<TITLE>11. Par -</TITLE>L-17-3 Now remember, he'd been a religious man. And to some of you peoples this morning... And I know you realize that this tape is being made, will play in every nation under the heavens, about, around the world. And some of you peoples who's here, present; and some of you out where the tapes will be played in the other nations by an interpreter giving it to the tribes of Africa, back in the Hottentots, and--and in--all around; and to you religious leaders who just got an education of the Bible, you've got it from a historical standpoint and may be able to explain all these things; but if you haven't got an absolute, haven't got an experience, and if that experience that--that you claim you have makes you deny that every word of this isn't just as true to the church today as it ever was, and you are trusting upon your Bachelor of Art degree, or whatever you might have; if you're trusting upon the thoughts of your organization that would say, "The days of miracles is past; and we have no Divine healing; and the baptism of the Holy Spirit like they received on the day of Pentecost is not for the people today"; if that's all you've got, my precious brother, sister, you need a Damascus road experience.
You need to meet this living God where you--not only just a mythical thought in your mind, not some shiver, or some kind of a sensation, but a taught and experience of a real genuine...

L-17-4 The same Jesus that walked in Galilee is a-living today, and alive forevermore; and He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, an absolute, that you don't have to take what anyone said, you know for yourself, not some sensation.
And if the sensation that you've had--and if somebody... It might've been a real Bible sensation. And somebody tried to explain it away from you, saying those things were in some other day, be careful. It is true. Be careful. But there is a way to know. Test it with the Word; That's the Blueprint.
If the house goes up contrary to the blueprint, the contractor will tear it down and rebuild it. But it's got to go to the blueprint.

L-18-3 No matter what your experience is then; if something in you tells you that that Bible isn't true, that power of God, apostles, prophets, and teachers, and pastors, and the gifts of the Spirit just isn't the same as It was when It flowed through them apostles at Pentecost, there's something wrong with your absolute; it has to tie to a denominational creed, instead to God's Bible, when He said, "Both heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word shall never fail."
Watch what your absolute is. You might be absolutely sure that you're in good fellowship with the pastor; and might be absolutely sure that you're in fellowship with the district presbyter; you might be absolutely sure that you're in fellowship with the bishop, or some other great man in your church; but if you're not--your absolute isn't Jesus Christ... "For upon this rock I'll put My absolute, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it," spiritual revelation of Who He is and knowing. All right.

L-18-5 Oh, now, when you become like Paul, have the same absolute that he had... A Christ-centered life is a different life than what you once had; and it might be a very religious life that you live.
Oh, I've heard people say, "Now, they're very religious." That don't have one thing to do with it. I've just seen many religions, very devout, many times more sincere than the Christian people of today profess.


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