<TITLE>09. Par 80-87</TITLE>L-80 God with His thoughts, becoming material, and then that brings us with Eternal Life. And Eternal Life, there is only one form of It, that's God. And then it's God expressed in His Church, like God expressed in His Son. It's the same God all the time. God above us; God with us; God in us; just bringing the whole thing right back.
Now, "In the beginning was the Word."

L-81   Now if we was going to talk about who is going to judge the world, why, you'd, somebody would say... I heard a Catholic person, said, "God will judge the world by the Catholic church." If He does, which Catholic church? See, they got so many different ones of them. The Orthodox, the Greek, or the Roman, or what, see, what Catholic church will He judge the world by? Well, if He judges it by the Catholic church, then the Protestant is out. If He judges it by the Protestant church, then the Catholic is out. If He judges it by the Methodist, the Baptist is out. Well, you say, "Wait a minute, they're all..." Oh, no.

L-82   Remember, in the beginning, the one, the only fortified, that of... that God gave Adam and Eve, was to stay behind His Word. And just not to... Satan didn't misbe-... didn't tell her It wasn't so. He just misquoted one little phase of It. And if one little phase caused all of this trouble, sickness, and heartaches, and sorrows, one little phase will keep us out of It.

L-83 God will judge the world not by any certain group. He'll judge the world by Jesus Christ, and Christ is the Word. He is the Word. "In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." So He is the expressed Word of God in every age. He makes Him the same yesterday, today, and forever.

L-84   Identified Himself, in the beginning, with the prophets. Now, remember, the prophets is who the Lord speaks through. And--and now notice, He identified Himself in human beings, from the very beginning, from the very start of time.

L-85 He always has a way of doing things, and He never changes His way. That's the reason I can believe His Word. If God was ever called on the scene to make an act; and the decision that God made when He was called on the scene, He has to act the same way every time He is called on the scene, or He acted wrong at the first place. Otherwise, if He was called to save a man, He saved him on a certain basis; and if He's ever called to save another man, He has got to do the same way He did the first time, or He did it wrong when He did it the first way. If He's ever called on the scene to heal a man, and He healed him on the basis of some certain thing; if He's ever called again to heal, He's got to heal on them same basis, or He acted wrong. And He is infinite, omnipresent, omniscient. He's--He's the infinite God, so He doesn't change.

L-86   Now, we are finite. We can say this is right, today, tomorrow we can find something different. We can be better. We got a better, build better houses than we did a hundred years ago. We got better cars than we had twenty years ago, and we got better transportation, and whatever more you want to go into. We're better because we're learning.

L-87 But God hasn't, because He is perfect, to begin with. Therefore, He and His Word is the same, so His Word is perfect. If you don't believe that, don't never come in the prayer line, 'cause that's the only basis that you can accept anything. Faith can only take its rest upon something that it's sure of, and the real genuine faith rests itself on the Eternal Rock of God's Eternal Word. It doesn't shift. It stays right there, regardless. Talk about rock of Gibraltar? That's the Rock of Ages it stands on. The Word never can change, and faith rests upon That. Said, "Heavens and earth will pass away, but My Words shall never fail." Men and women who ever amounted to anything, were men and women who believed that to be the Truth. And that is the Truth. He, the Word, is the Truth.


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