<TITLE>34. Par 256-263</TITLE>L-256   Reminds me of Saint Martin, when he was trying to stand for the Gospel, and everything, before he was converted. In the--in the Pre-Nicene, or the Nicaea council, the Nicaea Fathers, in the history. One day, he was going through the gates there. He was from Toras, France. And there was people... An old bum laying there, dying, no clothes. And the people passed by, that could have give him clothes, and they didn't do it. They passed him by and ignored the old fellow. And Saint Martin stood there and looked it. They said he...

L-257 Every soldier had a--had a man to keep his boots shined. And he shined his servant's boots.
And took his coat off, and took a knife and cut it, half, in two, his sword. Wrapped the old bum up in it, said, "We both can live."
He went home and went to bed. Laying there, thinking the old man had cried. Directly, Something woke him up. He looked. Standing in the room, there stood Jesus Christ wrapped in that same old piece of garment that he wrapped the bum in. Said, "Insomuch as you have done unto least of these little ones, you've done it unto Me." That's a life worthy of the Gospel. You know how he sealed his life, too, don't you?

L-258   Look at Polycarp, standing for the Name of Jesus baptism, against the Roman Catholic church. And they burn him to a stake; tore down a bathhouse and burn him. Look at Irenaeus, the rest of them, that suffered for this cause. That's lives worthy.

L-259 Look at what Paul said in the Book of Hebrews, 11th chapter. Said, "They were sawed asunder, pulled apart; wandered about, in sheepskins and goatskins, and was in desert, and destitute and so forth; lives that this world is not worthy of." There you are. That life is worthy of the Gospel. How is mine and yours going to stand in the Day of Judgment, with men like that?

L-260   Look at Paul now. We'll go on down. He stood for the Gospel, let Jesus so flow through him. No matter how, what, regardless of what anybody thought about it. Where, the high priest, why, he went and had his head cut off, for It. He was a worthy representation of the Gospel. Letting... Look at there. Regardless of what people thought, letting the current of Eternal Life flow through him, insomuch that he said, "I would be accursed from Christ, for my brethren."
Now you know what you do when you get Eternal Life. There is your question. There is your answer. You take the intellectual side; or, take This side, if you've really got Eternal Life. That's what happens.

L-261 That's what happened. Paul, ready to be accursed from Christ, to let his people... The blind, ignorant people that wouldn't listen to his Gospel!
I think, a shame on my own self. I was ready to give them up, because they wouldn't listen to me. I feel like repenting. And I have repented. See?

L-262   Notice. Regardless of what others thought, this kind of a life is worthy of the Gospel.
Now I'm closing.

L-263 The rich man, like most of us today, shut out and rejected the Word of Life, and become a church member; and showed a life, that proves in the Bible, was unworthy of the Gospel that he was asked to receive. That right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] How could the Gospel shine through a darkened light like that, denying the power of God?


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