<TITLE>06. Par 52-63</TITLE>L-52 So, them Pharaohs. I was in Egypt not long ago, and I think they had to dig twenty feet down in the ground, to find the--the place where Pharaoh was seated as a king of the earth.

L-53 And great Herods, and so forth, passing down along the line, we see where their kingdoms has fallen and gone on.

L-54 But there is one Kingdom that's above all kingdoms. It's so high into the heavens till it'll never pass away. And There sets a King, that, when He makes His decision on anything, and we believe that decision, that is an absolute. It's going to be that way regardless of what anyone else says about it. It's always.

L-55   Now, our Supreme Court. Our Supreme Court, it--it is an absolute, the end of all the trials. Now, we have to have it. Sometime we might not agree with its decision. Like, they didn't agree with Hitler's, and so forth. But yet we've got to have this absolute. And the absolute of the nation and trials is the Supreme Court. Our local courts can try anything and pronounce this, but the Supreme Court rules over it all. We must have it. As a nation, we must have its decision, because a nation is tied to this absolute of the Supreme Court. All right.
Everything must have an absolute.

L-56   Did you know a common ball game has to have an absolute? Yeah. What is the absolute of a ball game? An umpire. What if there is no umpire, see, an umpire? No matter where you're standing, what position you look at and you say, "It was a ball," and he said, "It was a strike," well, that's what it was, it was a strike. Why? Because, his word, no matter what the bleachers said, what somebody else said. It's a strike because he called it a strike, and he's the umpire. Now, what if there was no umpire? There would be such a fuss, and everything in chaos, till you couldn't have the ball game. Therefore, you've got to have a absolute, to have a ball game. It must be that way.

L-57   Now, there must be an absolute, in a traffic light. A traffic light is an absolute, rather, to traffic. What if there was no traffic light? Or what if the traffic light was out, and you run down the street? And one fellow was coming this way, and he said, "Now, I was here first. I've got to get through there." And said, "I'm late for work." Talk about a traffic jam, you would really have it. But, see, the traffic light settles. It's the absolute. If the light is green, go. If it's red, stop. If there is no such a thing as a--a traffic light, then we'd have traffic jams.

L-58   And that's what's the matter in the Christian faith today. We got too many traffic jams, everybody making their own absolute.

L-59 When, we got one Absolute, and that's the Word of the living God. That settles it forever, no matter what anyone else says.

L-60 It's almost gotten to a place like it was in the days of Judges, everybody has their own absolute. But it all fails, like the Pharaohs and so forth.

L-61 But God's absolute is His Word. He gives It, "And heavens and earth will pass away, but It shall never pass away." I like that.

L-62 Now, we haven't got much time, so just us look for a few moments to a few people that did come into crisis, and of times where death was at hand, like we are standing tonight, and they took an absolute. Let's interview some of them.

L-63   Let's go back to an old story that's familiar to all of us, in the days when sin had heaped into the world till God got sick and tired of it, and the world was going to be destroyed. And God gave Noah an absolute, that was His Word. And, no matter, that absolute was of the saving of the people. Noah knew that the world was going to die. And God gave him the absolute, and that was His Word, now, to save His people from death. Now, what was the absolute, to save people from death in Noah's time? Was the Word of God. That was the absolute, no matter what anybody else said.


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