<TITLE>09. Par 73-80</TITLE>L-73   You know, there was a time that when table manners rested upon what a woman said. I believe her name was Emily Post. I may be wrong on that. I think that's right, Emily Post. I don't care if Emily Post said, "Pick up your knife and eat the--the beans with it," that was manners. Why? She was the absolute of table manners. That's right. If she said, "Eat them with your hands," you eat them with your hands. Why? This nation made her the absolute, to table manners. Yes, sir.

L-74 There was a time when Germany had a--an absolute, and that was Hitler. It was an absolute. I don't care what anybody else said, when Hitler said, "do it," you do it. You'd better. He's the last word. Hitler was.

L-75 There was a time when Rome had an absolute, and that was Mussolini, the dictator. A man drove up one minute early for him, he shot him in his car and jerked him out, said, "I never said a minute early, I said be here on time." An absolute! Whatever he said, they had to do it. It had to turn. He said he would make the whole world turn by his word. It turns by the Word of God!

L-76   There was a time when Egypt had an absolute. It was Pharaoh. I went down to Egypt one time, just to see those places. And you have to dig down twenty feet to find the thrones that they set on, the emperor of Rome; when I was in Rome and down in Egypt.

L-77 See, it all turned back to historical dust, because it was the wrong kind of absolute. That's right. It's wrong. It failed. It was man-made absolutes. And every man-made absolute and every man-made achievement must go to dust. They must go to dust. It's the wrong kind, so it fails.

L-78   Just think of our nation. When we get in trouble, if somebody does something, and they try it here in maybe in a--a small court of the city, some police court, then it goes on, on, and finally it comes to the Supreme Court. Now, the Supreme Court is the nation's absolute. That settles it. Now, in Canada, our friends from Canada can go, from Canada, to the Queen. But in the United States, it's the Supreme Court. That's the absolute. Sometimes we don't like their decisions, but we have to listen to it anyhow. Yes, sir. We don't agree with it, we don't like the decision sometime, but it's the absolute of this nation. The nation is tied to it. It's the end of all arguments. When that Supreme Court says, "You're guilty," you are guilty. We have to have it; we don't, we don't have a nation. What if we didn't have anything like that? Certainly. There is an absolute to everything.

L-79   There is an absolute in a ball game. That's the umpire. Right. And if he says, "It's a strike," that's what it is. Don't care what you say, what I think, way I saw it, the way you saw it. It's what he said. It's an absolute. If he says, "Strike," you have to agree with it, 'cause that's the way it's going to be wrote up, "strike." What if there was no umpire, now who would be right? One said, "it was a strike," the another one said, "it was not no strike; it was a ball, it was a..." Why, you'd have chaos. You wouldn't know what to do.

L-80   There's got to be somewhere that somebody's word is final. Amen. I feel real good right now. Glory! Hallelujah! There's got to be something that's final. I'm so glad of that. Oh, now, there's somebody who can say, "It's sin," or, "It's not sin." I'm so glad of that. I'm glad for an absolute. No arguing, no need of arguing. The umpire said, "strike," that's what it is; mark it up in your mind, "it's a strike," and go on. When God says anything, that's the way it is! No need of arguing about it. That's what it is. He said so. That's the Christian's absolute, that is if he is a Christian. God said, "Do it this way," that's the way it's got to be done. No arguing, "Well," say, "it wasn't." Nothing about it. God said so, that settles it! That's the absolute to the real believer. Yeah.


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