<TITLE>08. Par 48-52</TITLE>L-48 When polio struck the nation. As we're all commanded now to go get this vaccine to stamp it out. When polio struck... Yesterday I was listening to a doctor as I was driving over the road, some doctor from Louisville. He said, "A few years ago, when the great plague hit Louisville," said, "if men would've stood where I did, and saw fifty-seven respirators at one time, and men, women, boys and girls, paralyzed with a disease called polio, and there was nothing could be done about it..." Said, "I never want to see a thing like that again."
But science thought, "If there is such an evil as polio, there surely is something to counteract it." They fought; they stood on the streets with boots, those firemen; they put hats out, and they begged; they bummed; they done everything, trying to find the key to unlock the door to liberty. And finally, one Christian gentlemen by the name of Salk found the vaccine. Why? There was an evil at stake, there was a killer at stake; there was a key somewhere that could unlock freedom again for man, and the Salk vaccine was the great treatment. Oh, what the key can do. The vaccine was brought forth, and now is stamping out the polio with this vaccine, because that it was a never tiring and never give up; that key laid somewhere. There was something would inoculate from it, and they were determined to find it.

L-50 And if there is such an evil as polio, diphtheria, smallpox, yellow fever, tetanus, lockjaw, and so forth, that science, these evils, has been able to fight, day and night, till they found a inoculation from it, because it's evil; it's a killer. How much more is there a key to salvation for a man that's in prison house of sin? There is a key to that door to liberate man from it.
A tre--key, usually, when it turns the lock, and when you find a key, it's got to be to some treasure, something that's worthwhile, or you wouldn't even lock it up. If it ain't worth locking up, just let it go. But when it's worth locking up... So a key usually is the--the note to something, or the way to enter to something that's worthwhile. The key, that's what it's for, now, it unlocks something that's worthwhile.

L-52 Now, we read in St. John the 10th chapter, Jesus said, "I am the Door to the sheepfold. I am the Door (not a door, the Door, the only Door). I am the Way (the only Way), the Truth, and the Life, and no man cometh unto the Father but by Me. I am the Door to the sheepfold and all that comes before Me is enemies, thieves and robbers." He is the Door to the sheepfold. He is the Door to salvation.
"There's not another name given under heaven whereby you must be saved, only through the Name of Jesus Christ." No church, no denomination, no creed, no doctrines of anything, only through Jesus' Name. That is the--that is the Key. No wonder Peter could use one of them on the day of Pentecost. They wanted to know how to get into that Door. He used the key. And there's only one Key, because there's just one Door. "I am the Door." And Peter had the key to It. And he said, "Repent, every one of you, and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sin, and you shall receive the treasures of God." It's the key to the Door, and Jesus is the Door.


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