<TITLE>08. Par 29-33</TITLE>L-29 You know, I heard... Someone was in that meeting here some time ago. Someone said, "Just let your mind go blank now. Just look right straight up towards the skies. Let your mind go blank; you'll get an experience." And no doubt but what you do. That's right.
But you get an experience, but what an experience. You see, when you do that, you just open your soul to Satan. He'll give you something; that's true. But I think a person coming to Christ should come with all the intelligence they've got, and quoting in their mind when they come to Him every promise in the Scripture. Keep your mind alert, when you come to Christ. Don't let it go blank. The devil will make you do anything. See? They'll give you a sensation. He can do that too. But you want an experience, something that the Bible teaches, something that's real.

L-30 Then they go away presuming, "Well, a little nerve shook. I saw a light before me," or--or something like that. "I got it." And they never live any different. They go right on out.
Many of them come up and say, "Yes, I recite this creed. I believe that I'm all right now." Now, you presume you're all right. You just think you are.
Now, when they do this, then people come and join this church, presuming that they're doing what's right. And many of them is only asked to take a creed to live by it, sprinkle a little water on them, and make them church members, and they're all right then. Them people go out (honest, good people) presuming that they're on the road to heaven.

L-31 Now that's where the trouble comes. Honest-thinking people believe that if they are brought into a certain condition, or a certain place, or to make a certain pledge, or something like that, that that's all God requires--keep a commandment, or live by the ten commandments, or something like that, do some good deed, social turn, give the neighbors something. They presume that that's religion, and that's all they have to have. But how wrong that is.

L-32 Now we're living later than we think. Year by year, coming to Phoenix and other places, I wonder if we'll be here for the next year. I wonder then, when I leave, did I--was I honest? Did I lay everything out just as clear as I knowed how to lay it? Lord, did I follow Your instructions? Did I say one thing contrary to Your Word, or did I keep every word right on Your Word? Because these same people will stand with me in the judgment, and I'll have to give an account for what I've said while I was at this certain place, where it is.
But the people... After these ministers, I believe, presuming after so many education and get a degree of so forth, and learn a creed of a church, and go back out and take a pastoral job, and, I believe, with honesty and sincerity, just as sincere as anybody could be... But sincerity isn't what makes it true. That--that isn't altogether truth.

L-33 I've stood when I... And here not long ago in India, and seen them with an idol with rubies in the ears, that was worth thousands of dollars, and a hideous looking face in it with great eyes, and seen the priests pour holy water over a man with his body all full of fishhooks with little water balls hanging down from him. And--and seen them take a--a ditch of fire about thirty yards long, maybe ten foot wide, and several feet deep, just white embers of fire, and see the men with all this torture... It may be with his lips, if he'd lied or done some lies, doing penance, stick his tongue out and sew it to his nose, and run lances through his upper lip, bring it out up through his forehead here, and stick it out like that--all kinds of hideous things. And the priests pour holy water on him to... And they kill a goat then to make a blood sacrifice, to walk through that fire, presuming that they are doing the will of God. And they're sincere. They are sincere.


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