<TITLE>11. Par 93-104</TITLE>L-93   A fine Baptist minister, Brother Naylor, he's in Glory today, he come down, he talked to me. And, oh, there's many people that talked to me when I--I was trying to find God. The Seventh-day Adventist preacher wanted me to join up with them, and so forth. But I seen that if I was going to be a Christian, I--I couldn't say, "Now I am a Seventh-day Adventist." Now, that's all right. "I'm a Baptist." It's all right, see, but I had to have something a little more sure than that. I--I couldn't trust, because each one was wavering.

L-94 I thought, "There is somebody somewhere, you have to have something that's true, somewhere."

L-95   So I needed an absolute, so I took one, God's Word. So I read in the Word that He is the Word, Saint John 1. "And upon this absolute, I'll build My Church." That's right, so I took Him at His Word. Revelation 22:19 said, "Whosoever shall take one Word out of This, or add one word to It." That's the absolute. That's the end of all strife. This is the absolute. "Whoever takes anything from It, or adds anything to It," God said, "I'll just take his part out of the Book of Life," so That had to be the absolute. And Jesus said that, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word." Then I knowed this "every Word" had to be. Said, "Precept upon precept, and line upon line." That's the way It has to come, just as It's written.

L-96 Then He said, "If ye abide in Me," He is the Word, "My Words abiding in you, you can ask what you will." I knowed then if Christianity was the Word of God. And He was the Word; and by accepting the Word, the Word lived through Him, then I know, "If ye abide in Me, and My Word in you, ask what you will." And if you are in the Word and part of the Word, you'll only ask what the Word tells you to ask. Know the day you're living, then, and ask accordingly.

L-97 So therefore, back to the subject, makes... Talking now this personally, but I'm tied. I am tied to Jesus Christ, to Him, by His Word. He is my absolute.

L-98 I found that all these denominations and things had their absolute. Each one, each one, they have their own absolute.

L-99   The Catholic, when that pope says something, that's it. That's the absolute of the Catholic church. I don't care what the priest says, what the bishop says, what the cardinal says; when the pope says it, that's it. That's the absolute. It's correctly.

L-100 In the Methodist church and many of the Protestant denominations, what the bishop says, that's the absolute. That's all. What the creed says, that's the absolute.

L-101 In the Pentecostals, it's what the general overseer says, whether you can have this person for a revival, or not. That's the absolute. You disagree his words, you're kicked out of the organization. See, the Word ain't considered at all. See? You get these absolutes, each one having his own absolute.

L-102   But, you know, I don't say this sacrilegiously. I say it for truth. I feel like that way Paul did, when He said, in Acts 20:24, "None of these things move me." "I am determined to know nothing among you; but Jesus Christ, and Him crucified." I'm not bothered about these absolutes, whether it's the pope, bishop, or a general overseer, or a counselor, or a system, or whatever it is, none of these things move me. I don't care if they say, "Well, we--we won't co-..." That don't make a bit of difference. I'm determined to know nothing but Jesus Christ, His Word made manifest among us. I'm tied to That. That's my anchor. I've anchored in That.

L-103 "Since I..." Paul said, "Since I met Him, on the road, I've turned around. I've... He straightened me out."

L-104 My, how He straightened me out! What a straightening He had to do on me. But since He straightened me out, I got tied to It. I seen the Word was Truth, everything contrary to It was wrong.


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