<TITLE>09. Par 34-38</TITLE>L-34 Now, in order to do this, he has to make it very appealing, reasonings. And that's the way Satan does. He's good at the job. And he's a good adversary. And he makes it appealing. He had to make it appealing to Eve. He said, "Now, look, dear, you know, you don't know what's right and wrong. And you--you must remember that it's--this fruit is pleasant to the eye. It--it--it'll make one wise, and all..." Oh, if that isn't a good bait. "Just get your Ph.D., or LL., double L., Q.U., S.T.D., or something like that. You'll be wise."
Remember now, that isn't what is it. It's faith in God that does it. You might have enough degrees to plaster that wall with them and still not know God. See? You know God by faith, nothing else. How by faith, what? Faith in His Word. That's the only way He recognizes faith." Faith cometh by hearing, hearing by the Word of God." That's how it comes, by hearing the Word of God.

L-35 Now, Satan made it appealing. He still makes it appealing. Now, I'm not belittling anything. I hope you don't get me like that, I--I... If I do I don't mean it that way. But Satan tries to make theology and--and education an appeal. Why, we've been trying to educate the world for two thousand years and getting worse off than it ever was. You can't bring people to Christ by education, by denomination. They try to make it pretty. Sin is beautiful. Certainly, it's pretty. Now, if you take in the Bible, we find out.

L-36 I was speaking here a few nights ago somewhere upon the subject of Noah and his days. Take Genesis 6, "when the sons of God saw the daughters of men." And once I was studying history and I was listening to what the historian was giving his... Or no, I beg your pardon, it was a commentary, on what he thought the--the "sons of God" was. He said it was fallen Angels that pressed themselves into human flesh and seen women, and how appealing that women was. And these sons of God become flesh.
"If you take it that way," I thought, "my precious brother, you're more smarter than I. But if you do that, you make the devil a creator then." So the devil cannot create. He just perverts what God's created. There's only one creation. That's God: one Creator. A wrong is a right perverted. A lie is the truth misused. See? Adultery is the right act misused. See? All wrong is a right made perverted. And that's all Satan can do, is just pervert what God's already done (See?), a perversion. All right.

L-37 Now, we find that many times Satan makes it so--so appealing that you'd be more popular. Now, that's what he did to Eve: wise, smart, rich. Today he's made it so appealing till people want to put millions of dollars in buildings; and then preaching the coming of the Lord is at hand. The churches are building greater auditoriums, and--and buying up more land and--and everything; and then preaching the coming of the Lord is at hand, and missionaries on the field trying to get the Word to the poor people that haven't heard it one time, and have to suffer for it. See? Don't look right to me.
But Satan tries to make it appealing. He fixes the churches. Makes it an intellectual church, fine, intelligent.

L-38 I live close to a--to a certain organization. It's fine, wonderful people, I suppose. And a man... An old man, setting outside, waiting to be prayed for, because this minister didn't believe in prayer for the sick, I wasn't at the place at the time. The old man was waiting: storming, blowing. And because the old fellow was kind of, looked like a tramp (poor old fellow didn't have much shoes on his feet, and his old coat was all ragged and torn) and... But this minister wouldn't even let him come on the porch, get out of the rain. And I just wondered if when we get up to heaven if there's just going to be a special little place for the intellectual, and the poor and everything somewhere else. Now.


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