<TITLE>16. Par 170-184</TITLE>L-170 Amos stood there and said, "The God that you claim that you're serving is going to destroy you." And it happened that way.

L-171   Now, I'm not condemning missionary programs. I'm not condemning big churches. But, the trouble of it is, people gets their eyes upon that, and upon... off the Word. And, finally, it leads you right off into that thing, and you find yourself slipping. Come right back to the Word. Don't get away from It. Oh, how we need a cry, out of the wilderness today. Certainly is true now. Certainly.

L-172 Other reasons, people reason. They want to reason. That's the first thing that got... That's what lost the fellowship of the human race, is when Satan introduced the program of reasoning against the Word being so. And it sound very logical.

L-173   Let's just take Satan, what he might have said to Eve, when God barricaded them in by His Word.

L-174 That's the only thing that God ever did give His people to fortify them from the enemy, was the Word. He never give us a creed. He never give us nothing but His Word. That's all. And God is infinite, omnipotent, unchangeable. He cannot change. His first program is perfect. He never has to alter it.

L-175 His first decision, when man sinned and crossed that great chasm between him and God, leaving hisself no way back, God, full of mercy and grace, accepted a substitute. Only a God that's full of mercy and grace could do a thing like that. He accepted a substitute, and that substitute was blood. That's the only place that man could ever come in fellowship with God again, is under the shed blood. And it's never been any time that man could fellowship to God, only by the blood. And is so true, where he fellowships with God.

L-176   Now, Eve let down the bars. Eve begin to reason. Satan said like this, "Now, you're... You don't know. You haven't had any schooling yet. I'm the professor of the seminary out here." His own. "And, I tell you, we've learned some things out there. We learned that God is so good! We learned in our seminary that God is so good! He don't expect you to do all He wrote there. He doesn't expect that."
"Yeah, but," she said, "the Lord God said."

L-177 Now, she'd have made a good preacher, if she stayed on That. That's the reason she's condemned to be one today. See? Keep her away from it. What would Amos say about that? I wish I could hear him for about five minutes, and record his message. I'd put it right on tape, let the whole world hear it. Uh-huh. Then I could keep quiet about it, from then on. Notice. Yes, sir, he would condemn it.

L-178   And notice what she said. Now, Satan said... Now, he couldn't do that with Eve, you know...

L-179 He couldn't do that with Adam, but he did with Eve. So he said to Eve, now, "Now you know this." He said, "You know, surely God is too good to hurt you. God... You surely won't die. You know He's a good God."

L-180 We hear so much of that today. He is a good God. But, in order to be good, He has to be just, also. That's what makes Him good. He's not wishy-washy. He is God.

L-181 And now, "God is too good to do that to you." And he begin, said, "Why, you'll be wise. You'll have an education. You'll be smart and wise. You'll--you'll know things that you don't know now." See?

L-182 She only had to know one thing, that was the Word. We don't have to have a Bachelor of Art, and a Ph.D., and a LL.D., and all these other things. Just know God's Word. The simplest child, that can read, can know it, know.

L-183   But, reason, and what did they get? What did they get? Right there they broke down. And Satan knowed he defeated the human race right there. And that's where he's defeated them ever since.

L-184 That's the reason Amos come. Because, popularity and popular opinions, and fine, great president or king, and had brought prosperity. The people will sell their lives for a mess of beans, like Esau. I'm not trying to hurt, but I'm trying to make truth.


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