<TITLE>06. Par 51-63</TITLE>L-51   See, of all you got in the world, yet the soul on the inside of you tells you there is something that you need, that you haven't got. Just by wealth... Or, it don't always have to be wealth. It could be, popular, some pretty girl, she's got her beauty that she can think of. Maybe she's very popular in school. Maybe the boy can get any girl he wants. He feels that he's kind of secured. That's not security. That'll fade just like the flower in the field. See? It'll go. Won't be long. Just a few turns of sun, that's gone, then you've got a soul that has to live Eternally.

L-52   And this young kid must had a nice personality, because he presented himself to the Lord Jesus, knowing he bowed upon his knee. He said, "Good Master, what could I do to have Eternal life?"

L-53 He said, "Why do you call me good," said, "when you know there's only One good, and that's God?" See? What did the young man express in this? That He was God. See? He said, "Thou knowest the commandments. Keep them."
Said, so he said, "What commandments, Master?"

L-54 He said, "The commandments of 'honour thy father and mother,' and so forth."

L-55 He said, "This I've done, from my youth up. See, I've did this."

L-56 He said, "Yet you're lacking one thing. Go, sell what you have, and distribute to the poor, and follow Me."

L-57 What an opportunity! That could have been Peter, James, or John, one of them. See, the kid had been trained and brought up right, and been presented to Christ, to use him. And all the potentials that he had in him, to use, probably educated, young, rich, influence, where he could have presented the Gospel, and yet turned It down. What a--what a rashal thing that was for that young boy! See?

L-58   "Follow me." Now, see, he had to follow someone. Now, he had to either follow the influence of the people he was associated with, the influence of some young lady, some influence of a gang of boys that he was associated with, his colleagues in school, or follow Jesus Christ. In all of his goodness, yet he knew he didn't have Eternal Life.
Kids, that's what you got to think about. See?

L-59 Now look at the boy tonight, what he could have been, and what he is, what he is tonight. He is somewhere. He was a man. He is somewhere. He's waiting the Judgment. He's waiting to face the Judgment at that Day, turning down the same opportunity is presented to you kids, almost under the same circumstance; fine kids, good personality, fine fathers and mothers, what you have, don't even have to work 'less you want to. See?

L-60   But there is something else that goes with that. There is something goes with that. That Word, tonight, never dies. It's still a challenge to every young man, every young woman, "Follow me." See?

L-61 Words don't die. Whenever you speak anything, just remember, whether it's in your car in the secret, whether it's in the pulpit, whether it's down on the street corner with your boyfriend or girlfriend, wherever it is, it never dies. It's--it's got to live forever.

L-62   When I seen that girl that I... other night in the vision, young pretty girl, Hollywood actress, and I seen her dying, reaching, trying to get to help. She died in a heart attack, Miss Monroe. And then that's been two years ago, and I seen her dying. And two days later she did die.

L-63 Then, the other night, I heard that girl's voice. How? The kids had been telling me, "Daddy, you go down that River Of No Return, all the time." Said, "They got a play like that on, tonight." They told me a certain night it would be on, a week or two ahead of time. I thought, "Well, I want to see that, 'cause I've been down that river, two or three times; about five times, I think." Well, I--I wanted to see it.


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