<TITLE>11. Par 132-144</TITLE>L-132   We have to have an absolute at a ball game. Did you know that? A ball game can't operate right without an absolute, and that's the umpire. Now, sometime we--we don't like his decisions, but it's--it's--it's absolute. He's the absolute, anyhow. If... No matter, if we want to say, and others say, that--that it was a strike, or it was a ball; and he says it's a strike, that's what it is. Don't argue with him. He's there. He's the absolute in that ball game. Because, if he said, "Strike," you can fuss, you can throw your hat out there, and protest it, but it's a strike, anyhow. Amen. Now let's think just a minute. What if there was no umpire in the game? What kind of a fuss would it be? It would all be chaos. You--you couldn't play the game without having an absolute in it. Games has got to have an absolute.

L-133 And if games has to have an absolute, what about life? It has to have a resting place. And every mortal here, this afternoon, has got your absolute somewhere, your ultimate, that's the last word.

L-134 Notice, there would be fusses and everything at this ball game. It'd all end up in chaos.

L-135   You know, a red light is an absolute to traffic. But what if the red light don't work? What if the red light is out when you get there? One say, "I--I--I got here first." The other one say, "I'm in a hurry to go to work." Talk about a traffic jam!

L-136 That's about what's got the matter with our churches and things. It's such a jam! The red light must be out, somewhere.

L-137 Oh, fusses and argue, why, you'd never get it over. There must be a something there, to say, "You go, and you wait," and so forth, or we'd be all messed up.

L-138 Well, now, in our beliefs, in our six hundred and something different denominations. Yeah. I think it's nine hundred now, of--of different organizations. There's got to be an absolute somewhere. If the Catholic is right, the Protestant is wrong. If the Methodist is right, the Baptist is wrong. If the Pentecost is right, then the rest of them is wrong. And--and there has got to be something somewhere. And how you going to base it, if you don't take God's Absolute? That's Christ.

L-139   And Jesus said, in John 14:12, "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also." It's an absolute fact that Christ promised that. That's His Word. We've got to believe that. Said, "He..."

L-140 In Saint John, the 5th chapter, the 24th verse, "He that heareth My Words, My Words, and believeth on Him that sent Me has everlasting Life, and shall not come into the Judgment, but has passed from death unto Life." That's absolute. That's it. Now, not him that maketh-believe, but, "He that believeth." See?

L-141 Now, we've got to have an absolute, and He is that Absolute. And He and His Word are the same. We can't separate them. Yes.

L-142   If the red light was out, we'd have a traffic jam, oh, my, a bad one, too. There must be an absolute.

L-143 And so, you know, it's got so today, though, the trouble of it is, is what's got in this great big traffic jam we've got into. It's kind of a rude way to express it, but yet you know what I'm trying to say.

L-144 Notice. The reason we've got into there is because that every one of us make our own absolute. See? We have our own absolute. Each church has its absolute. Each group has its own absolute. And they say, each one of them, said, "We are the Truth, the way. We got It all. You ain't got nothing to do with It. You're in a minority. We, we're the greatest group." And people do that. That's... You oughtn't to do that.


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