<TITLE>08. Par 98-110</TITLE>L-98 It's got to have deep enough water to float it, or the waves will turn it over. And--and a ship with the anchor, that great, mighty tons of--of metal that it drops out, of steel. And it goes down, down, until it hits the top of the bed of the ocean, somewhere in a top of a mountain. And that great anchor pulls, as the waves rock the ship, till it strikes its great big spears into a rock. And, there, the ship has an absolute. It's anchored. Waves might toss it about, but, still, that ship can stand just perfectly still, where it's anchored, because it's an absolute to it.

L-99   And if Christ is your Absolute, you are tied to Him in that manner, no matter what anybody says, how hard the persecution gets, how bad the storm seems to be, how--how it looks impossible for it to happen. If something has happened in you, that, Christ becomes your Absolute, or any promise in the Bible becomes your absolute. If you are sick, and--and you are praying for healing, and something becomes to that, strikes that promise in the Bible, "I've got it," there is nothing going to wave you from It.

L-100   You remember the story a few minutes ago, of the little lady? That vision was her absolute. She knowed it had never failed, so it was her absolute. If she could get God to speak back and say "It's over," no matter what the doctor said, it was an absolute. It was absolutely anchored down.

L-101 And a man or a woman, just in philosophy or church joining, or something like that, you're not anchored yet. You, you would take your letter from one church to the other, from one place to another. But if you just take the real Absolute, Christ, anchor yourself in That. Don't make any difference what comes or goes, you're still anchored.

L-102   And what the Christian needs today, in this atomic age, and this time of uncertainty, you need something besides just an experience of joining church. You need an anchor, an absolute, that you know. Because, churches will fail, and people will fail. But Christ cannot fail. He, He's the--He's the Absolute to the believer. And if Christ is your Absolute, you're tied to Him. And if He is your Absolute, and you're tied to Him, then you're tied to the Word.

L-103 Now, now, This tells whether we got the right absolute or not. See?

L-104 If you can read in that Scripture, something that Christ has ordained or commissioned us to do; and, because of some twisting around, if someone would tell you That was for the disciples or someone else; and then you don't hold onto That, then Christ is not your Absolute. That person who led you out of the Way is your absolute.

L-105 But if that Word, Christ, still holds, see, then He's your Absolute. We mustn't let anything stir us out of the way of the Word. See?

L-106   Some of them, today, it's going to get more than ever, as the days go by, that we're going to see people with this, as Jesus said, "Form of godliness." And just a--a form it's coming into. We've had it in the Methodists and Baptists, and so forth, for years, and now it's creeped over into the Pentecostals. And little...

L-107 When God gave a man the Holy Spirit, He set him with his face towards Calvary, and the Word before him.

L-108 Now, little roots will rise up from off that highway, come in and wrap around and around that tree, and you think it's very innocent. But, the first thing you know, it's got such a hold on you until it pulls you the wrong way, makes you lean the wrong way.

L-109 And so has philosophies and things entered among us, until it's begin to pull us towards the world. You take the sharp two-edged Sword of God and cut free from everything, and stay right on that Word, 'cause That is the Ultimate. That's the Absolute, to every believer.

L-110   And if a man or woman is filled with the Holy Spirit, your heart within you will punctuate every promise of God with an "amen." That's right.


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