<TITLE>08. Par 32-35</TITLE>L-32 What's the matter with people anyhow? Trying to achieve something himself. That's his... Why? He is made up that way. But something in him made that, but he doesn't take it in the right direction. He's trying to take it by his own achievement.
Adam, himself, tried to make a super religion without an atonement. Adam wanted to make a religion where he could just live any way you wanted to, put on a little fig leaf apron, and that's all there was to it. See? Cain tried the same thing. Instead of bringing blood, the atonement, he brought apples, pears, or what the fruits of the land was, trying to make something himself, trying to achieve something.
Nimrod tried to build a super tower, larger than all the other towers in the world so he could go up. Well, if God got angry with him, why he'd go up on the tower and the floods would pass under him: super tower.

L-33 Nebuchadnezzar built a super city. It had hanging gardens, and it was a great place. It was a pattern of heaven. Right before the throne flowed the river Euphrates. And they find out that that's the way the throne of God, the river of Life by the throne of God is.
Trying to achieve something, trying to make it big, great, so he could say, "See what I done." Super... It's just in man.
Our own nation, jealous of England, not long ago built a super ship, said it couldn't be sunk. But she did sink, the Titanic, a super ship. They said, "It cannot be sunk." But she went down just the same. And the poet wrote the song: "God, with a mighty hand, shows this world it cannot stand." That's right.

L-34 France built a super Siegfried line. They thought, "We'll build this line. Behind it we can have women, money, and wine, and whatever we want. And if Germany ever comes after us, the only thing we'll do, we will just turn these guns on them and run them back: the Siegfried line. But what happened? They forgot something. Germany marched around behind it, and they couldn't turn the guns. They took it.
Germany built them a Maginot line, a great Maginot line, fortified themselves under there. But along come the Americans with a blockbuster and blowed it out. See, trying to achieve something with theirselves.

L-35 The church has tried to achieve a super denomination. That's right. We've been asked in the papers recently... You've been noticing it, "Why don't all the churches emerge into one and come back to the mother church where it begin, in Rome?" I want one scholar; I want one historian... And we got one of the best setting right here. I want one scholar, one minister, one historian to ever show me where the church begin in Rome. The church begin in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.
I'm... will believe the pope, if he wants to take it back to that. I'll go with him back there (That's right.), but not to Rome. I'll admit this: Rome is the mother place of all organization religion, and the Bible said in the 17th chapter that she was, and she had daughters after her.
But each one is trying to build a super denomination. It's too bad it gets into ours too. To get members we proselyte, and pull, and everything else to get members, trying to make a super denomination. And then, when they get a big denomination, they try to make it super by getting the mayor of the city, and the judge, and the better-dressed, and the better-educated. You only get a intellectual bunch of cold formal nothing. That's right.


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