<TITLE>08. Par 75-83</TITLE>L-75   You can't take the Gospel over into the world. We got to get the world over here. Hollywood reaches after shiny things, a monkey does the same thing. Hollywood shines, but the Gospel glows. There is quite a difference between shining and glowing. We're trying to put on big things, and be something big. That's no way to get the outsider. Live the Life, and let Christ live in you, that makes him hunger and thirst to be like you. You become salty, he'll get thirsty. The only way you can be salty is let the Life of Christ be in you, for He is that. Salt only saves as it contacts.

L-76   Now we find, this young man knew that this Man was more than just an ordinary man. He knew He must be God, because the Life of God was reflecting through Him; and He was thoroughly vindicated by the Word, that He was God.

L-77 Now I want to speak just a moment to my minister brethren, also. We're a congregation here of both ministers and businessmen. I'm just a little afraid that our great system of our churches today has come to that same place, for the Bible claims that we will come, in the last days, to the Laodicea Church Age, "which is 'rich, increased in goods, has need of nothing.' And knowest thou not that thou art miserable, poor, wretched, blind, and don't know it." There is the sad part, "Don't know it! Blinded!"

L-78   Why wouldn't those Pharisees, the scholars of the seminaries know Jesus Christ, when He was thoroughly identified by the Bible, when He proved that He was the Prophet that Moses said would be raised up? And they hadn't had prophets for hundreds of years. And here He stood amongst them, with the very Word of God, but the Bible said that they were "blind Pharisees." And the Bible tells us, that, "They must be blind." What a pitiful thing!

L-79 And the same Bible that said that they would be blinded, said, "The Laodicea Church Age would be blinded, miserable, wretched, poor, naked, and blind, and don't know it."

L-80 If we could find a man on the street, or a person that was in that condition, it would be a pitiful thing; if you could go to him now, and talk to he or she. And if you looked at the dressing of some of our modern women, you'll find out they're just about that way in the natural. But if you go to them and tell them that they're wrong, and if they would listen, understand that they are naked, they would try to help themselves. But, "Naked, and don't know it."

L-81   Now in this day, God has sent back the Holy Spirit, which, if Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever, then He is still the same Messiah. And the Life of Christ is in His Church, vindicating His Word. That's how God was in the earth, in the form of Jesus Christ, being the Word, to make the Word live. And the Holy Spirit is today in flesh, making the Word of God live to every promise and every wonder. And everything that He promised, it's there.

L-82 And the churches has been given the opportunity to receive this policy of Eternal Life, but they made the rashel mistake that the rich young ruler made. They have went off to the councils, uniting together, all coming under a form of ecclesiastical head which is predicted by the Bible. We see that in our organizational systems. And they're in Rome, and so forth, now. Now we have no axes to grind, no punches to pull, just tell the Truth. That's the way it's written. God always vindicates His Truth. And the church in that kind of a condition, is offered to take the Policy.

L-83   And upon the same basis, that many of you businessmen here this morning, belonging to those churches. I don't say, "Leave it." No, sir. You go there and be a light, but take Light with you. See? Notice.


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