<TITLE>13. Par 97-108</TITLE>L-97   Notice, they do that every time that they don't know... The man in between, it's a bad place because: one can show the matter, why he thinks he's right; the other one can show how he thinks he's wrong; and the one in between don't know nothing about the matter, he don't know which way to turn. And that's just the way it is in religion. People do the same thing today about their Eternal destination.

L-98 Now we're going to hurt, just a minute. They do it about their Eternal destination. A man will go down here at this--at this... to eat. And if you'd find a spider in your bowl of soup, you'd want to sue that company or that restaurant. Why, you wouldn't eat that soup, it'd be poisoned. You--you--you--you wouldn't take it at all, a big roach or something boiled up in a bowl of soup. Why, you wouldn't have it at all. It would make you sick to think about it. But yet, you'll let some bunch of theologians push something down your throat that'll send you a million miles from God, and gulp over it. When, "Man shall live by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God." It's a chain that your soul is hanging over hell with. And as I've said before, "A chain is its best at its weakest point." One link to break... that's all you have to do is break one of them; that's all. The rest of them lets loose with it. It's only as strong as its weakest link.

L-99   Now... And a person that knows if you eat that soup with a poison spider in it, it would probably make you sick. You'd have to go to the hospital, and--and have your stomach pumped and a lot of trouble to go through. And it could actually kill you. But, my! You'd... Why, you'd never go around a place like that. You'd never want to darken the door again, because you--you--you afraid you'd get poisoned and die. And then you'll absolutely join up, put your names on books, and fight for the very cause of the thing that the Bible said, "It's not damning your body, but sending your soul to hell." See? How strange that people do. They--they've... They take their Eternal destination, base it upon some theological term. And you can bring them the Scripture, said, "This is what the Bible said. Here it is right here."

L-100 And the theologian look at It, "Well, that was for another day." See? And you listen to him. You see what God says. A real, true Christian only listens to that Word, and that's all. Man of God live by that Bread.

L-101   Notice, some--some believe in the Word. While there's others believe in their denominational interpretation. And there's others, by this confusion, that don't know what to believe.

L-102 Now some of them said, "Oh, this World Council of Churches, that's going to be the thing. It's going to make us all one. Oh, that's just it."

L-103 And others say, "Why, it's of the Devil! Here it is in the Scripture."

L-104 Then the man that don't take time to set down and pray and seek it out, he said, "Oh, forget it." Uh-huh. Forget it? It's your... by your statement, brother, by your position, by what term you take, is going to send you to your Eternal destination where you'll be forever. Don't do that.

L-105   It behooves us to set down when anything like this rises up. And a question... Like in the days of Jesus; when they come, the church said, "Oh, He's just a renegade. There's nothing to Him."

L-106 But One said, "Search the Scriptures." He said, "In Them you think you have Eternal Life, and They tell you Who I am."

L-107 Then men, women, with any Christian status at all, or interest in their Eternal destination, ought to search the Scriptures and see Who He was. Then the question wouldn't been, "Who is this?" They'd say, "Here He is!" That's the difference. See, it's man, they--they--they just prone to be that way. Some are ordained to it. Hard to say that, but it's true. It shows it. See?

L-108   Now, today, some says, "I believe the Word. The Word is Truth; every Word of It."


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