<TITLE>18. Par -</TITLE>L-26-5 Oh, you're getting to be a pretty good man right now. See? You're coming up. See? What with? With faith, then with virtue, then knowledge. See how it's building this man? You can see there's no--no way of escaping it. This is the way to become in the full stature of Christ. Yes, sir.
To judge, judge right, judge whether it's right or wrong to believe God's Word; judge whether it's right or wrong whether I should serve a creed or serve God; judge whether it's right or wrong, "I should be born again, or join a church." Then you begin... Judge right when the preacher says, "The days of miracles is passed."
The Bible said, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever."
Now, which are you going to believe? When you say, "I'll take God." Now, you don't say that to say, "Well, I--I take it," just from your heart, "but something in you--your faith pushes out there. There you are. Your faith says, "I know He's the same. I've witnessed Him the same." There's nothing can take it away from you. "I know He's real." Then add that to your faith. Lay it down on the foundation.

L-27-2 See, you're coming up now. Coming right on up towards the Kingdom, got to this spot now, all right.
Now, the next thing the preacher will tell you, and many people say, "These things that you read in the Bible, they were for another day. Now, I'll tell you why: Because we don't need those things today. We don't need it. See, we shouldn't; we don't have to practice those things: Divine healing; we don't practice speaking with tongues in the church to--to keep our church straight. And we don't do this." We'll get to that; I got a Scripture wrote down over here about that (See?), whether we should do it yet or not.
Now, but here he said, "I don't know, we shouldn't do that today. Only thing I think we should do: we should learn to speak properly before the crowd; we should go and let a psychiatrist test our mind and see if we're able--to be able to present ourselves, if our IQ is high is enough to do it, and--and so forth, like that. I think that we hold the greatest congregations; we build our organization."

L-27-5 Were not building an organization. I'm not here this morning to build an organization. Christ never sent me to build an organizations. Christ sent me to build individuals to the statue of Jesus Christ that they might be the power house...?... dwelling place of His Spirit by His Word (Uh-huh.)--by His Word. See? Build up the individual to that place, not build an organization to a greater denomination, but build the individual to sons and daughters of God. That's the idea.
See, add to your faith virtue; to your virtue, add knowledge. Well, now, you're coming to a place.

L-28-2 Now, when they begin to say, "Well, we don't have to accept that today." You do have to. It must be. The Scriptures cannot lie and, "There are no private interpretation," the Bible said. You just believe it the way it's written there. See, you've got to have these things. And the only way you'll ever be able to have them is to have heaven-born knowledge. And heaven-born knowledge will vindicate the Word.
See, you've got to believe, now, not make-believe it. None of these are make-beliefs. See, if you try to say, "I got it..." Don't be a blackbird putting peacock feathers in yourself (See?), 'cause they'll fall right out. They're not naturally growed in there; they're just stuck in.


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