<TITLE>13. Par 121-129</TITLE>L-121 You have to ride a wave, in a boat. You fellows that ride a boat know you can't face right into a wind like that, right into the wave. If you do, you'll pitch your boat right at the bottom. So you've got to guide this boat, let it roll with the wave. As the waves rolled, you roll right in and out with it. When you're... If you don't, you'll fill your boat full of water.

L-122   Well, after everything had broke and they couldn't hold it no more, they just had to let it drive. And when they did, then the boat filled up. It looked like all hopes was gone. And there they was, all troubled and scared. What a time it was! It was a trouble that they could not remedy anymore. And then fear set in, when they found out they couldn't remedy it.

L-123 And we've hit, likewise, trouble. We've hit trouble that we... national troubles that our nation can't remedy. Look at the hoodlums in our nation, just shot our President, then went and shot the boy. That's just as much hoodlum as the guy that shot the President, to my opinion, in a cold-blooded murder. If he gets by with that, then they'll keep on doing them. He'll probably get by with it, too. But just look what they do, the whole world! If we put an Abraham Lincoln in every parish in every county, they would still do it anyhow. See, it's troubles we can't remedy. The--the thing, sin, unbelief and evil, has just weeded into us, growed around us, wrapped the whole nation in it.

L-124   We got church troubles, arguments, fusses, seems like we can't remedy it. We got now what they're trying to do, now they've all got together for the Council of Churches. We--we can't remedy it.

L-125 We've tried to introduce the Word. Christ tried to bring It back by showing Himself, the resurrection, for two thousand years, He is still the same. They turned their back upon It, walked away; they're unbelievers. Make-believers still hang on, to find a fault with It, just as much as they can, on and on. But what is it? It's the same thing repeating again.

L-126   The Word, they ought to know. What was the remedy for all things? Is God. In Saint John 1, says, "He is the Word." We still have the Word, to bring us out of this. We don't need no Council of Churches. We don't need all these dogmas and things being mixed up into the Word. We've got the Bible here, tells us how to steer this thing. Back to the Bible, back to Its Message! That's Christ among us, the Bible, living Bibles. "You're written epistles," living Bibles, the Word of God living so through you! That's what we need.

L-127   That's what caused communism to raise up in Russia. Well, the communists is not no great party; there is only one percent of Russia is communism now, one percent. Ninety-nine percent is still free, but they're the ruling. They're the ruling. Why did it raise up in the first place? Because the corruption of the church. That's what done it. They took all the money from the people, to the church, and they live the same kind of lives. They wasn't no more but just like any other lodge. And the people got sick and tired of it, and that's how communism was born.

L-128 That's how worldlyism is born here. That's why we're having a Council of Churches. That's why we're going into this confederacy and the things that we're doing, is because that they have rejected the Word. Why they have a soup supper in the church, to pay the pastor? Because they reject God's way, of paying tithes. Certainly. Why do they take a creed? Because they don't want the Bible. Why they take an error? Cause they don't want the Truth.

L-129   If a man run in the basement and shut his eyes, say, "I refuse to say the sun is shining." There ain't no hopes for him. But if he's willing to look, the sun is shining. If he wants to come out in it, enjoy its blessings, all right. But if he don't, you can't do nothing about it. You would say there is something mentally wrong with the man.


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