<TITLE>07. Par 23-25</TITLE>L-23 And now, I believe the Word of God is so perfect that we cannot misinterpret It. We must just teach It the way It is, and live It the way It's taught. Now, I--I believe now... Now, like the priest told me, he said, "God will judge the world by the church." Well, if it's by the church, which one is the church? The Catholic, one side, there's a Roman Catholic says, "We are"; the Greek Catholic says, "We are." And oh, my, the different--the different Catholic phases, which one of them's right? See?
Then you say, "Well..." Then the Lutheran says, "We're the church"; the Baptist says, "We're the church"; the Methodist says, "We're the church"; the Pentecostal says, "We're the church." The--the... Well, there's nine hundred and sixty different denominations, so which one is the church? It'd be very confusing. See? But God will judge the people by His Word, 'cause that's the Word.

L-24 Now, over in the book of Revelations, it said, "Whosoever shall take out anything out of the Book, or add anything to It, the same will be, his part will be taken from the Book of Life." Now, I believe it's so perfect, that the reason we got death today, sorrow, sickness, these graveyards out here; every man that ever died, every little suffering baby, every sickness was because when Eve failed to believe that God's Word was sufficient. She mistrusted God's Word, and that brought death.
God gave His church... God cannot change. So God gave His church the best thing, and when God ever makes a decision He can never say, "I was wrong." See? Do you understand it? Look. God (Maybe I talk too loud. I hope I don't.), God--God can never change His decision. When I say anything, or you say anything, we're finite. That means just human. And we say, "Next year we learn more than we knowed the year before." I... See, I--I get smarter. You do. Each one of us does, but not God. He's infinite. That means He's perfect to begin with. Every decision is perfect. He can never change His.

L-25 Look, so you'll not misunderstand it. In the garden of Eden, when man first sinned and disassociated, cut himself off from God, fellowship with God... Now, he tried to make hisself a religion. He sewed some leaves together to cover hisself up. But his man-made religion wouldn't work. And God made a decision of the offering of blood. He killed some animals, took the skins and covered them up.
Now, that was God's decision in the garden of Eden to save man and to fellowship with man through the shed blood of an innocent being. And He's never changed it. We'll never be able to come to a place, say, "We all must be Lutheran; we all must be Catholic; we all must be this or that." But one place God meets man, and that's on the basis of the shed Blood, the Blood of Jesus Christ, His Son. It was so at the beginning.
In Israel, man met only... God only met man under the shed blood: in the days of Job, only the shed blood. All down through the history it's been shed blood, because that was God's first recognition to man, how to save him: by the blood.


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