<TITLE>16. Par -</TITLE>L-25-3 He is a good God, and the only way I can trust Him to be a good God, that He'll stay with His Word. How can you expect me to be truthful when I'm not truthful? If I tell you one thing and do something else, my word's pretty shaky. See? Only what makes Him a good God is because He spoke the Word, and we're to live by that Word. "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God, proceedeth out of the mouth of God." Then God's got to stay with that Word; that's what makes Him a good God.

L-25-4 Now, if He said, "Well, I'll let them get by with this. I--I'll let them do this. Well, that's all right. Oh, I--I--I'll move over here." Why, He's a wishy-washy. See? He isn't God; He's--He's just an ordinary man. See? But to be a good God, He has to stay with His Word. That puts every child... If He'll let this one commit adultery, and this other one drink a little, and--and this other one can do--lie a little, and this other one can steal a little, and this other one can do--do this, then make me just toe the line to come in? He's got one way, and all that goes in, is going in that gate. "Strait is the gate and narrow is the way. No defilement will enter therein."

L-25-5 Over in Revelations He said, "All without are sorcerers, whoremongers, and dogs, and so forth. Blessed are ye that doeth all His commandments, that he may have a right to the Tree of Life." That's right. There's one way, that's God. Don't reason it out no other way.
Well, the Roman church says, "We are the church. That--that Bible is not even worth the... Why--why, you couldn't..."
Bishop Sheen said, "To try to live with it was like walking through muddy waters."

L-25-8 See, see? How you going to do that? See? Then if he's right, then the Bible's wrong. The Bible's right; he's wrong. Now, what are you going to say? If God's Word's right, it's either Bishop Sheen or--or the Bible, not only Bishop Sheen, but Reverend So-and-so, and Dr. So-and-so, and So-and-so. I wouldn't have called the man's name, 'less he said it on the radio. So he said it out on the radio, so I guess I can call his name. Doctor So-and-so, and So-and-so said, "So-and-so and so-and-so." Now, who you going to believe, God or them?

L-26-1 "Well," say, "it really doesn't mean it just this way." It means it just the way that It's written, for that's the FIRST lie of the devil.
He said to Eve, "It just really doesn't mean that. Surely, God's too good to do that. You won't die."
But they did! And they will every time. Got to meet the Word.
Wisdom tries to take a--a better way: the way of modern, the way of popularity, the--an easier way; find hisself around just...

L-26-5 Now, you take a fellow here, maybe God go to dealing with him. Now, he thinks he has to come up, he has to make his wife come right to the line; he has to quit his card parties; he has to quit going to the dances; his wife has to let her hair grow out; she has to quit wearing makeup; he has to quit smoking, drinking; he's got to get out of that big society that he's in; got to humble himself at the altar. He's got to stand and be called a fanatic, holy-roller, Beelzebub, anything could be called. "Oh, I'll be religious, but I'll--I'll--I'll go down here and join the--this church down here; you're too narrow." There you are (See?), there's a reason, reason. Now, we're going to get to a great point in a few minutes on that. See? How are you going to know which is right and wrong then? See?

L-26-6 Now, tries to make the Word say something, knowledge does. Knowledge--wisdom tries to--to reason; wisdom finds a better way. There is no other way but God's way!
Wisdom tries to point out say, "Oh well, now you know, we couldn't do that in this time." We must do it anyhow! See? Tries to find a easier way. Tries to make the Bible say things that It does not say.


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