<TITLE>12. Par 103-113</TITLE>L-103   Notice, stripped of power, what must have went through that man's mind? Once that kind of a warrior, and now a little boy has to lead him around. Why? He is blind. He can't see. He has nothing to see with.

L-104 God, have mercy upon us! The church is so denominated and so far away, till the Devil has poked out the eyesight, the spiritual sight that This is the Word of God. Not a creed; It's the Word! And God is duty bound to--to produce everything that He promised in this Bible. They say, "We, we believe..." You haven't got no belief coming, if it's contrary to This. The mind of Christ in you, you believe the things that Christ wrote, 'cause This is Christ, the Word. But look at the condition, look at the parallel, when we see that.

L-105 What must have went through his mind? Let's see what went through his mind.

L-106   We see what went through the war lords' mind, of the fear that they once had just of his name. They was scared to do anything. They just mention Samson, that's all, everybody was gone. But now there he is, standing, a victim under Dagon, the fish-god. A Jew that despised idols, was standing a victim under one (why?) because he had failed God. Samson standing there, no doubt... Let's--let's--let's search his mind for about three or four minutes. He must have thought of all the victories he had. There he stands, what he had done. How the Lord had blessed him, and how that he once was a great man as long as he was in the Kingdom of God, keeping the promise of God!

L-107 See, he had failed, and got rid of the promise. That's the same thing the church has done, got rid of the promises. "Oh, well, that's, we'll write our own little catechism, this, you see." This is It, the Word!

L-108   Now, notice, he had thought of all of his victories. And then this must have went through his mind, and how that he had failed God's people.

L-109 It ought to be a shame, to a minister that will sit and read this Bible then walk out before his people, the world is full of Lots. The Bible said that "the sins of Sodom vexed his righteous soul," but he didn't have the courage to stand up and rebuke that sin. And there is many men today...

L-110 And I say this with reverence, only with--with love, but just to say Truth. We may never meet again.

L-111   There is many men that reads this same Bible that we read; sits in his office, preparing his message, and run upon these Truths of God, and have to by-pass them. He would be afraid to preach against the women cutting their hair. His organization would turn him out. About them wearing immoral clothes and committing spiritual adultery. And about the men that--that takes a sociable drink on Christmas, and--and gets out and has a little clean American fun, tells dirty jokes, still maintains the office as deacon. They know them things are wrong, but they're as it was in the days of Lot. We're back to that sinful place again. See?

L-112   Oh, how Samson must have been reminded, by the Holy Spirit, that how he had failed God's people, and had failed God himself. Now he is a prisoner of the very thing that God raised him up and give him power to destroy.

L-113 And with love and with... I am a member, I am in This with you; not a member of a--an organization, God forbid. But I am a member, by grace, in the Body of Christ. I am your brother. I have no selfish motives, my motive to achieve anything personally. I am only zealous for the Lord God, and I say this with--with all my heart. The very thing that you were called out of, you've gone back into it again. And as the Bible said, "As the sow goes to her wallow, and a dog returns to its vomit!" And if the vomit made the dog sick, in the first place, won't it make him sicker the second time? And if organization and creeds that had got the people so bound up, and God called you out to be a free people, and you turned right back around and done the same thing, it'll, it's a greater sin.


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