<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>62-0711, Hear Ye Him, Open Bible Standard Church, Spokane, WA, 96 min
L-1 Thank you, Brother Borders. Good evening, friends. You may be seated. Certainly nice to be back tonight, in Spokane, Washington, where we've enjoyed such wonderful fellowship around the Word of God in times past. And I was--just met your pastor. And he was telling me that this was the same building that we were in about fifteen years ago when we came through here. And it certainly has changed, and to the better. And we're thankful for that.
And we are bringing you greetings from the other parts of the world, of pilgrims who are sojourning as you are, looking for the coming of the Lord. We believe that the day's drawing nigh. I don't know how long it'll be. And if He isn't here today, I'll be looking for Him tomorrow, if I'm living, just waiting and watching for that time. We have been, through the years.

L-2 And someday our watching will be over. For we are as Abraham was of old, "we are looking for a city whose Builder and Maker is God." And therefore, we profess that we're not of the world. We become pilgrims. We're looking for that city. All of our rights of this world, the things that we once cherished and thought was so great; such as treasures of life, such as money and popularity, and, oh, things that the unbeliever seeks after. Then we lay that aside when we find Christ, and He becomes our main stay is Christ, the Son of God.
I'm glad to be with this church--in this church tonight. I like that sign, "Open Bible." That means take it all. That's the way we have to take It: all of It. I believe that the Word of God is the Standard in which God will judge the world by, is by the Word.

L-3 I'm of a Catholic background, as you all know. When I was a young boy... My mother and father both married out of the church. And they... I had that call in my life from just a child. I suppose you've read the books. I knew there was a God. I'd met Him; He'd talked to me. And though my people, they thought maybe I was just nervous, and something wrong, upset. But I--I knew there was a person, that had, I'd talk to Him, and He'd talk to me and told me not to drink, or smoke, or defile my body. There was a work for me to do.

L-4 And I wanted to find what that was when I become about twenty years old, eighteen, twenty, and I went to the church. And told me that God was going to judge the world by a church. Well, then if that be so, then there's about nine hundred different organizations of them. So now, which one's He going to judge it by? So then, I thought if He judges it by the Catholic church, the Lutheran's certainly out. If He judges it by the Lutheran, the Baptist is out. If He judges it by the--by the Methodists, then the Baptist too, is out. And I just wondered what it was all about.
So finally I come to find out that He will judge the world by His Word. That was what He gave man in the beginning, to fortify the man from sin, was to give the Word. And just to misbelieve one part of It is eternal separation from God. That's what happened when Eve, just never disbelieved it, just reasoned with something contrary to It. Then she don't have to disbelieve it, just reason with it. And anything that reasons against the Word, remember, it's the enemy. Don't you listen to it at all. It's got to be the Word.


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