<TITLE>18. Par 222-232</TITLE>L-222   Look how much different His Word is. That Word has been from old. The New and Old Testament coincides with one another, like a dovetail piece of board coming together. There is nothing out of order. Many men wrote that Book, that sixty-six books of the Bible. They wrote it in a space of hundreds and hundreds of years apart, one not knowing the other. And what happened? You can't make one Word contradict the other one. Right. That's the reason.

L-223 I've heard people say, "The Bible contradicts Itself." I'll preach across this United States for a year, straight, and let the ministers take up offerings and give them every bit to you, if you will show me where God's Word contradicts Itself. Right. I've made that offer for years. Nobody has took it up yet. No. Because, It does not contradict It. It's your own little peanut brain, that you're--you're trying to make It say something that It doesn't say. Right. No. God's Word doesn't contradict Itself. He is, it's...

L-224   Now, denominations will contradict one another. They're like these other stars, you see. They'll float around, every time, like the world. They turn in the world, and around the world. And the world turn and gets them all out of whack.

L-225 But it never turns away from God's North Star, His Word, where the compass points to It. It's always the same, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." That's the Absolute. That's the place.

L-226 You can look at this here. Today it's here, and tomorrow it believes something else. Next day, it's over, somewhere else. That's the way. It's wishy-washy, in and out, out and out, and in and in, and so forth.

L-227 But, you put your heart right on God's Word. "And heavens and earth will pass away, but That never shall pass away." That's the Absolute. That's the solid Foundation. That's--that's my Compass, my Sail. That's my Guide. That's my Light, is upon that Absolute of God's Word. I'm tied there, Eternally, with Him. Amen. Others can do what they want to; that's up to them. But, for me, it's this Absolute. I want that for my Absolute. Might shift and turn, and so forth, but not His Word. It'll always remain the same. He ever remains true to His Word. Now make Him your Absolute.

L-228   In the times of my trouble back there, when I lost my family, and my life almost was taken from me. My little girl died, me praying for her, and after I had been on the streets, day and night, preaching and praying, and trying to do what was right. You've heard my life story. Many of you read it. And, my, it come to a place, till I--I see my wife die, right... and me holding her hand. I... My little baby took sick, a few hours after that. And I got down there and prayed, with all was in me. Looked like a black sheet let down, and refused to answer my prayer.

L-229 Then Satan come to me and said, "You see, you're only about twenty years old. And here, you, what all you've done! And, you, you've neglected yourself. And you've done all these things. You--you forfeit all your young life, about, when you should have been out having a big time like the rest of the young folks. And here you stood on the street corner, crying and praying. You went all night at a time, in the hospitals, hour after hour. And when it comes to your own blood and flesh, He refuses to hear you." That was one time I was tempted.

L-230 But I happened to remember back. "I got an Absolute. Though He slay me, yet I'll trust Him. I don't care what comes or goes."

L-231   The state senator of Indiana, Sam Isler, he come, too. He's come at the tabernacle. He's deceased now, about two years. Fine man. And he used to... He was coming down the road.

L-232 I was going up, to pray, up at the grave where wife and baby were laying. It was right after the '37 flood. I had on a pair of boots, and I was walking up the road, crying.


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