<TITLE>02. Par 5-8</TITLE>L-5 So I took him out on the walk. I said, "Son, you're coming away from there right now. I'm going to send you to Bible school, no matter how lonesome you get." And so I said, "I want you to stretch out your arms like this."
And he did. He said, "What's the matter?"
I said, "This is left and this is right. Now, you cannot be going both ways the same time. You're in the shape of a cross." And I said, "As long as you're going right, you may think you're going wrong; but you've got to come out right. You can't go east and west at the same time. You can't be doing right and wrong at the same time."
Sometimes people are going wrong, thinking they're doing right; but it'll wind up wrong. So always think right, do right, and you'll come out right; you just got to. That's exactly. Do right; that's your duty to God. Think right; know that you've got to come out right; and you will come out right.

L-6 Then I always had a little slogan I said to the people that I married. You see the young couple, and they come up before me, I always think of Christ and His Bride, that great wedding supper that we're all anxious to attend. And to see them there, they're young youth; and they're bright eyes, as they're standing there to take this vow to bind them through life's journey.
Always say to them something like this: "Now, you want to be happy, and you cannot be happy without Christ. There's no home happy without Christ." I just want you to show me one. You have some make-belief, but you can't be happy without Christ. Right. No, you're just--you're painting a fire.
Like a person pretending to be a Christian... How can you get warm by a fire that's been painted? Painted fire won't warm. It takes real fire to warm.

L-7 We can read back and see what the Holy Ghost done on the day of Pentecost. That was on Pentecost two thousand years ago. If that same fire doesn't bring the same results today, what good does a historical God do us, if He isn't the same God today?
It's like feeding your canary bird vitamins to make good strong wings and feathers and put him in a cage. What good does does his wings do him. See? If you're not going to preach the full Gospel, and believe everything, and receive the Holy Ghost like it was then, what good does it do to have a Bible, if He is the same God? See, it--it's a--He's got to be the same, or it doesn't do no good to go to school and learn theology and things, if you want to place Him back as a historical God. He's the same tonight.

L-8 And I always tell my young couples like this: that happiness does not consist of how much of the world's goods you own, but how contented you make yourself with the portion that's 'lotted to you. That's right too.
I've seen couples that didn't have nothing. I married a couple here some years ago. I don't know how they ever asked me to marry them, but the boy was a friend of mine. His father worked the public service company with me, very sharp, intelligent-looking young man, and he married a millionaire's daughter. The door knobs was fourteen carat in their home. And I had to practice the--the ceremonies so long, going back in there, and throwing rice and stuff, and kneeling on a silk pillow. And oh, such a ceremony...


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