<TITLE>10. Par 92-100</TITLE>L-92 And that's what's the matter in the nation today. It's the people's own stubborn will. Not because we don't have the same God that crossed the Red Sea, with His people, that fed them forty years in the wilderness. It's not because we don't have the same God that we had in the beginning. It's the people's own stubborn way. They don't want to bow down. They don't want to--to have anything to do with the holiness and purity of living the Bible way of living. They would rather belong to church and put their name on a book, and live like the rest of the world, than to bow down to the promises and the Commandments of Almighty God. That's what's the matter today. That's the reason things are going the way they are, people get away from the Word. You'll never be able to get straightened out till we get back onto the right path.

L-93   They built this building, put that corner down here somewhere, you would never get the building built. You've got to be laid on the foundation. And the foundation is the Bible, doctrine of apostles and prophets, and so forth, of the Bible.

L-94 The king's own stubborn way. He just didn't want to--to send down there. It wasn't very popular.

L-95 God's real true way of living has never been popular. It never will be popular. "For the preaching of the Gospel is foolishness to them that perish." Paul said, "I'm not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, for it's the power of God unto salvation to them that believe."
Now we find out here that the king was stubborn.

L-96   Just something like today, a patient will lay right on a... What if a patient went to a doctor and laid down on his steps, and he had some kind of a--a fever that was going to kill him? And the doctor come to the door, and said, "Sir, I've got the medicine in here."
He say, "Ah, I just ain't."
"Come on in, I'll give you the injection, the inoculation."
"I don't want your medicine."

L-97 And say now, "Sir, I--I can help you if you'll just come on in."
"Well, I'm not coming in."

L-98 And the man laid there on the doctor's steps and died; die on the doctor's steps because he won't accept the inoculation for typhoid fever or ever what it is, that he had. He won't accept the inoculation for it, and the man dies right on the doctor's doorstep. Now, the man... You can't blame the doctor, if he has the--the medicine that will--that will cure the disease, and the doctor is willing to give it, and it's been provided. And the man set, come as close as the doctor's doorstep, and set down there and die, you can't blame the doctor. You can't blame the medicine. It's the man that'd be to blame; dying on the doctor's doorstep, with a disease that there is a medicine to be cured, can cure it, on the inside. Well, that's just a parable.

L-99   But, you know, God has the medicine inside of His Kingdom, that will cure every sin disease there is in the world, and the people sit right on the church doorsteps. Not only that, but they sit right in the pew, and die, and are lost and go to Hell, because they refuse to accept the Doctor's medicine. Amen. That's right. They absolutely refuse to take the Doctor's medicine, therefore they die with the fevers.

L-100 And the people sit in the church and hear the Messages of God, and believe them, and won't accept It. They wouldn't say, "Well, now I don't believe that's right." Some of them will come, say and agree with It, say, "I believe It's right," but you won't do it. See, you'll die. Dying in the pews of the church, because they won't accept the remedy. They won't. See, what it does, it takes a little bit of the--the popularity out of the people. It kind of beats them up a little bit.


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