<TITLE>06. Par 39-46</TITLE>L-39   I was reading in the Nicaea Council, when the great issues come up at Nicaea, Rome, three hundred years after the death of Christ, in the great Nicaea Council, when the great church that stood for what was right, they wanted the Bible. And the Roman converts of the first church of Rome had injected dogmas, to say, for instance, like we have Christmas.

L-40 Christmas, Christ was no more borned on the twenty-fifth day of--of December than I was. Why, the hills of Judea was snowy, and He... It contrasts all other Bible prophecies. He was borned in the spring, like all lambs are born. Why was He born in a barn instead of a house? He was a Lamb. Why was He not just run up to the altar or to His altar where He was nailed to, the cross? He was led to the cross. You lead the sheep to the slaughter. He was a Lamb. Then He was born when lambs was born.

L-41   But, you see, to do that, they had the sun-god's birthday, which, on the solar system, the--the sun in the five days from December the twentieth unto December the twenty-fifth, there's hardly a moving at all, of the sun. lt--it varies a little each day, gets longer and longer and longer till it hits its longest day in July. And then, in December, its shortest day. And then that little time of the twenty-fifth, from the twentieth to the twenty-fifth, they had the Roman circus and the celebration of the sun-god's birthday. So then Jupiter, which was a Roman god, and then they injected it, in saying then, "We will take the Son of God and the sun-god's birthday, put that together and it be one great celebration." That's contrary! And, oh, the many injections that they placed in there!

L-42   And then when them true man of God who wanted to stay with the Word, like Polycarp, Irenaeus, Martin, those great, early, sainted man who wanted to stay with the Truth. And when they brought through the Nicaea Council, some of those people had been so rejected until prophets came in out of the wilderness with nothing around them but a piece of sheepskin, to sit in that council. But they knowed the Word of the Lord. But popularity, them fifteen days of bloody politics, and overrode It. Then we had a thousand years of dark age, see.

L-43   But God promised that that Trumpet would sound again. Always the people listens to the true Voice of the Word, always examine what you do by the Word.

L-44 The voice of politics. And we in America and the rest of the world, have a loud speaking voice today, and that's the voice of Hollywood. It's captured the world. Let somebody come out in Hollywood with something, you find it all over the country. Now, we notice that they have set a pattern for our women, on their dress, their hair styles. They set that dress.

L-45   The church ought to know the Voice of the Trumpet of God on that! But there's so much confusion because you see others do so, examples. Don't never pattern yourself after that kind of an example, because it's perishable. Always hear the Voice of God, what He says about it.

L-46 And then we notice, at Hollywood, they raise up things. And just let me speak just a moment on this before we go further. There was a--a thing come out not long ago, that a--a man in Hollywood... Nothing against the man now, he's a mortal that Christ died for, but just to show you. They invented a little thing called, the kids used to call the "hula-hoop," hula-hoop, or something. And if you ever noticed the vulgarity and things that follow that lot, in the little children. That's not right.


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