<TITLE>09. Par 83-91</TITLE>L-83   And now, today, we are trying to educate people to that, to the scientific approach to God, and you can't do that. God is known not by science, but by faith we know God.

L-84 And I'd say this, that--that a man can set down and look at a bunch of flowers, a bouquet, and study that thirty minutes, sincerely with all of his heart, and know more about God than he did if he know, had all the degrees that a Bible school could give him, for God reveals Himself in the flower. We see it die and rise again, resurrection. We see two or three different colors in the same specie of flower. Where did that coloring come from? Explain it to me. How did it get there? Where does it go, and how does it get back again? How does that seed have to die, and rot, and come back again? God, showing Himself in simplicity, then hiding Himself again in death, to show Himself again in resurrection. See? It's just...

L-85 You don't have to know a whole lot. The only thing you have to know is to have faith in what you're looking at, what you're believing. See? Believe. One hour would really prove it, would teach you more about God than all the degrees that you could have.

L-86   God is so great, He can make Hisself simple. Now, that's what makes God great, to me, is how He can make Hisself simple. And that, for doing, Himself, He hides Himself from the smart and wise. Now just think of that. He hides Himself from the smart people and reveals Himself to the humble people. The Bible said, in Isaiah 35, "Even, though, a fool should not err in the way, It's so simple." And as you try to figure It out, and study It out, you just figure away from God. Every time you do that, you just get yourself further and further away. Quit trying to figure It out. Just believe what He said. That's all there is to It, just believe It. And then hides Himself from the wise, and shows Himself to the simple. Man can't be that big.

L-87   A man, as soon as he gets hisself a degree of some sort, he knows more than the next fellow. You can't tell him nothing. The churches, today, like to brag on their pastor, because he's a student of certain-certain seminary. He's got a--a B.A., he's got a D.D., L.D. Well, that don't mean one thing. That don't. He might have a B.A., and a D.D., and a double L.,D., and not even know split peas from coffee. That--that doesn't mean... Excuse that remark. This is no place for jokes, you see. I--I don't mean that. No, sir. You forgive me. I mean this, that that don't have one thing to do with It.

L-88 You know God by faith, and that alone. That was proved when Jesus come to the earth, and those Pharisees and so forth, the highest of degrees, smartest, most holy living men that we had. Even one flaw against them, they'd be stoned without mercy. And Jesus said, "You are of your father, the Devil; his works you'll do." Who could point a finger at them and say?

L-89   We call, "sin," committing adultery, telling a lie, smoking cigarettes, chewing tobacco. The... That's not sin. That has nothing to do with sin. That's the attributes of unbelief. There's only one sin, that's unbelief. "He that believeth not is condemned already." When a man will deny That, That, the Word of God, that's the sin right there.

L-90 Jesus said, when He was on earth, "Who can condemn Me of sin? Who can show Me that I didn't fulfill everything that was prophesied of Me? When I come, I was supposed to do certain-certain things. Who can prove that I didn't do just exactly what the Scripture says I do? Search the Scripture, for in Them you think you have Eternal Life, and They are They that testify of Me." See? "Who can condemn Me of sin?"

L-91   Now, those people there, oh, they had to wash their pots and kettles, and wash before eating, and all these regular traditions they had to go through. But Jesus condemned them all, and set them aside, and told them they were devils. Could you think of such a thing?


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