<TITLE>02. Par 7-10</TITLE>L-7 This Catholic friend of mine said, "What's the strange thing to me, Billy, is this, that you have not come back to the Mother Church, the Catholic Church."
"Well," I said, "I have never left it."
And 'course, this was most amazing to this fellow. As he looked at me strangely, I said, "You know, as according to the teaching of the church, that Christ founded the Catholic church, and put over it the twelve apostles, Peter being the first pope. And they, by inspiration, wrote the Bible. And the Bible is the history of the early Catholic church. And then the claims of the church is, that it has power to change these rules whenever it wants to, or sees fit to do so." I said, "Therefore, I just believe the Bible, just the way It's written. And that was the doctrine of the first Catholic church. So I am an old fashion Catholic then, believing in its first doctrine; because I read that the Founder said in the last part of His Book (That was Jesus Christ.), that, "Whosoever shall take away one word or add one to it, the same will be taken out of the Book of Life for Him." Therefore, I'm an old fashion Catholic like the first Catholic church was, if the Bible was written by the first Catholic church."

L-8 Jesus, when He came on earth, He found, as He would find today, teachers of the Scriptures, teaching things that wasn't so by the inspired Word.
They were talking on the subject of divorce, as you see the previous part of the Scriptures was teaching. And they had said that they had a commandment that the woman should be put away for any cause. Jesus said, "Moses did this because of the hardness of your heart, but it wasn't so from the beginning."
We have to go back and find out what the foundation is. And then, if we can get the foundation, then we can build on a solid foundation. And no building is any stronger than its foundation, because the complete building is resting upon that foundation. Every pilaster, every window, and all the building rests upon that foundation.

L-9 And if God has said anything, it is the most solid foundation that we can rest on. Faith can rest on no other. Faith cannot find its resting place upon the shifting sands of people's ideas. But it takes its everlasting stand upon the unmovable Rock of God's eternal Word. We can rest on it if God said so. That should settle it.
But we find that it's just in the heart of man to pervert something, or to make it seem more up-to-date. But nothing can be more up-to-date than what God has said.
I feel about it like the old darkie was down in the south. He was packing the Bible? And they said to him, "Mose, why do you pack that Bible?" Said, "You can't even read one word in it. And why do you carry that Bible under your arm?"

L-10 And the expression from the old man was this: "I carry It, boss, because I believe It. And I believe It so much, that I believe It from civer to civer, and the civer also; for on the civer it's written, 'Holy Bible.'" Said, "I'd rather be standing on this Bible in the hour of my death than to be standing in heaven."
And the man who was speaking to the old gentleman said, "That's quite a statement, Mose, for you to make,"
He said, "The reason I say it, boss, is because that It's more sure to stand than heaven is. For in this Bible it is written by Jesus Christ, (its inspired Author), that, 'Heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word shall never fail.'"
I think we all feeled about like that. Let God's Word, way He wrote It, no private interpretation, just speak for Itself when no one has polluted It. Read It; believe It. It may seem strange, some of its quotations. But God sometimes works in mysterious ways. His wonders to perform. We must believe It.


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