<TITLE>06. Par 28-31</TITLE>L-28 Why, did you ever see a man that was lost? Did anybody ever have the experience of bringing a man lost? It's the most pitiful thing you ever seen. When a man gets lost, he goes wild. He don't know what he's doing. We caught a man out there, a boy, and he had been lost in the woods, and he was thought... He was a rancher, but he was in the wrong territory and he got lost, turned around. And when they found him three days later, he was running like a wild man, screaming to the top of his voice. His lips was all eat up, and he throwed his gun away, and he didn't know what to do. And when his own brother, when... They had to catch him and tie him. When his own brother come to him, he fought at him like an animal, tried to bite him; he didn't know where he was at. Why? He was lost. And when a man's lost, he's in a state of bewildered. And he don't know that he's in that state, because his being lost sends this fever upon him, and he doesn't know where he's at and how he's acting.

L-29 So is it when a man's lost from God. He'll do things that he ordinary wouldn't do. He'll do things that--that's beyond the thoughts of a human being doing. A lost man from God, a lost church from God, a church that's gone away from God, got away from the principles of God's Bible, will do things that sometimes that you wouldn't expect to find in a church of the living God. They'll get their money by bunco games, playing lottery, gambling, anything that they can do. They'll teach anything, let anything get by, pat men on the back who's big payers in the church, and so forth like that, to let them get by with it. That's right. Put deacons on the board that's been married four or five times, just in order to get by with it, to make ends meet. There's only one end you've got to meet; that's your obligation to God. Stand and tell the Truth. Lost--lost man is in a bewildered state; he's a madman.

L-30 The guide has understanding, how to go and what to do. God in... God has always sent a guide to His people. God has never failed. He sends a guide, but you've got to accept that guide. See? You've got to believe it. You've got to go the way he says. If you get into a wilderness, and your guide says "We go this way," and yet you think you go that way, you're going to come up lost. Then when you... God sends us a guide to guide us, we've got to follow that guide. No matter what we think, what looks reasonable and what looks ridiculous, we're not subjects to divide that; the guide is the only one.

L-31 God in the Old Testament sent prophets. They were guides, because the Word of the Lord came to the prophet. They were guides. They instructed the people as we had last night of Isaiah and Uzziah. They was instructed, and they instructed the people and guided them. And now, God has always sent His guides; He's always never been without a guide. All through the ages God's always had somebody that represented Him on this earth in all ages.
Now, sometimes they get off the guide, "off the beam," as we call it. When Jesus was here on earth, don't you remember Jesus said to the Pharisees, "You blind guides"? Blind guides, blind to spiritual things... See? Now, they were supposed to be guides, guides to the people, guiding the people to salvation. But Jesus said, "You're blind." And He said, "Let them alone, for if the blind lead the blind, won't they both fall in the ditch?" Blind guides, oh, how the world has been contaminated with that, blind guiding. He doesn't want you to rely on your own understanding. God does not want you to rely on your understanding, or your thoughts, or any man-made thoughts.


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