<TITLE>10. Par 64-68</TITLE>L-64 And may I say this with reverence. But how many times has so-called ministers of this day, have said, "If there be a Holy Ghost, if you believe that the Holy Ghost is just like it was in the beginning, let me see you take old So-and-so over here, or this, oh, this man over here, this woman over here. I'll go get them. Let me see you perform it."
Do they realize that that's the same spirit (No, they don't) that said to Jesus, "If Thou be the Son of God, take, make these stones bread. If thou be the Son of God, tell us who hit you on the head. If you're a Prophet, tell us who hit you," with a rag around His face. Hit Him on the head, and then pass the stick one to another, said, "Tell us, if you're a Prophet. Tell us who hit you; we'll believe you then. Tell us, if you are the Son of God. We're honest in our hearts. If you're the Son of God, come down off the cross and well believe you're the Son of God."

L-66 I wonder if many people today, both men, women, young and old, are not standing in that same spot. And you're going to remember someday, that you were in His Presence at His Fountain; and wanted to see a prank, or wanted to see a trick or something another, "That'd make me believe it. Let me have a shiver over my back, and let me do this or that, I'll believe it." (See?) some sensation, it's plain idolatry. Let me--you...

L-67 You know, Jesus said in one case, He asked a question. I'd like to ask the church tonight this. Jesus said, "Why? Why? Why do you call Me your Lord, and do not the things that I commanded you to do? Why could you call Me Lord, and keep not My Word? Why can you call Me Lord, and deny the things that I have commanded you to preach and teach?" What is it? What does it? It's because that some denominational tradition stands between them and the Word. And anything that stands between you and God is an idol; it takes the place of God. Why call you "Lord"? "Lord" means "ownership." Lord owns the property. And if God owns me, if I am His, and He turned me around one day when I was on the wrong road, and called me for a purpose, what am I to do but to fulfill His desire, like He did Paul. How can I do anything else than to keep His Word? "Why do you call Me Lord?"

L-68 I want to call another fellow here, see about him. What about Judas, what he has to remember Him by? We're talking about remembering the Lord. Judas tonight and, all--until he's no more, will have to remember that he sold his birthrights. He sold Jesus for personal gain. We ridicule Judas--Judas. We say he was a filthy, a--a--a bad guy; he's not fit for no place or no society; he isn't fit for heaven. Why? He sold his Lord, after he had the opportunity to even to be a--a disciple, to be an apostle, the highest calling in the Bible, higher than a prophet. He had the opportunity to be a--an apostle, and sold that right for a personal gain. And now he has to remember that. That's how he remembers Jesus: personal gain.
And I wonder how many of them tonight yet stand in the pulpit, yet wear the robe of the choir, set in the seat of the deacon, or take the place of the treasurer, trustee, or whatever it might be, his position in church, or the minister at the pulpit, and still selling his opportunity for personal praise, "Doctor, Bishop So-and-so," for personal praise, personal gain.


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