<TITLE>08. Par 60-73</TITLE>L-60 Well, why is it Paul set it in the church? "There were first apostles, prophets, teachers, pastors, and evangelists." Certainly, there was.

L-61 The Holy Ghost is the Prophet. "When He the Holy Ghost is come upon you, He will reveal, or teach you, show you. These things that I've told you has all been in a riddle, you don't understand them now because it's not for your age now. But when the Holy Ghost is come, He will make those things live out, right to the promise. Not only that, but He'll show you things that is to come."

L-62 Glory! The continuity of God's Word, God's promise, God's Spirit. We're living in the hour, watching the unfolding of the prophecies of the age, coming to pass. What a great time that we're living in! The Holy Spirit was to show us things that was to come.

L-63   Man has ever tried to achieve and make for himself a name by making him a super sign. What makes a man try to make himself something super over the other? Why does he do that? Because, in him, he is a nature. He, by nature, he's a sinner, but in stature he's a fallen Son of God.

L-64 Why does he make himself such a pretty home, making it better all the time? Is be-... The bird don't make his home any different. The groundhog still lives in the ground, like he did a thousand years ago. See? The bird still builds a nest like he did a thousand years ago. See? But man is increasing. Why? He's... and he--and he is a fallen son of God. There is something in him that tells him that a palace, more beautiful, and there is something in him is trying to find it. It's searching for it. Oh, if we look at some of these homes today, what will them be on the other side? When a fallen nature can do a thing like this, what will it be?

L-65 But that's what makes him do that, his nature inside of him. Though he is fallen, he tries to make something in himself. He tries to do that. It's been from the beginning.

L-66   Adam, he tried to make a super religion without an atonement. They're still trying to do it. A super religion, make a religion so he could live any way he wanted to, without an atonement, and still have a covering. He tried to do it in the beginning, and he is still trying to do it.

L-67 But God's provided way was an atonement, and it'll never work no other way. It has to come back to an atonement.

L-68 Nimrod tried to build a super tower, a religious tower. Whether there would be anybody that would... A little tower might have been thirty feet high, but he wanted to make something super, something greater, so he built him a tower. That was in his day.

L-69   Nebuchadnezzar wanted to build a super city. He took the pattern off of Heaven, the swinging gardens, the river Euphrates, by the throne; just like the Water of Life, the River of Life, running by the Throne of God. He tried to make a super city.

L-70 The United States, a few years ago, tried to make a super ship. They made it, so they said, "It would never sink. It couldn't be sank." God put the Titanic in the bottom of the sea. Shows that man's achievements will never amount to anything. It's all dust and going back to the dust, what's in him.

L-71 Russia, today, is trying to raise up a super scientist that can do some scientific things, to conquer the world.

L-72   France, not long ago, thought they could still have their women, wine, and big time; so they made themself, called, a Maginot Line, had their guns all towards Germany, the archenemy. "If they ever come this way! We'll just live any way we want to. And we'll make a big super line out here, make it out of concrete, point our guns. If they ever come, we'll touch a button; it'll all fire and blow them back in Germany." Germany marched right around behind it. They forgot.

L-73 So have we forgot! God, with His mighty hand, shows this world it cannot stand. But they want a super sign.


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