<TITLE>07. Par 50-56</TITLE>L-50   Some man or woman at my age, I might ask you this. What if my mother or your mother, about fifty years ago, walked out on the street with one of these pair of shorts or bikinis, ever what you call it, on? The law would have picked them up, immediately, and put them in the insane institution. A lady left the house without her top clothes on, and she should be in the institution, because mentally there is something wrong. And if it was mentally to do a thing like that then, it certainly is a sign that something has went insane. It's still a mental deficiency, going beyond reason; filth!

L-51   And when a man can smoke cigarettes, and the doctors proving to him that thousands die every year from the cause, and can still puff away at cigarettes, it seems like there is something wrong with that man's mind.
And when a man has a mental shock, and he doesn't... can't get hisself together, what he's doing, he'll search every doctor's office there is in the country, to find out what's wrong with him. But then he'll stand at the bar or in the car, and drink till he's totally insane; spend his money, to shove himself into that. And if he happened to go into it without the intoxication of liquor, then he'll spend every penny he finds, in the doctor's office, trying to find out what's wrong with him. It doesn't make sense.

L-52   If there would come a chicken hawk flying over the city, and I would get my rifle, and go out in my back yard and shoot this hawk, in ten minutes from there I'd be in jail. They would have me arrested, "For--for disorderly conduct; handling a firearm in the city; endangering peoples lives, with a rifle, shooting up in the air at the hawk." I might kill somebody, they would say. "He ought to be put away."
And then they will sell a man enough liquor to get him drunk, and stick him in a car that might kill a whole family full. And when he's caught, he's give, five dollars in cost. Premeditated murderer! What's the matter with the world? Something's wrong somewhere.

L-53   Now, "going beyond the camp," beyond decency, beyond reason.
You notice, our politicians today won't say nothing about reading the Bible in school. They're afraid. They don't know which way the wind is a blowing. They don't know whether they'll lose the vote, or not. We need another Abraham Lincoln. We need another John Quincy Adam. We need somebody who will stand up, regardless of which a way the wind is a blowing, and give their honest convictions.

L-54 Today, a denominational preacher, though you show him in the Word, the Truth, he don't know what to do. He's afraid he'll lose his meal ticket. We need man and women today that's burly with the Gospel, somebody that'll stand and tell their conviction, point out what's right and what's wrong, whether the Word of God is right or whether the denomination is right.

L-55   Jesus said, "Let every man's word be a lie, and Mine the Truth. Heavens and earth will pass away, but My Words shall never pass away."

L-56 So, you see, they go beyond the camp of God's Word, to find their answer. When he was... persuaded them from the camp of God's Word, like he did Eve in the garden of Eden, Satan has done the same thing today. All right. We find that. People are persuaded to their dogmas and creeds without the camp, in their camp of dogma and creed. They have a camp, also, and that puts them into his camp. His is the camp of education, theology, works, doctors degree, educational, personality, everything that's against God's Word camp. God has a camp for His people. The denomination has their own camp.


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