<TITLE>23. Par 217-228</TITLE>L-217   What if I brought Him to a trial right now before you? Let's just try it a minute, and God forgive me for taking sides against Him; but just a minute, to show you something.

L-218 What if you say, "Well, I, glory to God, I spoke in tongues! Hallelujah! I know. I, yeah, I--I got It. Bless God. Yeah!" Uh-huh, you did?

L-219 Remember them people of Israel. The Bible said, after He called the people out, and saved them out of Egypt, He destroyed them because they didn't follow the Message. See? They eat manna out of Heaven. They eat manna that God rained on the earth for them to eat, and stood in the presence of the messenger, and seen the Pillar of Fire, and heard the Voice of God, and seen it confirmed. And then, because they wanted to believe Korah, "There can be more holy men. There can be this, that, or the other. We got to be holy, too. We got to do all this. All the people is holy."
God said, "Separate yourself from them. Get away from there."

L-220 Moses said, "All is on the Lord's side, come with me." That's right. See? And He just opened up the earth and swallowed them up. See?

L-221   They were good people, too. Sure, they were. They were fine people. Yes, sir, but that didn't do it. "Not all that saith, 'Lord, Lord,' but the one that doeth the will of My Father." "Not he that starts; it's he that finishes." That, there's no short cuts; you're disqualified at the end of the race. No short cuts. You must come just the way the Scripture said.

L-222 If It says, "Repent, and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost," there is no short cut, shaking hand, joining church or denomination. You come that Way! Except you die to yourself, and be born of the Spirit of God, you're--you're--you're lost. That's all. There is no short cuts.

L-223 You say, "Well, I belong to church." I know. That's good. "Well, my mother..." I don't doubt that, but this is you I'm talking to. See? You've got to come that Way, because there's no short cuts; you're disqualified at the Judgment. You come the one Way.

L-224 There is only one Way, and Christ is that Way. And Christ is the Word that lives in you, that verifies everything that He promised in its season. See? Did you get that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] All right. Notice now.

L-225   Some say, "These people are good." Sure. I don't say they're not good people. I don't say Saint Cecilia and all them wasn't good women; so was my mother, but I sure don't pray to her. Certainly not. Certainly, I've seen lots of good people, but they're not goddesses. They're women, men. "There's only one Mediator between God and man."

L-226 Then why, why would a man, a Pentecostal, world man... that circular letter that Brother duPlessis, our precious brother, has got circulate. Maybe some of you has got it. Set... Yeah, you got it. In the Ecumenical Council, by the side of the pope, and said, "It was very spiritual." That's discernment of spirit, isn't it? "Oh, the Spirit of the Lord was there, very spiritual." Yeah. There you are.

L-227   Why? Because it's a opportunity to unite the Protestants and that together, which we have fought for for years, and the Bible has stood for and told us that would come. And our... one of our greatest leaders comes right in, said, "That's right. That's what we do," and the whole Protestant church is falling for it.

L-228 And just exactly, if you'll look up there, THUS SAITH THE LORD. First, the Word said it. Then the Spirit of the Lord said, in 1933, that told all these other things about the nations going to war, and how the machines would be, and everything like that, said that's exactly what would happen at the end. And here it is. It's never failed. And here we see it shaping up.


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