<TITLE>04. Par 30-40</TITLE>L-30 I think, the word, Come, Follow Me, that would be the best advice I could give if I was talking to ten thousand kids, or if I was talking to just what I am. It's a command, and the greatest thing that I think that was ever offered anybody, and especially a young person, "Follow Me."

L-31   You're going to follow somebody. Now, you just... You can remember that. You're going to follow somebody. And the way you follow the person, be sure that, who this person is following. See? We...

L-32 Paul one time said, "Be followers of me as I am of Christ." In other words, "Just as I follow Christ, you follow me."

L-33 And now, at this turning point, this--this stage of life where we all come. And many times you've heard me holler "ricky, ricketta," and things. It, it's the age. It's the age that we're living in. It really isn't those people.

L-34   Those people are people like we are. Those kids out here with these hot rods, running up-and-down the street, and carrying on the way they are, smoking cigarettes and drinking liquor, and girls dressed immorally, and things, them is girls and boys like we are. See? They're human. They love. They eat. They drink. They sleep. They breathe. They got to die. They're people just like we are. And yet they have been...

L-35 They been possessed of an evil spirit. They don't know it. Not because of--of the people, but because, sometimes, some leader that they been following have led them in the wrong road.

L-36   Now, you girls and boys know better than that. You know. You been taught better than that. You got better parents, sounder training than to do a thing like that. You know better.

L-37 But they don't, see, because the churches that they go to are modern churches, modernistic. And they--they just live for the day, more popular. And, oh, my! What's... The morals become virtue to them. See? So they, what... As I said one time, in a play that I seen down here, not long ago, of Sodom and Gomorrah, that this evil-possessed woman said to--to Lot, "What you call immoral, I call virtue."

L-38 Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of man." So we're back to that place again.

L-39   Let's look at this fellow, for a few minutes, that we read about. No doubt that this kid was born in a good home, like you kids are. He was brought up with good parents. Cause, it proved it, when Jesus presented to him the commandments of God. He said, "I've kept these since a youth." It showed that he had, he had been. He had been brought up right. He wasn't just a snatch-out. And you know, he--he had been brought up to know what's right, kids like you all are. Probably come up under a God-fearing mother and daddy, to--to--to teach him right, when he was a kid. Well, that's good.

L-40   Maybe, as a little baby, his mother had high ambitions of him being a great man someday. His father was worth money, that could school him and--and to give him an education that he could. He'd come out with a good education and be able to be something in the world. And with the sincerity of this mother and dad, educating this kid, and perhaps come to his graduation time like you are, see, the time when he passed through school and had his education. No doubt that he perhaps was the pride and joy of--of that mother and daddy's life. No doubt, in them days, he had fine horses, like you have automobiles, and a good dad and mother like you all have got, that sees to it, you got good clothes, and--and a car, and can... and just enjoy life, just something like you have today.


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