<TITLE>08. Par 71-78</TITLE>L-71 Down through the Old Testament, God, in the days of the prophets, back... I got several of them written down here, that I will not have time to get to. But God in the days of the old prophets, in the midst of everything, like He did in the garden of Eden, when the true Voice of God and the true worship of God was condemned, and sent out and killed, in the garden of Eden, and the Voice of God hushed by the greed and jealousy, it's been that way in the church ever since, trying to hush the true Voice of God.

L-72 But if you notice, as soon as the voice of Abel was silent in death, God raised up Seth to take his place. Which was nothing but a pre-Easter, a pre-resurrection, or a replacement until resurrection came. That went for a while; down through the Old Testament we find it going. The prophets, God kept His Voice alive with the prophets. They spoke the Word of God, and they stoned them. And as soon as they would stone one and put him away, God would raise up another one. And they'd stone that one and put away, God would raise up another one. He's always kept His witness alive. Down through the ages He's kept His Voice alive before the people, all the way from Eden.

L-73 And now, we find out, as soon as Cain realized that he had did what he did, well, he went out from the Presence of God, and was sealed away from God by a mark was placed upon him. He went out, the Bible said, from the garden of Eden, from the gates of the garden, east of Eden. He went out sealed, marked, went out from the Presence of God.
What a thing, what a tremendous thing, that Cain, because of jealousy, and because of not willing to be reconciled to God by the same appropriated way that his brother came... God said to Cain, "If you'll worship like Abel, you'll do well."
But Cain as much as said, "Here's what I've put together. This is what I've got; here's what I give. You take this or leave it, either one You want to do; just suit Yourself."
Now, that's kind of the attitude of people all the time in church life, in other life. It--they say, "I go to church. I--I--I help the church; I--I do this. If God can't accept that, that's the best I can do." See? But still it isn't that that God requires. God doesn't require that.

L-77 God requires a--a provided way. He has provided a way, and He requires you to accept what He has provided. See? He doesn't need our assistance in telling Him what to do and how to do it. He has made the way for us to do, and the things that we should do, and how we should do them, and He doesn't need our ideas in it at all. We are not to come that way. But we find that men are prone to do that, all down through the age.
But God kept His Voice alive with His prophets, and so forth, down through the age as He's come.

L-78 And we find it today... And we find it in politics. I've got some things set down here about politics, that how that we would find even in this day that where we are, that people has sold their birthrights for politics. And if none of you has ever got the tape that I spoke on in up at Middletown, Ohio, Sunday, a week ago, on Jezebel and Ahab, I wish you would listen to it sometime. And how that the nation, because of greed, and a few extra dollars, and a--a more popular idea amongst the people, they have absolutely sold out Christ just as much as Judas did two thousand years ago for thirty pieces of silver. Oh, it's a tremendous thing to think that the condition that exists amongst this nation and these peoples today... To think that many years ago, they would have never done a thing like that. But today they're so greedy, trying to get more money, trying to get easier times. Now, that is, 'course the unchristian.


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