<TITLE>10. Par 75-88</TITLE>L-75   Like a whole lot like our denominations of today, our denominations are looking for a superman. Our nation is looking for a superman. Russia is looking for a superman. The eastern world is looking for one. The U.N. is looking for one. The churches are looking for one. But what kind of a one are they looking for?

L-76 Russia is looking for a messiah that's anointed with--with brains that he knows how to conquer outer space for them, beat everybody to the moon. They want to conquer the world. That's just...

L-77   But, you see, when they ask these things, and ask for this, they don't ask as Jesus said. We try to make God like a--like an errand boy, "Lord, You do this for me! And You do this for me! And You go do that," tell Him what to do.

L-78 Jesus said, "When you pray, pray like this manner, 'Our Father Who Art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thine will be done.'" Who, find where we do that? We're always wanting God to run errands for us, or do something for us. But when we're willing to say, "Thy will be done," commit ourselves to Him, commit our ways to Him. All that we are, commit it to Him. That's when God will move, when you're willing to let Him work on you, not you work on Him.

L-79 Let Him tell you, not you tell Him and twist it around. "Come to our system, O Lord God, make all of us Methodist, all of us Pentecostal, rule over the rest of them. We want a genius, we Pentecostal people, we Methodist and Baptist." We got seminaries, building great big ones, saying, "The--the end of time is at hand, the Coming of the Lord," building millions of dollars worth of seminaries, and so forth. Trying to what? Get us a messiah. That's right.

L-80 Let the Lord raise up something out somewhere, every denomination gets them one of the same kind. That's exactly. Find out. Watch when Divine healing struck, how many Divine healers? Every one had to be a Divine healer.

L-81 There was one Moses in the days of that come-out. There was one Elijah, one Elisha, one Isaiah, so forth.

L-82   Now we find out that the world wants their own messiah. Russia want theirs, and United States wants theirs, the church world wants theirs. Each one wants their own messiah, but they want it in the way that--that they can control it. They want to have control over this messiah. Oh, sure. Yeah, they, if they could have. If God would send it in their own taste, they certainly would accept it. But you see, then, God knew their needs. He, He's not promised to send us our wants and what we ask for, but our needs.

L-83 They wanted a general; they got a Baby. See, that's what they needed. They needed a baby (what?) to humiliate them, to humble them.

L-84   That's what the self-styled church needs today, humble itself back again. Got to a place, there is no confession and there is no love among the people. It seems like it's dying daily. Church is cooling off. Everywhere, you find the revival is over, and you find a cooling off. We need a humiliating. And we...

L-85 They asked for a general; and got a Lamb. Why? That's, God knew what they needed. That's what they needed. They needed a Saviour. They thought they was saved, but God knew they wasn't.

L-86 And that's what the world needs today, again, is a Saviour, a Saviour of this condition, something that can hold it together. Not an educated regime, some kind of a mechanical system, or some kind of an educational system. What we need is the Power of the Lord Jesus Christ, and saving grace, back in the church again, when men, women, boys, and girls, can be saved.

L-87 Have we waited too long? Is there many out that will never come in? Has the last name been redeemed? Is that what's the matter today? It could be, you know. You know, it--it could easily be, and never interrupt the Scriptures, at all. It could be. So, we don't know now, let's be careful.

L-88   But they thought they was saved, and--and, but God knowed better than they did. And the same thing happens today.


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