<TITLE>08. Par 35-38</TITLE>L-35 And now, after going, journey all day looking among their kinfolks, and they couldn't find Him... I wonder tonight, how many people in here has went over to the Baptist church, and took up with the Baptist... Now there's nothing... I'm not kicking against churches. I'm for every one of them. But what I'm for is--against is they're making their creeds and drawing lines and boundaries. If every church stayed right straight on the Bible, and just read it the way and don't tamper with it, just leave it the way God wrote it... But they'll go a little piece, say, "Oh, that was for another age." It's no other age. God is the same, yesterday, today, and forever.

L-36 Now, you'll go a day's journey, and you'll look around, and you'll see a certain creed, and then you'll think, "Well, maybe this is it." And you'll go in and you'll look around. There'll be someone in there that'll do something. You'll say, "This is not it." You'll get your letter from that church and take it over to another. And then you'll be in there for a few days, or maybe weeks, or months, or even years. Somebody will upset that little apple cart of yours, and away you'll go with your letter somewhere else. And from there to somewhere... You're never settled.
The Bible said you're like wandering stars, ships without sails, tossed about by every wind of doctrine, when the Bible forbids us to do that. Be stable. Know where your standing. Don't base it... Now, you could be honestly sincere with that, being stable. You could be a stable Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Catholic, or whatevermore, just as stable. But don't be stable in your church doctrine; be stable in the Bible doctrine. Then examine your doctrines by the Bible. Ask what Jesus was. If He isn't the same today, then your doctrine's wrong.

L-37 You have an example. And He said, "I am your example. I have given you an example that you should do to each other as I have did unto you," St. John 13.
Now, but you find out that's what happens. Now, there's only one real way to find Him then. If she couldn't find Him among the kinfolks, she went back to where she left Him.
That's what the church ought to do: Go back where you left Him at, and there you'll find Him. You Methodists, Baptists, and Pentecostals, and Assemblies of God, and all of you, Branham Tabernacles, and so forth, go back where you left Him at.

L-38 Reminds me of a chaplain sometime ago at the second World War. He was telling me that he was machined--went to a--a man that was a machine gunned. They'd told him that he was dying. He'd been shot through the chest with a machine gun, many bullets. And he said, "The man's a dying." And the chaplain went in to see him. He was a captain. And he walked into the tent; he said, "Captain, are you a Christian?"
He said, "Well, I once was a Christian."
He said then, "What happened?"
He said, "I just don't remember how it started." And he looked at his chart, and he seen he'd just given about three to five minutes to live. And the good part of that time was already spent. How little do we know but a lot of our time's already spent too.
And the chaplain said to the captain; he said, "Captain, where did you leave Him at?"
Well, he said, "I just can't remember right now."
Said, "You better hurry up, for you haven't got much time to go back down the road to where you left Him." And said, "Ever where you left Him then go right there and begin and you'll find Him."


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