<TITLE>06. Par 20-23</TITLE>L-20 Then after that come a man by the name of Nebuchadnezzar, who thought he could build a super city, something to achieve himself. One day he walked out and he said, "You see what I have done." And God changed his heart to a heart of a beast. He got the best scientists that the world had, like Nimrod did to build the tower. And Nebuchadnezzar got the best scientists, the best army, the best mechanism that was to be gotten. He put it all on the inside of a great super wall, that even they say they could run chariot races across that wall.
And he got everything in there; what did they do as soon as they got in there? Live any way you want to. No other nation can bother us. Nobody on the outside can get in. We got the world conquered. What happened one night? Remember God can see from above.

L-21 And when they were having a television show, they wanted to crack some jokes about religion, and they went and got the holy vessels of God, and begin to make fun of them, by drinking wine out of them. And there come an unknown tongues writing on the wall. And all of their super race didn't know what it meant. But they had one man among them who could interpret unknown tongues: Daniel.
And remember, that's the way the--the Gentile church came in. And that's the same way it goes out. And in this great feast of Belteshazzar, God came down and had the Chaldeans and the--to dig around the place and drain out the water and come under the gate. The super city amounted to nothing. So it lays in ruins today.
Our own beloved country here, as we came from England, which was called the queen of the sea in the day. And she's still calls herself queen of the sea. We wanted to beat them so we built us a super ship. We achieved something to build a great ship that our scientists, and our great intelligence said, "It could not sink." God with His mighty hand showed that no matter what man can achieve it's gone on to the dust. The Titanic sunk like all other man achievements.
Our super ship didn't do one bit of good. Made a voyage or so and then she struck an iceberg and went to the bottom of the sea.

L-22 France tried to build the Siegfried line, Germany, the Maginot line. And after the first World War, then France still wanted their women, wine, and big times. And they built the line, and faced all their guns towards Germany. "Come on now. Let's eat drink and be merry. Everything's just fine."
What happened? Germany marched right around behind it. They forgot how to... left a place to turn their guns, and Germany crashed it down. Germany later built the Maginot line. The American blockbuster tore it to pieces.
So you see, everything that man tries to hide hisself behind with his own achievement, he--he's bound to lose. I wished I had enough education to place this the way that I--I--I know it is. And I hope what I lack in education, the Holy Spirit will reveal by His Being.

L-23 That you can see any man-made thing has to crumble. And man is constantly, by his nature, trying to achieve something he can leave for a memorial of something he did.
The church has tried to achieve something. They've tried to achieve an organization by man-made theories, by education, by man-made theology. Achieve... Every person working for their organization. What has happened to it? In the whole thing, where is God? Every church, and every church wants their pastor to be a Ph.D., L.L.D. Which is all right, as long as you've got that plus God. But when you go off on these tantrums to try to build something yourself, to show that your organization is smarter, or a better dressed crowd, higher ethics, the mayor of the city comes to your church, you're on sinking sand.
Don't you forget that, Chicago. If I never speak again to you, you remember that. Those things has to sink and give a way.


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