<TITLE>05. Par 44-56</TITLE>L-44   This "get rich over night." I had a friend once that had his life savings in a bank, drawing a small interest, and someone come by with a shortcut. You know, we hear today of so many, shortcuts the thing. The world is full of it; advertisements, and television, radio, newspapers. And if the American people fall for such as that!

L-45 Here long ago, I was listening at an advertisement of a--a--a woman, or talking on the--on the radio. I was in my car, going somewhere, and they said, "Use these fine dishwashing powders," of some sort, "you don't even have to wash the dishes. You just put them in there, and pour a little bit in and shake it up-and-down; and it's no washing, no rinsing, no drying, no nothing." And it was one of the greatest things that science had ever given us.

L-46 And right back over, about the next commercial, was, "Don't use these new detergents. Look at mother's hands, how pretty they are. They burn your hands up. Be... have pretty hands like mother, and don't use the new detergent."

L-47 And I happened to live in Jeffersonville, at that time, where Colgate Palmolive Peet big factory is, and the same company made both products. See? See? It's a--it's a gimmick. And there is so much of it in the world today!

L-48 And I say this with reverence and respects, and I hope it doesn't sound sacrilegious, but that same thing has got into the church move. God has no shortcuts. You just pay the price. You come and take the way that God provided for us.

L-49   A "get rich over night," you invest it in it, and, the first thing you know, this fellow lost everything he had. It's unsound business to do anything like that. It doesn't show good intelligence or good business thinking, in some unidentified business.

L-50 And then it's not a good business to keep what you got, in your pocket, because you better put it to work. You remember our Lord talking about the talents?

L-51 I won't have time to break this all down, but I hope you understand what I'm--I'm speaking, giving a parallel here, to make the point that I wish to make to you.

L-52   Now we find out that, if you keep your money in your pocket, thieves can take it. And we don't want to do that, because that's not a good policy, to keep your money in your pocket. You can lose it, and you could, somebody could take it from you.

L-53 And don't put it in some foolish investment. But invest it in some good reliable firm that has proven and been thoroughly identified that it'll pay off. Now that's what you people think, you businessmen and women. If it doesn't pay off, then you're afraid of it. But if it's been proven that it does pay off, and it's reliable, then you make your investment there. You can put all you got into it, because it's been proven, thoroughly proven, that it pays off.

L-54   And this young ruler, or young businessman, I'm going to call him. This young businessman of the city had an opportunity to make an investment in one of the greatest identified things in the world. He had an opportunity to take out a--a policy, as we would call it, of Eternal Life. But he wasn't interested in such a policy, because the price of it seemed to take away from the things that he wanted to do. There is a point.

L-55   Now, the young man knew that there was something that he was lacking. Though we (he's) thoroughly understand that he must have had a--a good father, a good mother, and a church experience, that he belonged to the church, because Jesus asked him, "Keep the Commandments. Honor the father and mother. Do not kill, commit adultery," and all these morals that the church teaches. But yet Jesus told him, "One thing yet thou lackest."

L-56 He wasn't, did not ask Jesus, "What can I do that I might join Your church? What that I might do, that I might become a--a member?" But he said, "What can I do to have Eternal Life?" Yet, being a member of a religious body, yet the young man was sensible enough to know that he lacked Eternal Life.


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