<TITLE>14. Par 164-176</TITLE>L-164 Many times, people today will laugh and make fun of the Holy Spirit, then go on and increase in their business. You know, excuse this expression... But when they laughing, say, "Why, look, me! If there's anything to It, see, why, it'd happened to me, something would happened to me."

L-165 You know, there is a--a--a proverb, that, "Fools will walk with hobnailed shoes where Angels fear to trod."

L-166 This young ruler practically did that. See? He made a--a horrible mistake, and we find out that it never hindered his business. He increased. He got more popular, got more goods. We find out, after a while, that he had got so great till even he had to build new barns to put his stuff in.

L-167   And because that the church has turned down the Holy Spirit, in this last days, it's increased. And now you're going into the Ecumenical Council, just exactly what the Bible said you would do. Now you're really Laodicea, "rich and increased in goods," just exactly like that young man was.

L-168 He was a type of the church, rejecting. Paul was a type of the one receiving. Both of them had the opportunity, as you have tonight, and I have.

L-169 He increased in goods. So has the church, the Laodicean Age, increased in goods. And remember, he got so great, till he become so popular, till even the monarchs, the great people, begin to come. And he set a great banquet, one time.

L-170   And there was a holder of the Eternal Life policy at his bazaar, and we find out that he was laying down at the door. Oh, he might sweep some crumbs off to him. He had the opportunity again, a witness, Lazarus testifying to him. But he just swept the crumbs off, "Oh, well, I'll try this, take this quarter, or whatever," you know. That's about the attitude of 1964. "Oh, I'll help a little. That's all right, just let him go, see."

L-171 But he held the policy. "The poor in spirit," Matthew 5 tells us that's the one, "theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven."

L-172 He went on increasing in goods, and getting greater and more popular, and a great man, but his pay off finally come. It finally come. On earth he had a great pay off. He had a great funeral service, no doubt. The great denominational preacher come, probably spoke great words over him. They might have half-masted the flag. Fine businessmen packed him to his burial. But the Bible said, "in hell," his pay off come for rejecting the Eternal Life policy.

L-173   "In hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torment." And he looked off across the great chasm, that Jesus said no man has ever crossed or ever will, and he found the policyholder of Eternal Life, comforted, on the other side. Both of them. One had received It. Both had their pay off. The crumb-sweeper had the pay off. And now the rich man becomes the beggar, "Let the policyholder come back and touch my lips with a--a little water, for these flames are tormenting me."

L-174 Don't make the same mistake, businessman. You are mortal just like they were. You've got to make a decision. Make your investment now. Make it sure. "Make your election, calling sure." Take out one of the policies.

L-175 Look just--just a moment or two more, if you can. When Moses, who forsook, being a king of Egypt, a Pharaoh, esteeming the reproach of Christ. Pharaoh looked out upon them people as a bunch of mud dubbers, but Moses looked upon them as the people with a promise.
How do you look on them, God's people?

L-176 Moses had his pay off. Watch his pallbearers. The Bible said they were "Angels." Why? Nobody else could take him where he was going. They were his pallbearers.


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