<TITLE>07. Par 59-69</TITLE>L-59   Therefore, together tonight, we can stand, not as one denomination, maybe many of us together. But we can't stand here to represent one denomination, we have to stand here in this fellowship under the Blood of Jesus Christ. We can all be brethren, sisters. God makes a way for man, and then man refuses to walk in that way, then God has got a right to ask, "Why didn't you do it?" And that's what He did then, and that's what He does now, and that's why He will, what He will ask at the Judgment. They've asked, "Why?"

L-60   Now, our Scripture reading started off, just immediately after the death of Ahab, a bad king, a borderline believer, a man who knowed what was right to do, and yet did not have the courage to step out and do what he knowed was right to do.

L-61 I just think, if this--if this world isn't contaminated today with Ahabs, this Christendom that we live in, it's contaminated with Ahabs, with man who really know that it's right to give your life and be... to God, and be filled with the Spirit, and to follow the teachings of this Bible, and yet without the courage to stand and do it. Reminds me again of another situation like that in Sodom.

L-62   The Bible said, "The sins of Sodom, vexed the righteous soul of Lot, daily." And how that the man's soul was righteous, and he looked out upon the sins of the land, and he knowed that what was wrong, that they were doing wrong, and yet without the courage to stand for his conviction.

L-63 No wonder the whole world has become a Sodom and Gomorrah, and how that the Lots today, across the nation and around the world, standing in churches, who is convinced that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and that His power is just as real today as it ever was, without the courage to stand in the pulpit and to denounce sin, because of some barrier that would excommunicate them from a fellowship that they had joined into. Still comes back to the Blood of Jesus Christ, the only remedy.
"Why? Why?"

L-64   Ahaziah was--was the son of Ahab, had been brought up in the kind of a home that--that was a--a lukewarm home. It wasn't altogether Christian. His mother was a heathen. And his father had married out of fellowship, married a woman that was not a believer.

L-65 And that always makes a bad home for any kid to be raised in, that when unbelief and faith tries to mix together.

L-66 And, now, if the father would have been a real strong man in his faith, the child might have had a better opportunity, but he--he didn't. He didn't have. He knew that there was God. He knew that there was a Jehovah. And then he... his mother's gods, and so forth. He was all confused. Then after the death of his father, this boy in this condition, kind of a mixed up, one way and another.

L-67 And if that ain't a picture of the lands today! One in the family is this a way, and one another, and one going this way and one going that way. No wonder we are producing so much juvenile delinquency, and all other kinds of stuff, under the name of Christianity. It's because there is no unity. There is no real call out, and stand for God.

L-68   Now we find that, this fellow falling heir to his father's throne. One day, up in the top of his balcony somewhere, walking around, he--he fell through the--the lattice. Might have been over intoxicated and fell through the lattice, down probably on the bottom floor, struck a bench or something, and broke a few ribs or bruised him up. And the sickness must have started an infection somewhere, or the bruise, and caused him to have fever. And he was pretty sick.

L-69 Course, them days, they didn't have the remedies that they have now. Perhaps the doctors came and done what they could for the fellow, but they didn't have the sufficiency. Then he knowed his only thing that he could do would be to go to a higher power than what the doctors could produce in their terminology of medicine. And he thought he would go then; and he sent to his mother.


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