<TITLE>09. Par 26-29</TITLE>L-26 Now, as soon as man found out that he was a sinner, he's always tried to make his own way back. He's tried to find his own way back. And he's totally lost. Now, that's the reason I think that Christ referred to us as sheep, sheep of His pasture. If anybody ever herded sheep, when a sheep is lost he's totally lost. I've herded them a many time, and I've found them sheep standing out there when he's lost from the rest of them, he will just stand and bleat till the wolf gets him, or something happens. He cannot find his way back. He's totally lost; he's got to have a shepherd. And that's the way the human race is. We can no more save ourselves than the leopard could lick his spots off of him; he just brightens it up as he licks. So but it shows his strain. He tried to find his way back. He's still taken that same attitude of trying to find his way back.

L-27 We find the first thing he tried to do, was to try to cover hisself up with fig leaves to make hisself... Now, religion is a covering; we know that's what it is, is a covering. The first thing he tried to do was cover hisself: make hisself some aprons out of fig leaves. He found out that they wouldn't work. In the Presence of God, God condemned the works of his hands. He just wouldn't work.
He tried to build a tower, so he could get out of the way of all the floods and destructions, and find his way back on this tower, in Babel, back to God. God condemned it, and confused their language, and the tower dropped. And every time that man tries to make his own way, he--he fails.

L-28 After he lost his fellowship with God he become a wanderer, had to shift for himself. God taken care of him before then. But now he finds he has to shift for himself, and it's a pretty hard thing. So he doesn't have a loving Father to watch over him, and protect him, and guide him, and direct him, and feed him, and clothe him, and care for him like he did. So instead of coming back, he tries to find his own way. He wants to make his own way back. Man wants to make his own way; he's always had. Always will, I suppose, try to find his own way... And every time he make his own way, he's always gets wrong.

L-29 Now, we find out in these--this age, let's take some of the ways he tries to get back yet. He tries in this age to bring himself back through his intellectuals. He tries to educate himself back. We had a program here not long ago, "If We Could Educate the World..." Here about seventy-five years ago the world taken upon itself to educate itself back into fellowship, make all nations, when we civilize the world, brought the Liberty Monarchs, and brought the heathen and everything. And we started out in our churches making programs to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic. What did we do? Made him a two child more fold of hell then he ever was to begin with.
I just come from Africa, recently. And in Africa the worse thing they ever did was educate the heathen. The hardest heathen there is to deal with is the educated heathen. Now, a heathen is an unbeliever. And you get a--an uneducated heathen, sometimes you can talk to him. But you educate him, he knows more about it than you do, or God does, or anybody else. So... And what do we do? Now, to--so that my colored friends here will understand.
When you take the African Negro, when he's out in his little hut out there, he's all right. There's only one thing he wa--needs is Christ. You bring him into the city, and when...


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