<TITLE>03. Par 9-12</TITLE>L-9 But you see, we get so different, and we want it this a way, and we just won't go unless it goes this a way, and this one... Oh, you know how it is. We just... we... that's what... God brings us to that judgment seat again (See?), that we must stop that.
God's got a program, and let's just get right in it and move on. Don't wait and try to get this and that. You move yourself. God will move those who He's ordained to move that way. Uh-huh. You just take your own. It's your--your stand. You take your stand. If the next fellow doesn't, how do we know he... It might not be for him to take it. "My sheep hear My voice. All the Father has given Me will come to Me." Now, if that's not so, then Christ told something that's wrong.

L-10 Now, I'm going to teach on the subject of "Presuming." It's just "Presuming." Now, if we were... The Webster says to "presume" is to "venture without actual authority, or to take it for granted." That's what the word "presume" means: "go without authority, or just taking it for granted." Now, there's so many people does that: just take it for granted. "That's all right. Oh, it's all right to do that." Just take it for granted; now that's to presume.
Now, Israel made a fatal mistake when they did this. Not only Israel, but everybody else that does it. It will be a fatal mistake when you presume to walk with God, when God has not called you to walk with Him; or when you presume to venture out upon things that's not Scriptural, thinking it'll be all right. It's not all right.
Eve presumed. She presumed it would be all right, because Satan presented something looked awful nice. But she presumed it. It wasn't the Word. You don't want to do that. You want to stay with the Word. Don't move from that. Stay right there. No matter if you stand, and...
Remember, men that's ever done anything for God stood alone with God. On the road there's only room for two. That's you and God. You... Men that's ever done anything under the convictions by the Word, stood alone: Martin Luther, John Wesley, so forth, Finney, Sankey, Calvin, Knox, Spurgeon, whatevermore. See? Moses, Elisha, all of them stood alone on the Word of God. And that's the way you've got to do. It's an individual affair. You got to stand on the Word, take God's Word.

L-11 Now. We find out that Israel had come to this place where God, in His grace and mercy, had forgive their sins of all their disobedience after miracle after miracle. God said, "I've showed mighty signs among them..." In the preceding verses, "I've showed mighty signs, and they have ignored all these signs." They just walked right on through it anyhow, and did what they wanted to do, what they thought they ought to do. Not what God said do, what they thought they ought to do.
Now, that's where the difference is: Where we think we ought to do, and God says do it some other way. We got to come back and do it God's way, or we'll never pass that spot. That's it. You got to come right back where you left off.

L-12 I was told not long ago by a chaplain... He said he was called in; there was a man had been machine-gunned across the chest, like this, a captain. And he was laying dying. So the--the chaplain was called in to him in the tent; the man was struggling, trying to get his breath. And they'd just got him off the field. And he said, "Are you a Christian?"
He said, "I--I once was."
He said, "Well, you better be right away. You're dying."
He said, "I know it." ('Cause machine-gun bullets had cut him across the lungs some way, he told me. And said that he was dying, his lungs was filling up, gurgling in his throat.)
And he said, "Well, now," he said, "you once knew Him?"
Said, "Yes."
Said, "Now, think real hard. Wherever you left Him, that's right where you're going to find Him: where you left Him." That's right. How true that is. Right where you leave Him in the Word, right there's where you'll have to come back.


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