<TITLE>11. Par 116-130</TITLE>L-116 I had a brother, "Rookie," they called him, goes out here, and the army gives him a ninety-pound pack on his back. And that's pretty near as much as he weighed. They give him a shovel, to dig a hole with; a rifle, and a whole bunch of hand grenades. And, oh, I never seen such a pack! The poor little fellow couldn't hardly move. And they took him down the road for a five-mile hike. It like to killed him. He said, "What's this nonsense for? What do I need with this great big old helmet?" Now, look. Army knows he's going to need that sometime. "What do I want with a shovel, out here on the highway, walking?" Better get used to using it. You might need it.

L-117 The government isn't going to issue no thing unless you know they know you're going to have to use it. You must train for that. They find the best things that they can find, to protect you with, because they're interested in the nation. They're interested in you being fortified the best that you can, away from the bullets. That's always been that.

L-118 It started in the garden of Eden. And God trains His Church. And the...

L-119   You know, we always have to improve. Now, the old airplanes we used to use back in the First World War; the Second World War, why, them little knockers in the air was altogether out, when they put up these nice big super planes they had. Why, they were nothing. And now, the ones that they just used in this last war, now they're obsolete. They don't need them anymore. They got jets. And, see, you're always trying to improve, to improve on the thing for defense.

L-120 But you know what? God don't have to improve. God gave His children, His soldiers, the very best thing that could be given them. When He give them, what did He give them? He give them His Word at the garden of Eden, and man was to fortify himself behind the Word of God, and no devil can get him. Stay in the Word.

L-121   Now, the enemy spy, Satan, tried to find out what could he do to break into that. So he--he knowed he just couldn't come out and bluff her, so the only thing that he could do was to get her on reasoning. And that's what God uses today, to fortify His Church, is His Word. And Satan comes around with reasoning power. Satan knowed that was the loophole. That was the place that people would break the easiest, was at reasoning.

L-122 You say, "Now, let me just reason with you. Now is it necessary?"

L-123 If God said it was necessary, it's necessary, whether we have to cry, and boohoo, and do all this. If God said that the baptism of the Holy Ghost is necessary, I don't care how heavy It is, and how much of the world you have to give up. You're going to have to use It, one of these days, to stay alive. The only way of survival.

L-124   "Now, should we practice Divine healing, when we got the best doctors in the world?"

L-125 God gave you Divine healing 'cause He knows you have to use it. He gave you the gifts of the Spirit.

L-126 And as soon as Satan got around Eve, he begin to reason with her. Now, "Surely, surely, God wouldn't do that."

L-127 The people say today, "There's no such a thing as hell." A lot of them tell you that. See? "Oh, surely God wouldn't burn His children."

L-128 Certainly, He doesn't burn His children. But the Devil will, his. Whose child are you? That's the next thing. Hell was created for the Devil and his children, not God's children. Not one of them is going there. That's right. It depends on whose child you are.

L-129   Now, God gave Eve and Adam His Word, and He has never changed It. He's always had... The Christian, or the believer, his Defense is the Word.

L-130 Heavens and earth will pass away. Every creed will pass away. Every denomination will fail. Every nation will sink. But God's Word will stand, Eternally. There'll be a time when the morning star won't shine any longer. There'll be a time that the sun won't shine, and the moon won't shine, and the world will spin in its orbit.


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