<TITLE>02. Par 5-8</TITLE>L-5 Now, I... 'Course you know that I never have yet... I was ordained in the Missionary Baptist church. And I... after leaving the Missionary Baptist church, I have never taken up any affiliation with any churches since--any certain denominations-- because I try to stand right in the breach between them all and say we're brethren. And I believe that is right, that we are brethren. And so, therefore, I don't represent any certain denominational church, but I represent the Church, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's where all of you belong, in that great body of Christ. And we're looking for that day to come when He will rapture His church to go home. And the Lord willing, this week I want to speak on some of that: and on The Tie Post of the Church Going, the Handwriting on the Wall, and United Under God, and a few things of that type, the Lord willing, in these... this coming week.
Now, I believe that this is the true foundation, the Bible. I believe that God does many things that's not in the Bible. He can do anything, because He's God. But I--I think that doctrine should come out of the Scripture: that that is God's Book to us.

L-6 Now, in the Old Testament they had two or three ways of knowing whether it was truth or not, and that is, they would go back to what they called the Urim Thummim. And that was... I've been told that was the breastplate that Aaron had, that had the--the twelve stones in it. And then when the prophet prophesied or dreamer told his dream, and--and it did not--a conglomeration of lights-- flicker on this Urim Thummim, then the prophet was wrong. See, God always had a way of answering in supernatural (See?); always the truth is known. So if that would not flash, then the man... the prophet was wrong.

L-7 And now, after that priesthood was done away with... And we have a new priesthood tonight, Jesus Christ being the High Priest. We have a new Urim Thummim, and that's the Bible. "Take away or add to, the same shall be taken from the Book of Life." So we'll try our best, by God's help, to stay right in these pages. I've often said this: I do not want any less than God has in the Bible and, but I want all that He has in the Bible--just all the promises that's to us.

L-8 So before we open His Word for our text, let us bow our heads, just a moment for prayer.
Eternal and blessed God, it is such a grand privilege, tonight, that we have of standing in Thy Divine Presence, under this great tent where your children are assembled together for no other purpose but to hear the Word and to see the moving of the Living God. And we would ask tonight that You would pour out Your blessings upon us in a--a great way. Change our ways of thinking, if they're wrong, Lord, and set our thinking on Thy Son, the Lord Jesus. May our hearts be filled with His Presence. And when we leave tonight from the meeting, may we say like those who came from Emmaus, "Did not our hearts burn within us as He talked to us along the road?"
And now, Father, we pray that the Holy Spirit will just take these few words that's to be read and will pour out the context of them in every heart. Grant it, Lord. Help me, Father, as I'm standing here, that my soul may rejoice in Your blessed Presence, for we ask it in Jesus' name, amen.


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