<TITLE>02. Par 5-8</TITLE>L-5 Not no place for jokes... The pulpit is no place for jokes. I think the Word of God should be preached from here with the solemnness of the--of the heart, and we should remember it. But just to say that... To make this point, the old darkie, here somewhere in the South, one time made a statement, said, "He'd rather be standing on the Word of God than stand in the heavens." They asked him why. He said, "'Cause both heaven and earth will pass away, but God's Word shall not." That's right. We got to stay on the Word.

L-6 Jesus, when He came, He said, "Moses, because of the hardness of your heart, suffered you a divorce from your wife. But it wasn't so from the beginning." Now, we find out they took the commandments of God and made them of non effect.
When Jesus came, He found people looking to the church for salvation. What did they get? Creeds. Each denomination makes up its own creed. And then that's what He found the people depending on the church for salvation; and they found man-made creeds.
And if He come today in Person and talked to us, He'd find the same thing: man making the Word of God fit their denomination, giving them creeds. And there's no salvation in a creed, if it's not the Bible. It's got to be Bible, because His Word is... All we have need of is His Word. And His Word, when He is the Word... The Word of God is God. That's all. It's His Word, Hisself. He's... "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God... and the Word was God." And the Word's still God. It is still God.

L-7 Now, we find out that when He come, He found the man then taking the commandments of God, and making them of non effect--by taking the commandments of God, and suiting it around to meet their creed, so it was of non effect. And the church looked... The people looked to the church instead of looking to God's Word. So therefore, He said, "It wasn't so from the beginning."
We find it's the same today, as I've quoted two or three times already this morning, and (watching that clock, it makes me nervous)... So I--I want to say this on, that, "This is true." Then in that day as it is now, and now as it was then, they holler out, "Where is God?"
Why, the very thing that... They've left God when they left His Word. That's the reason we have things the way we do today, is because people left the Word of God.

L-8 If a doctor wrote a formula, prescription, and you added something to it, or taken some away from it, you'd kill your patient. That's right. You've got to keep it just the way it's wrote. There's enough antidote there to upset the poison, enough poison to kill the germs. And too much poison in it without the antidote would kill the patient and--and too much antidote without the poison... What would it do? It wouldn't help your patient. So you've got to keep it right.
And that's the way God's Word is. It's God's prescription. Yes, brother. It's God's prescription to His people to cure every sickness, every disease. Sin and physical, whatever it may be, it's all met in God's Word. Amen. It's God's Word. It was so at the beginning; it was so in the middle age; it's so in every age, and It's so this morning; just the same as It was when He spoke It, 'cause It cannot deviate one speck because It's God's Word.


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