<TITLE>04. Par -</TITLE>L-5-3 When I seen what those men and women went through with back there and see--to maintain this same Gospel, and when they preached this same Gospel, the same thing that happened in the Old Testament, New Testament, and then, just exactly the same, so that gives it one, two, three witnesses; every word is established. The same God that dealt with the old prophets, dealt with the apostles, and dealt with the Pre-Nicene brethren; and here He is today, dealing the same way with His people, with the same signs, same wonders, same Gospel, same power, same God, everything, with three as a witness to us that this is the Truth. This is Truth, God giving it in three testaments (See?), that history is...

L-5-4 The Bible is a history of what God was. So the history of the Old Testament... The New Testament is a history of the--of the New Testament, and the Nicene Council and Fathers, and Post-Nicene Council is the history of the church then. And now, history is making on just as it was, which this history will never be written. No. It's too close to the coming now.
And God help a man in these days... People who try to seek human honor, men who try to--to make themselves popular or--among human beings, don't you know that human being, when it perishes, all that perishes with it? But seek to gain the heavenly treasures; they shall never pass away.
God's richest blessings rest upon all you. I told them tonight; usually it's my custom to go to church somewhere on Sunday, if I possibly can. I...

L-6-3 Today, this morning I wanted to come down real bad and hear Brother Neville's message. But after making that promise, then I didn't want to break it. So then, I tried to listen to radios and--and so forth. And all I could hear was, "Immediately after this service, we'll all meet out in the lunchroom and have coffee together, and we'll..." What has the church come to? It's a lodge. Why don't you just say "lodge" instead of "church"? Church, you're not supposed to do that. Church is a--not a meeting of coffee, or dinners, or suppers, and things like that. We have communion with the Lord. A church, that's where we commune with Him.

L-6-4 I said to the wife, "Honey, I--I am getting so critical; I hate to go down to the Tabernacle or either enter the pulpit." Oh, the older I get, look like, worse I get. And I--I--I don't--I don't want to be that--like that. But there's something inside me drives me to be like that. And then I said, "Am I losing my mind? Why can't I go with the rest of the crowd? Why can't I go like the other brethren? Why can't I get me an organization and build around it like they do? Or, why can't I go out and quit hammering at people and things like that? Why can't I do it?" And I said then, "I think, 'Have I lost my mind?'" Then I come back to the Word, and there it is. I must stay with that Word.

L-6-5 I said, "I... If it wasn't for the Word of God and I knowed there was a God, I'd build me a little cabin somewhere so far back in British Columbia, way back up in Canada in the mountains, where I wouldn't see a human being once a year; and there I'd hear the voice of God in the rippling streams and hear Him when He screamed out in the wolf on top of the mountain. I'd hear Him as He whispered through the great big pine trees, and look at His lovely face in the mirror of the lake when it reflected the big snowcapped mountains. Why, I'd worship God every day of my life back in there. I know I'd get more real about God back there than I can listening to coffee suppers, and tea parties, and all this kind of stuff that we have today, so-called church: creeds, and fictions, and fables, and everything else to take the place of the Gospel."


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