<TITLE>09. Par 66-73</TITLE>L-66 Now, these idolaters... (And you got your Scriptures ready or the places for your Scriptures. I--I might refer to some of them in a few moments, of the Scriptures. We might read some.) Now, these idolaters, prostrating themself before the idol, believe that the god that they are worshipping is represented in this idol. Now, have you got that, that the worshipper is not a hypocrite? He actually is getting ahold of something that's in that idol, because it comes back on him. He does something; gets it from that idol, which is a myth god, not a real One.
And many times, the devil gets into those things. And the devil gets into meetings sometime, and impersonates himself as God. I have seen this in my ministry.

L-68 Now, remember, this is just--we're just teaching this morning. And I want this church, when I leave into the ministry here to go out in the fields, I want you to stay with your pastor, and stay with the teaching that's been taught here. Stay with this Word; don't you leave It. You stay right with the Word; no matter what comes or goes stay with that Word. See? Now, and just because that I go away... I'm just one of the pastors here. Brother Neville teaches the same thing I do, so just come right on to church and listen to the Word.
I don't know where He's going to lead me. I told my wife this morning at the table, "There's been something in me that's cried out all these years. I'm going to find out what it is." Now, I don't know which way It'll lead, where It'll go. But where He leads me, I'll follow.

L-70 Now, idolatry, it's still today. We find... I find people coming to the altar, and with blind sayings of blind teachers, that'll say, "Just open up; forget everything; make your mind a blank. You'll become an--an Elijah. You'll become this, that, or the other." What a lie. You don't come to God... That's to open up your soul to all kinds of devil spirits get in. Don't you do that. You must remember: there is a devil, and he impersonates Christ to the letter almost.

L-71 I was reading in the Life of Saint Martin sometime ago, that where a boy... He was actually a monk, and he said that God had called him to be one of the old prophets, "You listen to me, I am one of the old prophets." And the school of Martin, of course, wouldn't listen to such a thing as that. So they didn't believe it because the boy's life didn't pattern up to it. Finally, he said, "I'm going to prove to you that I'm called to be an old prophet. Just a young fellow," said, "but I'm called."
See, "Gifts and callings are without repentance." See, they get off the Word. And when you get off the Word you get into anything.

L-73 And this boy said, "Tonight, around midnight, God is going to give me a white robe to set among you all with, to show that I'm an old prophet." So they... That night, they all listened, and whispering, "come in," and people traveling. And the boy received a white robe. When the visitor left, they went and looked at the robe; it was genuine, a real, white robe, looked very good.
But the old bishop, he just couldn't get that. It didn't seem right, because it just wasn't Scriptural--a white robe. And when he did, they said, "Take this robe and go stand before Saint Martin, that man of God." And he wouldn't do it. He wouldn't stand before that genuine prophet. He wouldn't stand; and they forced him to do it. And when they started to take him, the robe vanished and went somewhere; they didn't know where it went. See, when it's brought to a showdown...


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