<TITLE>09. Par 82-91</TITLE>L-82 But, all the time, God knew he was doing it. So He had a prophet down there, by the name of Elijah, so He spoke to Elijah and said, "Go up there to a certain road, and stand in that way. Messengers are coming up." You see, you cannot hide nothing from God, see, no matter what you're doing. Now, how little did that fellow know that God was speaking to Elijah way down there in the wilderness somewhere, in a little mud hut somewhere, and could tell him to "Go, stand on the corner of the road up there, and speak to these fellows, and tell them to 'Get back down to him, and tell him, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, he is not coming off of that bed."'"

L-83 And He said, "Ask him, 'Why did you do it? What makes you do it? Is it because that there is no God in Israel? Is it because He doesn't have a prophet? Is that the reason you did it? Why, you know what's happened. You know the Scripture. You've got them in your own palace. The priests are around there. No doubt you've read them since a boy. And why did you do such a silly thing as that?'"

L-84   I wonder, tonight, if Christ would come on the scene, or over the nation today, in drawing this nation to judgment, if that same question wouldn't been asked. Why is it, is it? Why is it we are doing these things? Why are we fussing in the government, whether we should read the Bible in public, and, why, if we are reading all this nonsense? Did not our forefathers set this constitution in order? Did not this nation be born upon the principles of the Bible? Aren't we here for freedom of religion, to act in God the way we feel fit to act, the way that we are convinced is Truth?

L-85   But, you see, we have done something like they did then. We are just letting everything, politics, swallow us up, in the stead of respecting our Faith in our God, and man who has stood for Truth. And we are letting our politics run over that, and voting in such stuff that's polluting this nation, and while we are coming to a judgment. God will rise on the scene, someday, with a mighty prophet, speak in this generation and--and tell people, and they'll see that it's God speaking, but they won't repent. It'll be just like it was then.

L-86 He said, "Is there no God in Israel? Is it because there is no God?" Same as Jeremiah said, "Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there?" Then, they could not answer that. Course, there was. Well, He said, "Then, why, why did you do it? Why is the daughter of my people not healed?"

L-87   Now we wonder that, tonight. Why? Is there no Bible? Is there no God? Is there no difference? If God is going to bring the people to Judgment, He has got to have something to judge them by. There has got to be some standard.

L-88 If He is going to judge them by the Catholic church; then if they judge them by the Roman church, the Greek church is lost, the other Catholic churches are lost. If He judged it by the Greek, the Roman is lost. If He judged it by the Lutheran, the Methodist is lost. If He judged it by the Methodist, the Lutheran is lost. He can't judge it by a church; there is too many different organizations of it.

L-89 But God will judge the world, He said, by Jesus Christ. And Jesus Christ is the Word, and the Word is God. And He will judge them by this Bible, for this is the Word. That is God's standard. We must measure up to what the Bible says.

L-90 And we wonder why we got so much confusion, so many organizations, so much differences, separating brotherhood, and--and everything. It's because there is no Balm in Gilead? Is it because there is no physician there? I wonder if God would ask us that question?

L-91   Now, it wasn't--it wasn't exactly they didn't have a Physician. They did. God was the Physician. And it wasn't because there wasn't a God in Israel. There was a God. And they had a prophet to consult, to find out what these things are. But it was the king's own stubborn will. That's exactly.


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