<TITLE>07. Par -</TITLE>L-11-1 There's something wrong somewhere. Still doing the same thing; still the same Gospel, I've never changed a bit since I started. I just started with the naked, bare Word of God, and I stayed right on It ever since. Thirty-two years I've been behind the pulpit and never taken anything back or changed anything; stayed just the way I started. I can't take it back; It's God's Word. And I--and if I say it just like it said here, the next time I have to say the same thing, 'cause here's the way it's wrote here. See? So just can't do nothing else about it. And the Holy Spirit's still doing the same things. So... But it looks like there's not enough concern. Now, I'm--wonder why.

L-11-2 Why isn't there a concern like there used to be? It's... I believe the reason that if there's not as much concern as there used to be; they're not as convinced as they used to be. You have to be convinced before you can be concerned. Not concerned--you take the time now. Instead of evangelizing and trying to do something, everybody wants a great big school or a great big something that they can teach and--and make the ministers have better pulpit manners and so forth.
You know what I believe? I believe that the people is not convinced that Jesus is coming soon. I don't believe that they're convinced that He's coming in this age. And I believe that's the reason that they're not concerned, because they're not fully convinced. That's right. They're not convinced that He's with them. If they were, they would come back to the Word. That's right.

L-11-4 And now, many people might misunderstand it. Love--love is--is disciplined. You must discipline people, if you love them. If your little girl was setting out in the road (as I said this morning) making mud cakes, if you really love her, you'd get her off that road.
What if your wife said, "John somebody (whatever your name is)--you know a--a..." You just let her run out with some other man, because you said, "Bless her little heart, she wants to do it, and I just love her so much; I'm going to let her do it." You'd be a poor excuse of a husband. She ought to get rid of you and get somebody that loves her, that'll take care of her. I didn't mean it that way, 'cause you can't do that.

L-12-1 But what am I trying to get at is this, that what if God would said to Eve, "Poor little Eve, you know you're My child. I--I--I... You didn't mean to do that." 'Course she didn't mean to do it; certainly she didn't, but she did it. And we know she did it. We see the results of it yet. But you see, He--he loved her, and He had to keep His Word to her. And God's got to keep His Word to us. So we must obey His Word. And when we obey His Word and see Him then vindicate what He said He would do, then we're convinced (That's right.), that the Word's right.

L-12-2 Now, when we find out... We bring... Here not long ago, a great evangelist to a Mohammedan... You read it in the paper like I did. This Mohammedan challenged that evangelist that Jesus Christ, it was a man worship; that people were following a man.
He believed in the same God as the evangelist did, but said, "Jesus is not His Son. It's just a man-made worship." And the evan--he challenged the evangelist; said, "The Bible said that the works that He did (Christ), His followers would do the same." He said, "Now, I'll bring in thirty sick people, and you bring in thirty sick people, and I'll heal everyone you do." See? And the evangelist run. He took air. And if I would've been the evangelist, I believe, if I didn't have enough faith to do it, I'd have never let that unbeliever stand there. I'd said, "I know somebody in our realms has got faith to do it."


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