or He would've been unjust. Notice it. Something happened to Abel, that he knowed what to do.


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