<TITLE>05. Par 35-38</TITLE>L-35 Now, I'm going to read two or three places in the Scripture, and, as I announced last Sunday that today I was going to try to speak on "Christianity Versus Idolatry." And that is our subject for this morning. And now, I'm not no theologian, not a Bible student by no means, just an illiterate person that loves the Lord Jesus with all my heart. I do not claim to be a theologian, or try to take one's place, but just try in the humbleness of my heart to explain those things that I feel that the Holy Spirit has revealed to me, and I must give to my church. For it's to my interest that this church grows, that this church is spiritually right. It's to my interest, because this church is God's interest, and His interest is my interest. So I must see to this.

L-36 Reading in the early historians of Irenaeus and them, how they kept their church undefiled from the things of the world, how those old teachers got up there and really stayed with that Gospel. The Bible wasn't written then in the form as we have It now, not until the Reformation, and Luther put it in print. But they--they had what they called The Gospel and Apostle: Gospel and Apostle, and they stayed with that.

L-37 Now, for our--two places we aim to read this morning, one of them is found in the Book of Jeremiah the 7th chapter and beginning with 10th to the 18th verse. The other place is found in Acts 7:49. And if you want to mark the text for this, or the text out of this, Jeremiah 7, it'd be the 18th verse. I want to begin reading from the 10th verse:
And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all of these abominations?
Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.
But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did for it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, that I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not... I called you, but ye answered not;
Therefore will I do this unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I give unto you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
I will cast you out of my sight, I will have cast out all your brethren... I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
Therefore pay not thou for this people... pray not... for this people, neither lift up and cry nor prayers for them, neither make intercession unto me: for I will not hear thee.
See thou not what they do in the city of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

L-38 Now, I want to stop before I read the final verse of this. Let me begin again. Now, God rebuking this people, and saying don't even pray for them... Let me begin with the 16th verse and read through the 18th. Now, listen close:
Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayers for them, neither make intercessions to me: for I will not hear thee.
See thou not... Seest thou not what they do in the city of Judaea and in the streets of Jerusalem?
The children gather wood... the fathers kindle fires, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto other gods, that ye may provoke me to anger.


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