<TITLE>09. Par 34-36</TITLE>L-34 Now, we find out that he always tries to outsmart, do something better. And it's true, he makes a prettier specie. But that doesn't make it any better. And he's figured on now till he's even got a hybrid religion. So I just wonder what he's going to do with that, where he's come to with that place. But he always tries to outsmart his Maker. He thinks that he knows better, and--and he's...
And God never does destroy anything. Man destroys himself by his knowledge. God doesn't destroy anything. It's man, by his knowledge, destroys himself. So therefore, if you would take time, go back in the Scriptures and chase the lineage of Cain and then the lineage of Seth; you will find out that the--the lineage of Cain were the smart men, the scientists, the workers of wood, the workers of metal, scientists. And they all perished in the antediluvian destruction. But the lineage of--of Seth were humble: farmers, sheep raisers.

L-35 So you see, it's always these people where today we put so much emphasis on the smart and the intelligent. Many of us people electing our--our pastor for our church, we want somebody that's really brilliant, smart, got Ph.D., double L.D., Q.S.T., all kinds of things behind their name. And maybe he knows no more about God than Hottentot knows about an Egyptian knight. Now, that's true. Now, that is a rude remark. Forgive the rude expression, but that's true. He might know all kinds of Bible theology and creeds but knows nothing about God.
I'd would rather have a man with my child, leading him to God that didn't know the difference between split beans and coffee, and--and knowed God in the power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, than have all the theology that you could talk about. And taking him some big plush seat somewhere and kneel him down, and say a few things; I'd rather have him out there in a corn field or in the broom sedge batch by a stump somewhere praying him through to God. That's right. Go back to the original. We never know God...
A few years ago, they thought they could educate people. And what have we got now? A bunch of educated heathens. It's exact. And they're far harder to deal with than the uneducated heathens.

L-36 Now, I've been in Africa and I've missionaried in Thailand, and all around the world, practically every nation under the heavens. And I have never in my life seen people harder to deal with than the USA. If there is anywhere they really need a missionary it's in the United States of America, 'cause a heathen's an unbeliever. And a educated unbeliever is far harder to deal with than one that's uneducated. Now, that... I don't say that to be rude, but that's the truth. And I'm responsible and will have to answer at the day of the judgment for my words. That's true; the unbelieving, smart man, shrewd scientist, yet religious to the core... And so was Cain.
If God only requires a man to go to church, build an altar and worship, Cain was just as justified as Abel was. Both boys built an altar; both boys worshipped; both made sacrifices; both believed in God. But what happened? Cain's was refused because he did not come God's provided way. "And there is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is the ways of death."
No matter how much you try to go to church, how many churches you belong to, that doesn't have one thing to do with it, doesn't mean one thing to God, doesn't even mean you have even started on the first base of salvation. Salvation does not come by denomination or by education. It's comes by an experience of being borned again of the Spirit of God with the Spirit of Christ living in your body. Now, that is true.


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