<TITLE>16. Par 118-123</TITLE>L-118   Yesterday, we had the kids up on the river. I believe it was Saturday morning. We went down; Billy had been fishing in the boat. And we took the kiddies up, my little grandson and them, my daughter, and my little son, and we went up the river to--to take a boat ride. You couldn't even take a boat ride on the river, for the filthy, dirty, scummy people out there on the river, half naked and carrying on. A boat drove up beside of us, a bunch of little twelve-, fourteen-year-old boys, each one with a beer can in their hand, and a cigarette. They call that "having fun." Oh, my! How long can this world last, with such a system as that?

L-119   Then to free themselves from the thoughts that when they die they'll go to hell, the thing they do, they go and join one of these man-made cisterns. So that same type of people belongs in that cistern. It's nothing but a bunch of unclean, filthied wiggle-tails of the world. And they associate themselves to that because, as my old mother used to say, "Birds of a feather flock together." They won't come to the Fountain and be cleaned up from that life of sin. They want to live out there, and still hold a testimony that they are Christians. Why? They have turned from Him, the true Fountain of joy, Life, perfect Life and satisfaction. That's the reason they did it, because that they want to join up. They have some kind of people there that believe in that stuff.

L-120   Here not long ago, Brother Fred and I, and Brother Tom, a bunch of us went to a noted Baptist church in the city of Tucson, to see if we couldn't find a little something that would give us maybe a little fresh feeling. And the minister said something another about the people in Egypt, when they left they was eating garlic and so forth, they wanted to go back again and eat that. Said, "That's something like people of today."
And, we, everybody said, "Amen!" I never seen such a bunch! The whole church lost the sight of the preacher and looked back to see who it was that said "amen." Liked to scared them to death. They didn't know what it was.
When, David said, "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord. Praise Him upon harps! Praise Him with the psaltery! Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. And praise ye the Lord!" God rejoices in His people. Let them of the learned, say, "Amen," when anything is said right.

L-121   Why not turn from this system and cisterns of the world, to the faithful system of God, which is the artesian well, Jesus Christ? Why don't you turn to Him, where God is our abundant supply of joy, our abundant supply in praises, our abundant supply in satisfaction? The calmness of my nerves comes from God.
When I'm tore up, I find my satisfaction in Christ, not in a cigarette, not in the things of the world, not in joining some creed; but in finding Him, the promised Word that He said, "If I go away, I'll come again to receive you." I find my joy in that. He is my Joy.

L-122   They say today, by joining these things and by making this World Council of Churches, that they're going to make a better place to live in. To my honest opinion, they're going to make a better place to sin in. That's just... The whole thing is sin, anyhow; not to live in, but to die in. Make its place to sin in--sin in, instead of live in.

L-123 Any other thing, outside of Jesus Christ and His Word of Life, is a broken cistern. Anything that tries to substitute It; anything that you try to do to bring you peace, anything that you try to do to bring you comfort, any kind of a joy that you receive from anything else, as a substitute for This, it's a broken cistern full of filth. He gives perfect satisfaction.


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