<TITLE>12. Par 117-127</TITLE>L-117   I don't know, that brother that prophesied, and the brothers, rather, about the tidal wave, that may be so. But I'm telling one thing, I know this, the Bible says that this earth will burn. And Chicago has never had a fire to what it's going to have one day. And God, the just God, cannot--cannot let Chicago escape the wrath of God.

L-118 As a friend once put it, that Jack Moore said, "If God let this generation get by, from spurning the Gospel, and for doing the things that they are doing, and living in the type of sin that they're living in, immorals and so forth, why, He would be obligated to raise up Sodom and Gomorrah and apologize for burning them up."

L-119   So, they've spurned, they've shunned It, and they've looked Christ in the face. It, the movement of Christ, has never been no great big world-wide thing. It's humility. Why, He was in the world in the days of His ministry, perhaps one third of the Jews in Palestine never knowed nothing about Him till He was gone. See? See? And they--they never know it till it's too late.

L-120 But let's think, this morning, that this is a special day that we are presented, as business people, to make an investment in Jesus Christ; to give up, be ready, and just forsake everything that there is, that's dear to this world, that we might find the treasures of Heaven. As Jesus told him, "And come, follow Me, take up your cross."

L-121 Not take up your popularity, where everybody saying, "Certainly, doctor, come right in. It's such a great thing to have you here. Oh, the deacon, you fine..."

L-122 See, it's a cross. And you, they might call you "crazy, heresy." And as Paul, you could testify, "In the way that's called 'heresy,' that's the way I worship the God of our Fathers." See? We've had other men before us, who had to make these decisions.

L-123   And, remember, Saint Paul and the rich young ruler verses one another. Paul was a man with great opportunity before him, also, and was presented with it, but he accepted it. Now you can look at their outcome and place yourself, what your outcome is going to be.

L-124 You can base it upon the Word, the inchangeable... unchangeable, rather, Word of God, the promise of God. God cannot do one thing, and then turn around and do something else about it, and say that He done wrong in the first place. God cannot change. He is God, and God is the Word.

L-125   Now this Word was well identified to be the Son of God. He saw something in Jesus that other men didn't have, but the price was too great.

L-126 And it's too great today, with the Laodicea church. But, remember, they went out of the synagogue because that, put Him out of the synagogue, because they had no room for Him in the synagogue. They are putting Christ out of the organization today, the real living manifestation, thoroughly identified, vindicated Word of God that no man can stand against, proving that Christ is raised from the dead and His Life is living in His people, doing the same thing that He done. It's got to be called "devil, fortune-telling," and everything else, but remember the Word is the same. One word against It is unforgiveable. Never in this world, or the world to come, will it ever be forgiven.

L-127   This is the last church age. It could not be in the other ages. It had to be in this age. Every timepiece, if we just had the time, could voluntarily put in here and prove this. The Word of God is now being fulfilled. And the last word that the... The called-out Church and Abraham is--is in the type, and Sodom. Now remember, He--He expressed so definitely about Sodom. See? Now He said, "As it was in Sodom, in the days of Lot."


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