<TITLE>08. Par 26-28</TITLE>L-26 I guess Jehoshaphat might've said, "You still believe in Jehovah?"
"Oh, why, certainly, we believe in Jehovah, certainly, certainly."
"All right," he said, "now..."
When you see the world inviting you somewhere, remember, they got a axe to grind. See? And young lady, you here coming out of a Christian home, that's never smoked or drank, and that girl tries to give you a cigarette, she's got a axe to grind. That young man wants to take you out to dance, there's a axe to grind. See? Just watch. Keep out of that company. Keep away from it. No matter how good they seem to be, shun the very appearance of evil, the Bible said.
Stay away from it. Don't see how--how close you can get to it without sinning; see how far you can stay away from it. That's the thing to do. Don't never see how close you can go to sin; see how far you can stay away.

L-27 Like Scotchman was that was going to go over the mountain. They had three drivers there. One of them said; he said, "Well, that great cliff," he said, "is that the road up there?"
He said, "That's the road."
Said, "Well, how wide is that road?"
He said, "That road is just ten inches wider that the wheels of the carriage in places."
Said, "You better choose a good driver."
He said, "I must ascend the mountain, go over it."
One man said, "I can drive my horses at a gallop, and with a--take my whip and drive my horses at a gallop, and stay within two inches of that rim all the way around without falling."
The other driver walked up and said, "I can stay within three inches of that rim and go around it at a full gallop."
The other fellow was just standing there, picking on his thumbs. Said, "What about you, sir?"
Said, "Sir, I might be able to do that, but I don't want to take that kind of chance. I stay just as far against the side as you want to."
He said, "I'm your passenger." That's right. And that's the way it is. Don't see what you can do to get by with it before God; see how far you can stay away from sin, and all shapes, and orders, and unbelief. And abstain from everything that's ungodly. Get away from it. Stay away from it.
And I think if a man's ever been over in Canaan's land and tasted the good things of God, you don't have to worry much about he or she about it. They'll stay away from it, as long as they've ever tasted them good grapes of Canaan.

L-28 Now, Jehoshaphat come down and Ahab showed him all the glitter of the kingdom. And now, he had a axe to grind, and he said, "Do you know that Ramoth-gilead belongs to us, up there. When Joshua divided the land... You're a witness of it. Yes, sir, that you're a witness that that was allotted to us. And the king of Syria has it, and it belongs to us." Said "Now, isn't that the truth?"
He said, "That's true, sure, that we're all Israelites."
He said, "Now, will you join your army with my army? And both of us together, we'll go up there and run him out of there, 'cause that's ours."
And, see, they can show, the world can... The devil can show you some mighty good shining reasons, and even bring it down into the Scripture. They'll say, "Well now, we're all just... We're all children of God. All men are sons of God." Oh, no, no, no, no. "We all believe the same things." Oh, we don't either. No, sir. We certainly don't.
And so, they... You know, Jude was told, said, commanded to earnestly contend for the faith, not a faith, the faith that was once delivered unto the saints. That's right. Not contend for a faith, the faith that was once delivered. And when you've got that faith, Jesus said these signs shall follow them that has that faith. So that--then you know where you're standing (See?), and then you know what kind of life you would live.


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