<TITLE>09. Par 64-70</TITLE>L-64 Now, there's something wrong somewhere, so let's go back now. The background now we have laid. Let's go back, take our text of Romans 3:4. "Let every man's word be a lie, and God's Word the Truth."
Now, we're going to drive this down, and I want you to listen. Let it be God, Truth. Let's line up with what God said, regardless of what anybody else said. I want to use four different things of what I see in the Scripture that these insects has eat off of the church of the living God, and has got the vine of God crippled or stunted.

L-66 We'll admit; you Methodists will admit; you Baptists will admit; you Presbyterians, you Pentecostals, you Nazarenes, you all admit; the Tabernacle here admits there's something wrong. And we, the Tabernacle's just as guilty as the rest, for, "He that knoweth to do good, and do it not, to him it's sin."
Now, let's go back, and I want to name four things, just as Scriptural as I know how to be, that these insects has eaten from the Church, from its first original condition.

L-68 Now, the first thing, the church was established on the day of Pentecost. Peter preached the--the inauguration sermon at the baccalaureate service when the Church was born, the Christian Church was born on the day of Pentecost. And if God is infinite, infinite and cannot change, His Church must remain as It was at the beginning. Do you admit that? The Church must ever remain the same as it was.
But man has tinkered with it, put their own interpretations in it. Don't you never try to interpret the Word of God. Say just what It says and don't care how it is. So just line up with It; that's all. Don't change the Word. The Bible said, that the Scripture is not any private interpretation. We have no right to say these things; we just got to read It and say just exactly like It says, and believe It the same way. I don't care how ridiculous It seems; believe it anyhow.

L-70 The pulpit is no place for a joke. It's a place for sincerity. I do not mean this to be joking. I mean this to quote something that was told me. Said, there was an old colored brother down in the south, packed a Bible, and his boss was making fun of him; he said, "You can't read it, what do you pack it for?"
He said, "I pack It because I believe It." That's a good reason. "I can't read It but I know there's something in It that's right." Said, "I even believe the 'civer' on the outside of It; it's got 'Holy Bible' wrote on it. I believe It."
He said, "Anything that Bible would say do, I guess you'd do it?"
He said, "Yes, sir. If you read it out of the Bible, I'll do it if it's a commandment of God."
He said, "Then what if I read out of that Bible, and told you the Lord said for you to jump through that wall there, that big stone wall? How in the world would you ever jump through the stone wall if there's no hole in it?"
He said, "If you read that out of the Bible, and the Lord told me to jump, He'd have the hole there when I got there." And that's right.
God says so, no matter how ridiculous It seems, you step forward on It. It's up to God to take care of the rest of it. That's His business. It's your business to step.


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