<TITLE>14. Par 49-52</TITLE>L-49 But is there anything that's certain? Yes. Hallelujah. Is there something that's positive? Sure. Yes. Jesus said, "Both heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word shall never." There's something that's certain. Yes, sir. "Heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word shall not pass away." Then that's certain.
One thing's sure: that's God's Word will never fail. No matter how critical critics might criticize It, how educationals might explain It away, how they might do this, that, or the other. But it won't stop It one bit. It'll happen just the same. As John said, "God's able of these stones to rise children to Abraham." God's going to do it. His Words are going to be fulfilled in their season, and nothing's going to stop it. I'm so glad of that, oh, how glad I am.

L-50 Paul, here, was talking in Corinthians 14:8, of training a soldier. He's trained to a sound. That soldier, if he's a trained soldier, he knows every sound of that trumpet just exactly what to do. He's trained to that trumpet. When that trumpet sounds...
He said, "If a trumpet gives an uncertain sound," then the soldier don't know what to do, because he's only trained to the sound of the trumpet. He knows exactly what to do, because the trumpet sounding tells him what to do.
He said, "Now, if the trumpet gives a uncertain sound, then he don't know what to do." Now, that was training in natural soldier. And the Christian soldier is trained to a trumpet, a sound of a trumpet. And that's the Gospel trumpet, the Gospel, the sound of the Word of God, the Gospel trumpet. And if one never knew the sound of the Gospel trumpet, he'd be a bit confused. If he didn't know what the Word said, and what the Word taught, just what the church said, he'd be a bit confused when he heard the sound of the trumpet. He wouldn't know how to prepare himself.

L-51 And I think that's where we've got to, the world today. The trumpet is sounding exactly with the Gospel, and the people don't know how to act. They don't know how to stand in line and make ready to battle. They're confused because they have been listening to different trumpets: creeds, denomination, sectarianism, all kinds of stuff. And when the true Gospel, with the true Word made manifest, proved in there that people don't know what to do. Some of them walks back, and says, "It--It--It's the devil."
The other one says, "It's telepathy."
"It's a... They're excited."
"There's no such a thing as the Holy Ghost. Dr. So-and-so said so."
I don't care what Dr. So-and-so said. What did God say? That's the only thing that's solid. His words will fail, but God's Word will never pass away. His word's uncertain, but God's Word's sure. That's the reason I build my hopes on nothing less than that Bible. It's got to be that.
But it's strange. As I go about and preach the Word, and testify of things, maybe taking a simple thing, one statement of the Bible... Usually it's better to do that. I could stand here for weeks and go through things to show you that the Scripture pointing right to this time, and they don't believe it.

L-52 Now, here other night, I scolded you women about having short hair. Did you know the Bible speaks of that for the last days? Right. Do you know in the Bible, it was the disobedience of a woman that started with the feminish, a woman back there, when this thing first issued in of death? And when it's going out the same way? The Gentile nation was issued in with King Nebuchadnezzar with unknown tongues and interpretation, and goes out the same way? Issued in by a worship of an image of a man, and go--holy man, Daniel (which was Belteshazzar), the image of Daniel, to make everybody worship that image of a holy man, and go out the same way?
You know, every Scripture has a compound answer to it, repeats Itself? Certainly It does. And we're in that day. How we could take hours on that, and show you just exactly it's the truth. And you can explain it to people, and show it to people, and they don't know which way to go.


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