<TITLE>04. Par 25-32</TITLE>L-25   And as Christian soldiers, let's stand at attention while we read the Word of God. Listen close to the reading of the Word. The reason I like to read It; my words may fail, but His won't. So if I read His Word, alone, you'll be blessed. 10th verse of the 13th chapter of Hebrews.
We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.
For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
For here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

L-26   Lord God, Who is responsible for this Word, and responsible for taking care of It down through the ages, to see that It's come to us unadulterated. It is pure, virgin Word of God. We so cherish It in our hearts at this moment. Break this text up, Lord, into a context for us, tonight; that we, the children of man, might understand the bidding of God. For we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.

L-27   My subject for the--this evening is: Going Beyond The Camp. It's quite a little subject, a little odd, but, you know, usually we find God in odd things. The world gets so set in a custom thing, till, anything irregular from the regular trend, it becomes odd.
As I preached here a few days ago, here at the tabernacle, on: The Oddball. And the farmer is an oddball to the businessman; the businessman an oddball to the farmer. The Christian is an oddball to the -believe... unbeliever, and so forth. You have to be somebody's fool. So, anything unusual, it makes you kind of a fool, to the--the regular trend.

L-28 And therefore, God's people, and His prophets, and His--His messengers through the age, that carried His Message from the Word, has been considered fools, to the outside.

L-29 Noah was a fool, to his great intellectual world that he preached to. Noah... Was certainly a fool, to Pharaoh; with his foot on the throne and then forsake it, for a bunch of mud daubers, as they thought. And Jesus was a fool, to the people. And all the rest of them that's worked and lived for God, has been considered fools. They have to go beyond the camp that they had.

L-30   More and more, I am made to believe that people are not getting to Christ.
Now, I am here to try to help in every way that I can, and make my statement as clear as I know how to make them. And you suffer with me if you will.

L-31 As I look and preach across the nation, and watch the people, I--I am fully persuaded that the people are not getting to Christ. And I believe that it's the enemy that's throwed this hindrance. Because, the reason I believe this, He is not the object that they have been pointed to. They have either been pointed to a--a--a dogma, or a doctrine, or a party, or experience, or a sensation, or something like that, instead of being pointed to Christ, the Word.
That's why I think that people are resting their Eternal destination upon some dogma, or some sensation. Like, some say, "I danced in the Spirit. I--I spoke with tongues. I--I--I felt fire run over me." And do you know, all those things can be impersonated by the devil?

L-32   There is just one thing that he cannot impersonate, that's the Word. In the debate, between he and Jesus, each time Jesus defeated him. "It is written," the Word!
And I believe, today, that the reason that people are not coming to Christ, is because they are pointed, many of them, to a--a--a denomination. "You come join our church." Or, "You read our catechism," or, "Believe our doctrine," or--or some system of some sort. They are pointed in the wrong way. And their action and the life that they live without Christ, proves in their own life, is vindicated by that very thing.


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