<TITLE>09. Par 37-40</TITLE>L-37 We could call many other great things that taken place. Just recently, France, after the first World War they wanted to build the Siegfried line up there. And they turned all their guns towards Germany and said, "Now, if the Germans ever would try to come this way again, why, we'll be able to hold them off, because we've got a line here that we can hold them off with it."
Just to show that man-made schemes cannot stand, the Germans outsmarted them. They got behind this Siegfried line and said, "We can eat, drink, live in adultery, dance, live in sin, do anything we want to, because we are protected. We have done something that will protect us."
The Germans marched right around behind it and took them. See, went right around behind, because they forgot to make their gun's turret to turn any way. So the Germans just got out of the reach of their guns, and went right around in behind, and the Siegfried line fell.
The Germans come around and made the Maginot line. And they thought, "If the Yankees ever come over here, why, we'll just get down in this fortified concrete, and we'll be all right." What happened? The Yankees come over with blockbusters and busted them to pieces. She fell anyhow.

L-38 United States, here not long ago, thought they could build a ship that no other ship builders could build. It was called the Titanic. One night when she was steaming across the ocean with all of her engines a-running, and the bands was playing jazz music, whooping' it up, all of a sudden it turned to "Nearer My God to Thee." Why? She struck an ice gorge out there, and knocked a hole in her, and busted up the engines, and she went to the bottom of the sea. Why? God with His mighty hand shows this world it cannot stand. Man cannot achieve nothing by himself.

L-39 Now, today the great fuss is on about the nuclear weapons, and we're spending billions of dollars to try to get a man over on the moon. What good's it going to do after he gets on the moon? I ain't... As I said the other night, I'm not worried about getting on the moon; I'm wanting to get in heaven. So the moon's not far enough for me.
And then the Russians saying, "Oh, we put the first man in space." I sure different with them there. That man went in space about two years ago; and we've had One in space for two thousand years, building us a home to come to. But you see, man-made achievements, what man has achieved to do within himself, it will not work.

L-40 Now, we've tried to educate people to get what we would call the better class of people through education. Our seminaries has sent our ministers to school, which is fine; and learned an education by proper speaking, speech, and so forth, and better grammar that--where that the better class of people of the city, so-called, would come in to these churches. And we've filled our church full of that.
Now, I don't believe there is a better class of people than the people of God. See? And Jesus never worked upon such a class when He was here. He went to the fishermen, the illiterate, unlearned, ignorant. And that was what He chose. And God, if you could only understand Him, He likes to take something that's nothing and do something with it. That proves He's God. There's nothing you can brag on. He takes something that's nothing, to make something out of it. That proves that He is God.


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