<TITLE>07. Par 24-27</TITLE>L-24 The Baptists thinks they'll build them an organization, the Methodists the same way, Catholic the same way, Presbyterians the same way, Nazarenes, Pentecostal, Pilgrim Holiness, all of it: some man-made achievement. But it's just as sure to sink as Nimrod's tower did, and Nebuchadnezzar's city did. Like America's Titanic went down, so will they go down: have to, every man-made achievement.
Where is the Titanic today? In the bottom of the sea. Where is Nimrod's tower? She's fallen to the earth. Where is Nebuchadnezzar's immortal city? It sunk. Where is France's Siegfried line? She's blowed to pieces. Where is Germany's Maginot line? She's bursted to pieces. Where is the denominational church? Dead. What is it? All of it is a historical memory. All that's left of the Siegfried line is a history. All that's left of the Maginot line is the history. All that's left of the towers is history.

L-25 And all the church has got today is a history: what Moody said, what Sankey said, what Finney said, what Smith said, what so-and-so said; it's a history. But God still lives just the same and He always will live.
It's a history. We begin in 1909. We begin in--way back in Luther's time. We begin at... Oh, my. God never did begin, and He never will end. Everything that has a beginning, has an end. But it's those things that never did begin, that don't end.
That's the reason no matter how much achievement we make in this world towards building our crops, our denominations, our buildings, our structures; they all begin and they all end. And we had a beginning and an end. But when we receive Christ, we receive God. God is eternal, and we become eternal with God through Eternal Life, which never did begin or never will end.

L-26 Don't you let that depart from you. Keep it in your minds and hearts fresh, as long as you live. Every man-made achievement must fall. But it's in him to do that, to do so. Adam, his father, proved it.
He just wouldn't just go ahead and do God's will, do what God said. And when he found out he was wrong, then he tried to make his own way. He tried to leave a memorial. "I was the one who started the Adam religion." Oh, it's still here. Certainly it is. It's still here; we still got it: man-made theories without an atonement.
Oh, they claim the atonement. But the atonement cleanses from sin. And sin is unbelief. And when a man is a unbeliever in the Word of God, saying that Jesus Christ is not the same, in the same power, he is a unbeliever. He might belong to the greatest denomination and have a Ph.L.L.D. He might be a professor, bishop, or whatever he might be. He's still a unbelieving sinner.

L-27 Jesus said to that man-made system in His days... They was holy. You couldn't touch them, reverent men, holy and without blame. He said, "You are of your father, the devil." Because they did not believe Him. He was the Word of God made flesh, living here on earth, among us: God's Word.
Oh, it's all become history now. God remains. But in all of it, as the forked lightning in a stormy night flashes forth, it shows there can be light in the darkness. It proves that no matter how dark it gets, there still can be light.
So man wanting to make signs and to have signs, God said, one day, "I'm going to give them an eternal super Sign. I'm going to give them a sign. And it'll be a super Sign, a everlasting Sign. It'll never change. It'll remain the same yesterday, today, and forever. I'll give them a sign." They won't receive It, but yet God gives it.


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