<TITLE>25. Par 124-129</TITLE>L-124 That's what the world wants. That's what it wanted then; that's what it wants now. That's what it's going to get now. Men standing there, being out with the next man's wife, drinking, smoking, and with a gown on to cover it up, thinking... God sees through that fig leaf. That Eve standing there with enough guilt and filth in her heart to... If it'd turn to water, would float a boat. And stand there with a talent that by nature she received to sing, and hold her voice till she's black in the face, almost, trying to sing like some angel or something another like that, and down beneath that gown, a scandal, filthy, dirty... And you can stand at the pulpit and say it, and she'll stick them lips up, painted, walk out of the building, say, "I don't have to hear such stuff as that." But you'll scream out someday for pity in hell. It'll be too late then. You receive it while you got a chance to receive it. And you... Oh, my.

L-125 But the Church receives a Kingdom that when we set in heavenly places and are lifted up into the Presence of God, setting in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, knowing this, with the assurance of faith, that we're in the Presence of our anointed King. Oh. There is to be a new heaven come forth and a new earth, and which will never part again as long as eternity lasts. We're looking for that new heavens and earth. This one, you can have all of it you want. For me, I want That one.
It depends on where you set your affections. It depends on what post you tie to. You tie to your denominational post, you're going right down with it. If you tie to anything of this world, to any politics and things like that, and trust in that, you'll sink with it.

L-127 But my hopes is built on nothing less than Jesus' Blood with righteousness. And all around my soul gives way, and every minister turns me down, and every creed runs me out, and I have not even one place to go, He's all my hope and stay. Upon that Rock, on Christ that solid Rock I stand, all other grounds is sinking sand. Someday I maybe shall be buried in a graveyard somewhere, down beneath the sea in a airplane wreck, killed in a train or a automobile, wherever it might be that God has chose for me to go, but this one thing, I know this, that I've anchored my soul in that Haven of Rest yonder in His Word. I believe it, that this has got to be God's Word.
God has to judge the world by something. If He judges it by the church, which one of it is He going to judge by? Why, there's no such a thing as could be judged. Then there's only one Thing that's left, His Word; It's eternal; It can't be added to or taken away.

L-129 I've anchored my soul there, with the simplicity of laying my hands upon my Sacrifice, confessing that I'm no good at all. There's nothing in me. O Lord God, send that Messiah upon me and change my being to what I was and make me in Your own fashion, the way You'd have me to be.
No matter how much you could burn a body, how much you could destroy a person, how much you can talk against them, or whatever he says, someday He'll raise us up again. And there is a Kingdom that we receive that cannot be moved. Oh, my.
And remember, of all this glorious thing that we're now enjoying, setting in heavenly places, is just a prelude. Hallelujah. It's a prelude to what's a-coming. It's just the introductory of the symphony that's to... Oh, Hallelujah. Talk about this shouting, and praising, and glorifying, and magnifying the Lamb... One day when the Angels stand around the earth, the curvature of the earth, with bowed heads, and hear that little Blood-washed group sing them redemptive songs of the Blood of Jesus Christ, O God, I want to be joined with them. Let me take my place with her now. Let me make my assurance: Jesus is mine; I'll take Him and His Word. Yes.


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