<TITLE>09. Par 66-76</TITLE>L-66 Now, many people sympathize, many people say it's right. But that don't--that don't make it what... That ain't the thing that you're responsible for. As I've said, what if there...

L-67 If I was a young man, and looking for a wife, to be married; and here stood a girl that met every qualification that I thought it took to make a woman. Why, morally she was a queen, and lovely, and--and a fine personality, a real Christian, everything that I could think of, to make me a good wife. No matter how much I say she's perfect, she's exactly right, she isn't mine till I accept her and the responsibility of her being my wife.

L-68 That's the same thing the Message is. You might say, "It's right, or this, that, or the other." And say, "I sympathize with It. I believe It's the Truth." But you've got to accept It; and It's got to become a part of you, and you a part of It. You've got... Then, It's yours.

L-69 When you marry this certain woman that you have chosen, you are--you are one then.
And that's the way you are with Christ. When you see Him manifested and made real, then you are a part of Him, and He is part of you. And, together, you're a part of the Message.

L-70 Oh, how many denominational ships have we got going down to Tarshish, for the Jonah's of these days, nine hundred of them, something, a ships that takes the easy route. Don't want to face up to it.
Jonah didn't want to face up, the thing of going to the Gentiles. He didn't want to take that cruel Message over there, "Within forty days, you'll perish if you don't repent." He hated to do that. And he thought, "Them Gentiles, is hard to tell what they'll do to me." But he had to face up to it. See? But he took a easy ship and went down to Tarshish, went down in the hull of the ship and went to sleep; took the easy route.

L-71 It's a easy way, it's a popular way with the people. It's easy to take the way where everybody can pat you on the back and say you're a good fellow, "And this is so-and-so and certain," and the world will look upon you. It's easy to go the popular way.
But when--when you have to do something different, when you have to stand to your conviction of what you know to be the Truth, there is where the hard part, that's the rub comes, right there.

L-72 Oh, as we've often sang that old song:
How easy while sailing the sea, and it's calm,
To trust in the strength of Jehovah's great arm.
But, oh, let the waves begin to blow, let--let the wind blow and whip up the waves, then what do you do?

L-73 Something like I was told, one time, that a lady said. Back in the horse and buggy days, that said the horse run away with her, going from church. Said, "What'd you do?"

L-74 Said, "I trusted the Lord until the lines broke." Well, that's the time to trust the Lord, after every... after the lines is broke. You're trusting in the lines until they're broke. Yes.

L-75 And so we find out that we have many easy ways to go, ships going down to Tarshish, for it's easy, the unresponsibilities. It just flows in, you have everything coming; everybody likes you. And, everybody, you're a... Nobody disagree with you; you disagree with nobody. Now, if that ain't a dishrag! That's right. Yes, push over, flop over! Why, anybody, I don't care who you are, and what you're standing for... Actually, decent-thinking people will think more of you if you'll stand for your conviction of what's right. Right. Don't care...

L-76 You take a woman, she might be ever not very attractive, and whatever she is; but you let that woman stand for principles of womanhood, let her stand like a lady; and if a man's got a ounce of man about him, he'll take up for her. Absolutely. We appreciate something that--that somebody has got, that they believe that it's the truth and will stand for what they think is right.


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