<TITLE>05. Par 42-50</TITLE>L-42 What a hope it gives us, that God has not left us without a true witness in the days of confusion that we live in today! Yet, we are certainly a privileged people, if we'll just look to the true witness we have, the Word, see, because that's God's full revelation of Jesus Christ. Nothing can be added to It or taken from It, because It is the revelation of Jesus Christ.

L-43 God has never left His people without a true witness. God is going to judge the world by Jesus Christ. And if Jesus Christ is the Word, then God judges the church, or the world, by the Word, for He is the Word. There is a Judgment coming. The sinner knows it.

L-44   Many people, when you speak of Church, they have a funny idea. The world, when they pass by the Church, I mean, the Body of Christ gathered together, they think of our women with some great, long stringy hair, with black dresses and everything. And they think of the men with long fingers, dressed in black clothes, and always condemning them. To a good sense of the word, that's true, because, "The Church is a peculiar people, a called-out people."

L-45 And the reason it looks that way to that man who wants to judge the Church in that condition, is because the Church is always pointing a condemning finger to everything that he thinks is good. And if he's a sinner, he thinks sin is good, the pleasures of life, such as living in the world. And when the Church stands up and condemns that thing, It looks like a hideous animal to him. But if he only knows, it's God's only way of bringing to salvation, that's right, expressing the Word of God by the lips of His servants.

L-46   Now, God could have chose to preach the Gospel by the sun, by the moon, by the stars, by the wind, or by nature. But He chose men to preach the Gospel, and that's where the Voice of God will come from. And you can judge the voice according to the word it expresses, then you can see what kind of a voice that you're listening to. If it's contrary to the Word, don't listen to it. But if it is the Word, then God is duty bound to back that Word up and vindicate It and make It Truth, because He promised to do it. So we're living in a great day, these Words of Christ expressed.

L-47   When He came into the world, He was the Word, Himself. He didn't have to write no books. He never wrote a book. Why? He was the Word. He didn't have to write about anything, because He was what the others had wrote about. He was the Word. Therefore, He didn't write anything with His Own hand. He was the Word, Itself. And He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, so He still remains the Word.

L-48 He said to the Jews, one day, He said, "Who can accuse Me of sin?" Now, sin is "unbelief." "Who can point their finger to Me and say that I haven't fulfilled every Word that was written of Me?"

L-49   Would not it be a glorious thing this morning, my brethren and sisters, if the Church of the living God could stand and say, "Who can accuse me of sin? Every gift that God promised in the Bible, and everything He promised would be done, it's operating right among us today"? Isn't that a wonderful thing? Who can? Then we... The denominational thoughts would move plumb out of existence when we can see God speaking for Himself.

L-50 So many people are looking for different... No one wants to die. No one wants to be lost. Everyone wants to be in the Presence of God. I do, you do, everybody does. But we're not willing to come the way that God has provided for us to come. See? That's what makes it so much different.


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