<TITLE>26. Par 112-117</TITLE>L-112 There you are. There you are. See? He that's got good gold don't have to fear taking it to the testing machine. He that lives the life above reproach don't care what the world calls him holy-roller. That's right.
When a man lives a life above reproach, when the woman lives a life above reproach, she can hear any kind of a word preached out of the Word of God, or he either one. Doesn't bother them. Certainly not. You don't have to go, or fear the touching stone, if you got real gold. Don't have to worry about it. It'll stand the test.

L-113 And so they said, "You're going anyhow," because they knowed that Martin was a vindicated prophet of the Lord. So if God had been with him in the things that he'd done, and proved that it was... So they started to pick him up to take him anyhow, and the robe vanished. See how easy? Presuming. That honest boy presuming he'd heard a voice, how easy it would've been for that bishop, and any of them to have fell for that. But them brethren stayed with the Word.

L-114 When that Nicaea council come up there, they started the argument. Many of you ministers know what I'm talking about. The ones that was real schools, like St. Patrick, and them that went over and the different ones that--and Irenaeus and the different ones that--they stayed with the Word. The rest of them took dogmas and went off. And there it is yet today. But the real believer stayed with the Word. Bless God. I know... Let's presume nothing. Stay with that Word, and God's obligated to make...
That Word is a Seed, and that Word will bring forth everything it promised to bring forth. It'll do it. It'll take the world out of you; it'll sanctify you; it'll make you live a different life; it'll make you do things that you thought you couldn't do; 'cause it's the Word in you.

L-115 Don't presume you have it. Watch your life, and measure up and see what your life is, see the way you're living. See if you're in the faith. Search out, and see if everything's going just right. See if the world's still got a love so much it'll call you away from the things that's really of God to love the world. If it is, brother, check up right here.
Stop right here, say, "Satan, you take that dirty thing back. I'll not receive it."
"Well, over at So-and-so's church they do that. Brother So-and-so lets his people..."
I don't care what Brother So-and-so does. The Word says not to do it. That settles it. That's right.
"Well, they--they're the greatest organization in the country. They all do it. They say it's all right."
Yes, yeah, might say it's all right. But when God says... See. God's Word said...
Satan said, "It is written."
And Jesus said, "It's also written." See? There it is. See? It's written.

L-116 We must keep the Word of God. Don't presume nothing. Just don't take it for granted. Don't venture out when you haven't got authority to. The thing to do is stay there, and wait, if it's ten days, twenty days, ten years, or whatever it is, until you are dead positive, and the Word witnesses by itself that it's so. Then you're right. That life will straighten up, and come right to tall, come right to its place. It sure will. And the church...

L-117 I've often wondered... I'd like to walk into a church. I hope I get to see it before I die (in closing), walk into a church sometime, and walk through there, and just see, oh, how sin couldn't even set in that church. Any member would have to confess it before they even got there. The Holy Spirit would call it right out on the spot, like that (See?), just like, see the women setting there look like ladies, see men like men, really men of integrity, Holy Ghost-filled men, Spirit-filled. Let just one sin be in the church anywhere, the Holy Spirit call it right out. Like Ananias, Sapphira, have it right there before you. See? Oh, that's a church I'd like to see. I wished I could see it.


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