<TITLE>06. Par 17-19</TITLE>L-17 I come from a Catholic background, being an Irishman. My people before me (not father and mother, but the next generation) come from Dublin, Ireland, and were--and were Catholic. When I was... Knowed of God when I was a little boy... I wanted to find out about Who God was, and my people didn't go to church. So I asked the priest about God, and he said, "God is in His church. There's where God dwells. You have to belong to His church."
I said, "How must I belong?" Of course, you Catholic people understand what I was told.
Then I come to find out that... I played in a German neighborhood where I was raised, of people named Halman, Roderick, Fisher, Roder, so forth. I was the only... One more boy and I were the only Irish boys in the whole school. Well, these boys were all Lutheran. Well, they said they--their church was the church.
Then I come to find out there was another church called Baptist, Presbyterian, Anglican. Oh, my. Well, which one of them churches is He in? That's what I wondered. Where is He at? If this one's right, this one's got to be wrong, 'cause they're contrary one to another. Now, which one of them churches is God in?
I set down and started reading the Bible, watching nature. Come to find out that the Bible said that, "Whosoever shall take anything out of this Bible, or add anything to It, the same will be taken from his part of the Book of Life." So I seen that God will judge the world one day by Jesus Christ and His Word.
Now, therefore, I believe the Bible. I believe God can do things that's not wrote in His Word. But as long as He does just what He's got in the Word, then I'm satisfied with that.

L-18 Now some of you brethren, remember in the Old Testament they had a way of finding out whether a prophet was telling the truth, or a dreamer was dreaming right, his dream was from God. They taken him to the temple where the breastplate of Aaron was hanging, and it was called Urim Thummim. Many of you people know about it, reading in the Bible. And when this prophet begin to prophesy, and those supernatural lights didn't register back off of that, like a rainbow across that, making the Urim Thummim from that breastplate, no matter how real it sound, they didn't believe it. No, sir. It had to be answered back by God.
Now, the Old Testament was done away with and fulfilled, not done away, but fulfilled. And when it did, we took a New Testament. Now, the old Urim Thummim was back in the Levitical priesthood under Aaron's breast. But this time we have two more tables of law--the New and Old Testament. And that's God's Urim Thummim to me. If God doesn't speak back through His Word when we see something, then I just leave it alone. But as long as It's the Word, then I know that heavens and earth will pass away but His Word will never fail.
Therefore, I believe the Bible to be the absolute truth of God, and it isn't to be added to or taken away from, but just lived preached in Its simplicity, lived the way It's wrote, and God is... If He ever was God, He's still God. And if This is His Word, and He made a promise that He cannot back up, then He isn't God.

L-19 And I found this far, friends... I'm thirty-one years behind the platform, pulpit. I have never seen anything that He promised but what He would do it. That's right. I've asked Him for things I didn't get, but I've never asked Him sincerely for anything but what He gave it to me or told me why He couldn't give it to me. There's many things I don't know. I'm finite; He's infinite. So the great infinite God...
And I, a finite man, there's many things that I desire that wouldn't be good for me to have, so I just trust Him as My Father to give me what's right.


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