<TITLE>02. Par 4-6</TITLE>L-4 The Gospel, and yet in it's simplicity is the greatest drawing card the world has ever knowed. Jesus said when He was here on earth, "If I be lifted up, I'll draw all men unto Me." Black, white, yellow, brown, whatever their color or race is, the Gospel still holds the center of attraction to every man and every woman.
And I do believe that our churches should be just a little farther advanced in the Gospel than what we are. I think that we contribute that, I do, and if I'm wrong I pray the Lord forgive me. I think we try to look back too much to see what somebody else has done, or said, instead of looking forward to Christ. He's our Leader.
A few hundred years ago, I may be mistaken in this quotation, but I'd say three hundred years ago, I believe it was a scientist in France that tried to take a ball and whirl it around the earth, or something or another... Might've been a hundred and fifty years ago... He whirled it around the earth and--with the speed, and he claims if any vehicle on earth would ever move the terrific speed of thirty miles an hour the grav--the gravitation would lose its hold, it'd go right off the earth. Now, that was scientifically proven in that day. You think any science would look back and say... to that? Certainly not. I see where they got a plane now, I forget, around five thousand miles an hour sometimes. And they don't stop even at that, they keep going on, on.
But we Christians, and we clergymen and ministers, we try to look back in our school and see what Mr. Moody said about it, what Mr. Sankey said, or--or Finney, or Knox, or Calvin, or any of those. Now, they were great men in their day. But, see, we're always looking back; let's look forward. See? We got untapped resources.

L-5 And now, science can only climb so high, then they have to leave, go back. The tree of knowledge only produces so much. And that was set before us in the garden of Eden. And a human being is prone to live from that tree of knowledge. But it never was God's plan for us to live by that tree of knowledge. The first time man took a bite from the tree of knowledge, he separated his fellowship from God. Every time he takes a bite off that tree he destroys himself, continually. He bit off gunpowder; look what that done: killed his comrade. Bit off automobiles, that kills more than the gunpowder. Now, he's got an atomic and hydrogen bomb. Still eating from that tree of knowledge which finally will send him back to his destination.

L-6 But the Tree of Life that he left willfully to eat from the tree of knowledge, then there's where he leaves alone. I believe that science now... I was tested by one of those meter tests on your arms about this Light, Angel of the Lord. And the scientific picture was taken of It; you have it right here now (Been taken over the world at different places.) a picture of the same Pillar of Fire that followed the children of Israel, scientifically proven. George J. Lacy, the head of the FBI, for fingerprint and document (See?), examined it to see if it was right. He said, "It's not psychology," he said, "the mechanical eye of the camera won't take psychology."


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