<TITLE>12. Par 145-156</TITLE>L-145   Until, it's almost like it was, the days of Judges, where, "every man does in his own sight what's right." See? He thinks, in his own sight, he does. But, they, you can't do that. There's too many different ways. See? And there's really only one Way, and Christ is that Way. And Christ and His Word is the same thing. Now, see, you got to have Something that we can come to and say, "This is It," and It can be proven that It's, that's what It is, see, Him.

L-146 In the days of the judges, the reason every man done in his own sight what he thought was right, is because, in them days, "The Word of God was precious. They didn't have It." And, the prophets, there was none. There was no prophets in them days, to stand to the Word and direct Israel. So, the Word wasn't coming, so every man did what was right in his own sight.

L-147   And that's about where we've gotten to again today, brethren. See? Every man in his own sight, say, "Well, now, if I want to take the golden rule! If I want to do this, or some religion! I--I--I believe, my religion, is do so-and-so." And you--you find that. Everybody finds that.

L-148 They think, "Well, I--I go to Sunday school on Sunday morning. I'm as good as anybody else." Well, that, that's good. You could still go, go to Sunday school and--and be good, that's all right. But if you haven't got something a little more than going to Sunday school!

L-149 Someone said, "I keep the ten commandments." One keeps the sabbath day. The other one does something else. And, till, we just got a place till everybody thinks, well, they just do what they think is right. But that don't make it right. Not by a long ways, it doesn't. We're going to find that out in a few minutes, see, that it doesn't make it right.
God's got a way.

L-150 The Bible said, "There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is the ways of death." And there is nobody wants to die. That's separation. We don't want to separate from God. And we don't want...

L-151 We want to live. Life is the greatest treasure that--that man can have. And now we've got to find what is Life. And He said, "My Word is Life." That's the Life that you should have, the Word living in you.

L-152   Now watch. I seen this in my early conversion, when I was just a boy. I seen that. And I knew that I needed an absolute. So I read the Word of God, and I seen that this Word was Christ. And I--I wanted That for my Absolute. So I took Him at His Word. And I heard Him say, in There, "If ye abide in Me, and My Words abide in you, you can ask what you will and it will be given unto you." Now, what a promise!

L-153 Now, where are we today, brethren? Where are we? "If ye abide in Me, and My Words in you, then you can ask what you will and it'll be done for you." Now, That, that's Christ's Own Word. But, what? The Word has to abide in you. "If ye abide in Me, in Christ, and My Word in you." Then, how do we get into Christ? By baptism of the Holy Spirit. Then, that's one part. But, then, "If ye abide in Me, and then My Words abide in you, then you can ask what you will." But you have to have both, Christ and Word. And you really can't have One without the Other, that's right, because It's the Self-same thing.

L-154 You can't have the Father without having the Son. You can't have the Son without having the Holy Ghost. It's the Self-same Spirit.

L-155 So, then, you see, you--you can't--you can't do it any other way than to take God's provided Absolute for our lives. Now I'm tied to Him, by His Word. He is my Absolute. And I've found that it's great and precious to--to live by Him.

L-156   Now, many churches... Just let me talk of an absolute. To the Catholic church, the pope is their absolute. And no matter what comes, what goes, what somebody else says, what the Bible says, that don't mean a thing.


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