<TITLE>12. Par 38-40</TITLE>L-38 Now, I want you to really just take off the--the rain coat from around your heart. Take down the umbrella. Just set your Methodist umbrella over in the corner, your Baptist over in the corner, and your Pentecostal over in the corner, and let's look at God's Word. See? Just set them all over there now and let's look at it. See? The Bible predicted by Ezekiel the prophet, and the Holy Spirit come and done just exactly like It said and even little babies... The Bible--the historians said... Now, remember, the Bible said, "Don't spare nothing." Little or young or old or all. All that hasn't got this seal of God would be marked otherwise.
And look who was marked out of it? Lifelong men who gave their lives for the clergy, priests and renowned men, great priests and scholars. Now, how many knows that's true? Why, sure it is. Sure it's true. Just as scholar... Just as holy, just as sweet, perhaps fine people, citizens of--of the country... But that's no excuse. When God sends something and you fail to walk in it, then you're out; that's all. You either do or you don't. That's the way it was. All that didn't get in the ark, drowned, and that was all there was to it, no matter who they was. That's the same thing, all that's not in Christ today will perish without Christ. It's true. So you can't say, "I'm a Methodist, or Baptist, or Pentecostal, or anything else; you've got to be of Christ. And if you're of Christ, you do the works of Christ. That bears record and proves that it is. I... It's just as clear as the Scripture, I know how to say it. That's just as plain as the nose on this big face, or big nose on this face of mine, rather. That's right.

L-39 Now, notice, how He did it. Now, they was... The--the ones that was warned, got away. And all the rest of them went in the city, and the historian says, that they eat all the grass off the tree. Titus surrounded it, the city. City of Jerusalem, it was designated. Now, our time is designated all the world. But this was to the city of Jerusalem to the Jews only. And Titus, when he came in, he--he surrounded the city, kept them in there two or three years. And when he did, they eat the grass off the trees, the bark off of the trees, the grass off the ground, and even boiled one another's children and eat it. Mother's boiled their babies and eat it: wild, mad. Then finally, when he broke in, he slaughtered and killed until the blood run out the gates of the city.

L-40 A great God Who's full of love, He is full of love. In order to be love He has to have judgment to be just. So He is a merciful God tonight. But, my friend, when you stand before Him at judgment on that dark cloudy day, He will be a God full of anger. The Bible said so: in His wrath. I was down on the front and I was cutting from my--had a cutter down there of stone from Colorado. He had some stone. And he was cutting the--a little stone I wanted to take to my little girl for a little thing to go on her neck, a little cross. And so he said, "You cut the... Show me where to cut it." And it was all clear and then it looked like kinda ragged, like clouds hanging down. And I put that at the top of the cross. And the lady said, "Why would you do that? Why don't you cut the pretty clear part out here?"
I said, "The cross is not pretty. It's an emblem of suffering and shame."
She said, "Well, why that?"
I said, "That's the clouds of God's wrath. God poured His wrath out upon Christ Who took my place at Calvary. He died under the judgments and wrath of God. God poured out His fierce judgment upon Him and He took my place." I said, "I was a sinner, and He took my place." And I noticed tears coming up in the woman's eyes. I said, "We're sinful, and we have no hope. But God knowed that we had to stand these judgments, and Jesus took them for us. And them clouds hanging over the cross was God's wrath pouring out upon Him. And He bore the wrath of God in His own body that we might be free." Oh, what a story, what a truth. The... God's wrath...


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