<TITLE>15. Par 164-175</TITLE>L-164   What about Judas Iscariot? He's got something to remember, too. Judas has got something he's remembering tonight. Certainly is. And he'll always remember it. Certainly. Why? He sold the Lord Jesus for personal gain.

L-165 I wonder, tonight, if there isn't many doing that same thing today, selling your birthrights for personal gain, when you should be on fire for Christ. When you should be doing something for Him, working for Him, or something, you go join somewhere where you can live any way you want to and still claim to be a Christian. That's what the world is looking for tonight. The world, I said, not the believer.

L-166 The believer is looking for every straight road he can walk in, to get right.

L-167 But the unbeliever is wanting somewhere where he can go and just maintain his profession of a Christian, and then just live anyway he wants to. That's what this nation wanted for a president, and that's what they got. Exactly. That's what the--that's what the church wants, that's what they got. Yes, sir. That's what you get.

L-168   But the believer wants to get everything shaved off of him. "He wants to lay aside every sin, and the weight that so easily beset him; he might run with patience the race that's set before him, looking to the Author and Finisher of our Faith, Jesus Christ." Yeah. Remembering Him, as we lay aside every weight. Women letting their hair grow. Men quit being Ricky, and come on into church and do what's right, and all this other kind of stuff. And pastors with deacons on their board, married three or four times; and all these things, compromising, because they pay heavy on the plate and all; have to knuck down to some organization because they tell you this is It, and the Bible says something different. "Lay aside every weight."
Remember Jesus. He become very unpopular.

L-169   The young Rabbi was One of the greatest Men in the world, in the day when He was healing the sick and doing everything well, making people healed, and giving the sight to the blind, showing the people, and manifesting God through them, by the thought of their own mind. He could speak to them. He was a great Rabbi.

L-170 But one day He set down and begin to tell them the Gospel Truth. He wasn't popular from then on. No, He never. The first thing you know, and all the group walked away. And then the seventy said, "This is a hard saying. Who can understand it?" And they walked away.
Then He stood and asked the disciples, "Will you go also?"

L-171 They said, "Where would we go, Lord? You, alone. We've sold out. We're ready, no matter what it is. We're ready to go." Let's remember Him like that.

L-172 Remember, He was our Example. He done everything, condemned every Pharisee, condemned everything of the world, went through the world without a spot on Him. He was a Lamb examined by God. He said, "This is my beloved Son. I'm well pleased in Him." He lived such a life.

L-173 And then He took all the sin of the world, my sin and your sin, and laid it upon Him. And then even the perspiration coming from His sacred brow, like drops of Blood, spatting on there. Not because that He was guilty, but was my guilt doing that, and your guilt.

L-174 And if He can do that for you and I, how could we stand up under some dogmas and nonsense of the world, and the things of this modern day? We ought to remember our Lord, remember what He paid for this price of salvation. Never be ashamed of it. "Be ready to give any man account for the hope that rests within you." We should do that, brethren.

L-175   We're getting in the last hours now. The sun is setting. Civilization has come from the East. Now it's on the West Coast. It can go no further. The barrier is there, and all the sin of the world is heaping up, and rolling up in shameful waves of Hollywood. It's bounced plumb back into the church. And what a time it is! We ought to remember that, brethren.


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