<TITLE>08. Par 57-65</TITLE>L-57 And many times, today, it's the same thing. They say, "Well, my denomination believes this, and I don't care!" See? Take time to search the Word. God will never judge the world by a denomination, He will judge it by His Word. And His Word is Christ, and Christ is the Word. They're the same, "yesterday, today, and forever," Hebrews 13:8. But, instead of trying to take correction, they fly loose. They can't stand It. They just...

L-58   Now that's exactly what Uzziah done, a good man. You say, "Well, that person was a..." Uzziah was a good person, too, a fine person, a God-blessed man. But, no matter what it was, he must always stay in his place. Because, God give him the opportunity to influence others by being a righteous king, not a priest. And the Word forbid him to do that, so he went in and was going to offer. And when he was called down, the Word was give to him, that he wasn't supposed to do that thing; that God had blessed him in his business, and whatever it was, but not to try to take this priest's place. He was out of the Word. Well, he was going to do it anyhow, no matter what anyone said.

L-59 Now isn't that the attitude of too many people today? They won't take correction of the Word. And that's the reason we find ourselves wrapped up in a big Council of Churches here, not knowing where we're going, heading into the world. Tens of thousands of members added every year, and we don't see the hand of God anywhere moving. Dead, formal, just exactly what the Bible said they would be, "A Laodicea church age, a lukewarm, spurted from the mouth of God." Christ on the outside, trying to get in, and the church inside won't let Him in; sets the picture of today, exactly. Because, man doesn't understand that their position comes from the Word, the Word of God.

L-60   And Uzziah ought to have taken that heed. Now, remember, we call him, today, a Christian that God had blessed. He wasn't just some ordinary man. He was a man that was blessed by God, but he did not want to stand correction. No matter how much the Word said it was so, he didn't want to understand That, because he felt secure enough that God would let him get by with something else.

L-61 And that's what's the matter with our peoples today around the world, that they think that God will let them get by with something contrary to this Word. He'll never do it. We must come back to correction, and stand correction by the Word. And because of his arrogant way he acted, he pay no attention to what this minister had to say. He would do what he wanted to do. Just think, now just stop that in your mind a minute.

L-62   How can a child face a father and mother, that's godly; how could a teen-ager look in the face of a godly old mother, with her hair turning gray; and say to this teen-ager, "Honey, mother has raised you different"? And you see back down through the life, what's done for mother. Don't do that, and turn arrogant and say, "Take your religion, and go, I'll do what I want to." What's the outcome of that teen-ager, what happens to them? It's gone. They're lost, spiritually, morally, many times physically and mentally. They are completely cut off from mercy. Well, then, that would be a horrible thing for a teen-age boy or girl.

L-63 Then think about a man or a woman, down in the ministry, or a Christian that calls himself a child of God, and look into the Commandments of God, and turn their back, and say, "My denomination don't believe It that way."

L-64 We need influential Christians, influenced by the Word of God. Called men or women, for--an for an influence to the elected Church for the last days, is what we need. God, give it to us! And they'll be there. They're going to be.

L-65   We find out that Uzziah, because of his arrogance, he was smitten with leprosy. He never did recover. He never recovered. He had to separate himself from the Presence of God, and die in a lepers' house.


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