<TITLE>02. Par 6-8</TITLE>L-6 I stood at Bombay, India, sometime ago with the Koran in my hand on one side, and the Bible on the other one, before, oh, a quarter of a million or more, Mohammedans. And I said, "Something... Someone has got to be right and someone's got to be wrong. These books both speak of a God, but contrary one to the other." Mohammedans believe that Jehovah God is God. But they believe that Mohammed was His prophet. We believe that there's one true and living God and Jesus is His Son. So I said, "Now, if Mohammed was His prophet, what Mohammed prophet--prophesied, if he was a prophet of God, it'll come to pass." I said, "If Jesus was the Son of God, then He was God of the prophet, and what He said will come to pass. They both wrote books, made promises; now let's see who keeps his promise."
Oh, my. Know that you can put them to a showdown, that God keeps His promise, every one of them. Don't be afraid to put it to a test. If you're the seed of Abraham, as we talked of last night, just believe it. God will bring it to pass, everything that He has promised. Because if He--if He doesn't, then this--He isn't God and this is not His Word, if it isn't. This is the promise. And if He doesn't keep His Word... That's the reason I believe solemnly in the Bible.

L-7 Now, I... No doubt but what I have plenty Catholic friends setting here this afternoon. I was asked by a Catholic friend of mine not long ago; he said, "Why is it that you don't return to the mother church?"
I said, "You're referring to the Catholic Church?"
He said, "Yes, sir." I said,
"I am a Catholic."
He said, "You're a what?"
I said, "I'm a Catholic."
And he said, "A Roman Catholic?"
I said, "Well, I'm just a Catholic, is all I know."
And he said, "How do you figure that?"
I said, "Is it true that you say that the Bible is a Book written by the early Catholic church, that Jesus Christ established the Catholic Church, Peter being the--the pope, and the apostles and so forth?"
He said, "That's correct."
"And the--the apostles was the first original Catholic Church."
He said, "That's true."
I said, "Then I'm an old time Catholic. I believe what the old-time Church taught, and not what the new Catholic church teaches, so I'm more of a Catholic then, than you are, 'cause I believe what they said first was right. These men walked with God." There's too much contrary. No other mediator between God, but that one Man, Christ Jesus. And we can't have a whole lot of virgins and saints and everything, mediators; there's one Mediator; that's Jesus Christ.
And the early church, the early Catholic church that walked with Him, and talked with Him, and wrote this Book, and the Holy Spirit in the back of it said, "If any man will take anything out of it or add anything to it..." This finishes it all, "if any man shall take away or add to, the same will be taken out of the book of life for him." So I'm an old-time Catholic, one of the first ones, the early apostle Catholic then.

L-8 So we love the Lord that way and stay with His Word, for what He has written we believe solemnly to be the truth. This is the truth of God. No contradiction, no misreadings, it's just the truth. Now, let us pray before we read it.
And while we have our heads bowed, I wonder how many'd like to be remembered in prayer, would you just raise your hands and say, "God, be merciful to me." Now, be thinking this, especially, you sinner friends. I was at breakfast this morning in your fair city. There was a newspaper laying there, and I noticed where Max Baer, the world champion, former world champion, dropped dead yesterday. A great rough fighter, burly, strong man, but did you read what his last words was? No matter how rough you are, when that time strikes you, you better be ready. No matter how--how religious you are, how much you go to church, you better be right with God when that strikes, 'cause that's it.


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