<TITLE>06. Par 30-34</TITLE>L-30 Now, on the 2nd chapter and the 8th verse we begin tonight. Now, what did we leave Him on last night? He was certainly--hated that Nicolaitane. Is that right? Now, what does God do? What we have to--found out first? The revelation of Jesus Christ, Who He is and What He is. Now, the next great thing we find out, that He hates anything that'll put anything to rule over His church besides Himself. He is a jealous God.
How I'd like to stop, 'cause we just got four verses here, just to quote a little something. How many can remember when the good prophet Samuel, when all of Israel wanted to act like the rest of the world? You remember that? And the prophet told them, said, "You're wrong." But they wanted to act like the Philistines and like the--the rest of them. Well, that's exactly what happened in this very first church age. It's strange that people don't want God to lead them. They want to follow... They want some man. Israel, made the greatest mistake it ever made, when grace had already provided them a prophet, a leader, provided them a lamb as an atonement, and provided them food from the heavens, and all the good things that grace had provided them; and still in Exodus 19 they wanted a law. They wanted to make doctors of divinity, and have some men; they wanted to have something to do into it too.

L-32 Man's always trying to outsmart the very Creator that made him, and he doesn't do a thing but kill hisself. As a few Sundays ago I preached on the--the "Hybrid Religion." That's exactly. When you hybreed anything, you can never, it's done. It's finished; it can't come back no more. A mule can never breed back and have another mule, because he--he's a mule; he's a hybrid. Fine corn, you can't raise fine corn off of fine hybrid corn. It won't even... It might come up, but it's--oh, it's no good at all. You can't do it. Anything that's hybrid's no good.
And a hybrid religion's no good. As long as you're trying to add something to what God said, or do something that God don't want you to do, it's a hybrid religion. It might look pretty. Oh, hybrid corn will outshine the natural corn. An old mule will outwork two horses. Well, that's... It ain't working, brother; it's grace that we're saved by: not by works are we saved, but by grace. So that might...
I hope you don't think these remarks... You're--you're setting under strain, and I--I feel it up here. You see? Because there's Presbyterian, Methodists, and all kinds in here. We know that. And so I--I feel it. And you have to relax yourself a little once in a while, get that shake off like.

L-34 Now, listen. Anything that's hybrid is no good. You got to take the original, the way God made it, then you got something that's real.
Now, we find out then that this church of Israel, as they passed on, God had fed them, and taken care of them, and done everything for them. And finally they looked over to the Philistines, and the Amorites, and the--and different ones, and said, "We want a king. They got something we ain't got."
That's the same thing the people does today. One of these... Our sisters will look over at the television and see Gloria Swanson, or whoever they, some of them women with a certain kind of a dress on, and they just can't stand it till they get one. See? You see some woman downtown, "Oh, isn't that darling?" What do you care what she aims to wear? People are just that way. I said it's the day of--of impersonation: somebody wants to impersonate the other. You take the... There's so many Elvis Presley's now, I--I tell you, you couldn't sack them up in boxcars, because he become popular in: carnal comp--impersonations.


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