<TITLE>04. Par 12-16</TITLE>L-12 A few days ago, I'll tell you about it later in the--one of the services, something happened to me. In all the visions that the Lord God has ever given me... I had something to happen that's made a change, a definite change in me. Because I was taken somewhere that I never was before, but I certainly hope that I go back someday. And I will tell you about it in another meeting.
But speaking of to whom would we go, or could we go, let's just look at about, I've got seven things written down here. The reason that we should go to Jesus, to find this that no one else has but Him. Seven reasons... There's thousands of reasons, but I thought maybe we could draw from these seven reasons something tonight that might give us a hold to get started on, something that would give us an enthusiasm, something that would encourage us to--to take a better hold.

L-13 The first thing we are thinking of that as we are going out of this world (We are sure of that.), we do not want to go the wrong direction. We want to go to heaven when we leave this world. Every person wants to do that. And there's only one heaven. We all know there's no four or five heavens. There's one heaven, and there's one way to get to that heaven. And Jesus said, "I am that Way." That's the reason why that we must get to Jesus, because He is the way.
Now, I know that there are other claimed ways. There are ways that people try to say, "If I live the golden rule, or keep the Ten Commandments, or stop eating meats, or some religious acts..." which is all right, if they want to believe that. But still, that isn't the way to heaven. Jesus is the Way. I do not say that you that want to do those things won't go to heaven, but you'll have to find Jesus first, because He is the Way, "the," the only way.

L-14 And now, there is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end is death. And there's a way that we try to go: Many people belong to lodges. Our pastor buried his sister-in-law the other day, that we'd tried to get her to turn from thinking that her lodge was what was going to take her to heaven. But because she belonged to a certain society in a lodge... Which the lodge is... That's up to them.
We are not here to condemn men for--sinners for sinning. We are here to condemn the man on a higher level than that. We are here to condemn sin, not the sinner. Man does not lose his life because he is a sinner; he loses his life because he refuses to accept his life. And his life is in Christ Jesus. He's the only one that has Eternal Life.
And this woman would not give up the idea that her lodge was just as good as any church or anything else--woman with cancer, and the pastor buried her day before yesterday.

L-15 Now there is a way that people think that they just live a good life and can get to heaven. But that's an error. You do not get to heaven by living a good life. The people under the Mosaic law lived a good life.
And then there is a way of church, that we try to go to heaven by the way of the church. But the church, as good as it is... And I think that every person ought to belong to some church. But in the church, and as good as it is, it still is not the way. The church can only point you to the Way. But Jesus is that Way. Some has preferred it that way, to change it into learning your catechism, or saying creeds, or going by a book of rules. All of that may be ever so good, but that's not the way. Jesus is the Way. He's the only Way. "No man can come to the Father except by Me," said Jesus. The only way to get to heaven is through Jesus Christ.

L-16 Today, I'm astonished, many times, as I ask people, "Are you a Christian?"
They say, "I'm a Methodist."
"Are you a Christian?"
"I'm Baptist, or I'm Presbyterian, or even Pentecostal, or Pilgrim Holiness, or some church."
Now, them may be all right, but that isn't the question. The question is, "Are you a Christian?" And you cannot be a Christian until you have received Christ, Christ in you.


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