<TITLE>10. Par 81-92</TITLE>L-81   What if there wasn't something like that, where would we be? Would the Methodist be right, Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, or what would be right? See, we'd have, that's the reason that you--you'd have chaos. And that's the reason. They've turned loose of that absolute, that's the reason they're straying with these other stars.

L-82 But there is an absolute. There has to be an absolute. There must be an absolute. And there is an absolute. That's the Word. And what others say, it doesn't matter. Yes, sir.

L-83 Now, if we didn't have an umpire in a ball game, everybody would be pulling one another's hair, and fussing and fighting. See? That's the reason we need an absolute in Christianity, stop this pulling hair, and fussing and fighting. See? The Word said it, and that settles it. Don't take to it or take away from it. Just leave it the way it is.

L-84   You know, there is an absolute to the traffic, that's the stop light, the traffic signal. What if some morning it don't work? Oh, my! Did you ever get in one of them? I have. No doubt, any driver has. What if that stop light isn't working? Then everybody is fussing. They drive up there, and one say, "I was here first," the other one say, "Let me tell you something, I got to get to work!" Oh, my! Them women swinging pocketbooks, and men fighting with fists, and you talk about a chaos! There has to be an absolute, something says "this is right," and that's it. When that light said, "stop," it means stop. When it says, "go," it means go. If it isn't, you're in trouble.

L-85   That's the way it is in Christian life. There is a stopping place, and there is a going place. God's Word is that absolute. That's Christ. Yes, sir. If you...

L-86 If the traffic signals are not on, then we got a traffic jam. And I think that's what we've got up there in the religious pentagon today; a traffic jam, of make-believers, unbelievers, and everything jammed together. You just got a traffic jam. Why? They don't have no absolute. One say, "Well, we're... We're the absolute." The other one say, "We're the absolute."

L-87 God is the Absolute. He said, "Let every absolute, otherwise than Mine, be a lie. Mine is the Truth!" So, there is the absolute to Christianity. That's the end of all arguments. The Bible said so, that makes It right. Yes, sir. There must be an absolute in everything.

L-88   Some just like the churches today, most the churches has their own absolute. Each one has his own, something like the days of the judges, every man done the way he thought was right. But that ain't right. See, that's when God's Word and prophets wasn't in existence. The Word is the absolute. They had their own absolute. Each one says they are the Truth and the way, "We are the Truth and the way."

L-89 But Jesus said He was the Truth and the way, "the Truth, Way, and Light." Is that right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Well, then, He is the Word, so there is the absolute. And the denominational absolutes, nothing to it; it's wrong, let it go.

L-90   Now, man does right in his own sight, but God has got a way for him to do it. See, when God and His Word and His prophets were missing, every man done just as he wanted to do.

L-91 And that's what's been in this day, each one says, "I--I belong to this." Are you a Christian? "I'm Presbyterian." Are you a Christian? I ask you. One girl said, "I give you to understand, I burn a candle every night." Another man said, in the prayer line, I asked him if he was a Christian, said, "I'm an American. How dare you!" Like that's got anything to do with It? See, they're tied to a nation. The other one is tied to an organization, dogmas.

L-92 But a Christian means "Christ-like." And only way you can be Christ-like is for Christ the Word to be in you. That's the ultimate. Yeah. I seen this before I was converted, and I'm glad God got a hold of me before the church did. So I knew when I...


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