<TITLE>02. Par 8-11</TITLE>L-8 Now, remember, I've said, the first word when you hear the tapes, "These things is just according to the way I believe them to be right." See? Now, if they are wrong, I don't--I don't know they are. I... And I can only say what I believe. And I don't mean to hurt anyone's feelings. We must just lay them aside when we come in, and then take the thing that's been said, and search it, and see if it's really the Scriptures or not. That's the best way to do it then, because in a day like we're living in now, in a nation where it's been gleaned over and over and over and over by all kinds of everything, well, it's hard to get people to really just grasp It. Like it is in a virgin territory, you tell them; they believe it; that's the way it goes on.

L-9 But now, one will come along with this idea, and one will come along with this idea, and we got about nine hundred and something different denominational churches, and each one contrary (his teaching) to the other; and there's got to be somebody wrong and somebody right. So now, the only proof of it is, is bring it back to the Bible (See?), let the Bible... Now, many times, people put their own interpretation. But we try the very best that we can, not to put any human interpretation on It: just read It like It is, and say, "That's the way It is."
And then I've always noticed, if you'll take just what He said, it'll make everything dovetail just exactly right in the Scripture. It's almost like putting a jigsaw puzzle together; you have to look at the pattern before you can get the puzzle together right. If you don't, I always said, "You'd have a... In your scene, you'd have a cow picking grass on top of a tree." So it just wouldn't look right.

L-11 And if we just let the Holy Spirit... Who wrote the Bible? The Holy Spirit moved on men and wrote the Bible. Then without the Holy Spirit, no matter how well you're educated, you'll never understand It. Because even Jesus thanked God that He'd hid It from the eyes of the wise and prudent, and would reveal It to babes such as would learn. And every one of the disciples were more or less illiterate and unlearned people, but one, and that was Paul. And Paul said he had to forget all he ever knowed in order to find Christ. So he told the Corinthian church, that he didn't come with the wisdom of men and great speech, because then their--their faith would be in the wisdom of men, but he came to them in the power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit, that their faith would rest upon the works of the Holy Spirit according to the Word of God. And there's where we're trying to hang so close to right now, because before the week's over, or time the week's over, you'll see it; that's exactly what's been that little thread coming down through the age all along.


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