<TITLE>05. Par 41-50</TITLE>L-41 So anything in vain is of non-, no avail, doesn't do no good. You should never do it, because you're just wasting your time. You're wasting your breath, you're wasting your efforts, until we come to know what we're doing.

L-42   Surely, if God expects people to be perfect, as Jesus said, "Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father in Heaven is perfect," there must be some preparation somewhere. And He said, "I'll choose the place that the people will worship Me. No other place will I meet them." And, now, that's got to be that place, and we ought to seek it out. Find out where it's at, and then go there. And I think we should turn there, quickly, when we find the place, leaving other things alone.

L-43 Now, remember, Jesus said in this same Scripture here that I'm quoting. Man's tradition then is in vain. We should never fool with it. There needs be, somewhere, some place that He has provided a place for us, that we could come and the worship would be received. Now, remember, outside of that chosen place, no matter how sincere you are, how fundamental you are, you are still worshiping in vain.

L-44 I know that sounds rude. But, the building is about finished, we don't want it shaking. Let's bolt it down with the Gospel, so that when people meets you on the street, or wherever you are, you Christians, that you'll have an answer for them.

L-45 In the hour when they're saying, "Oh, this is That. And I seen these do this, and that do that." Certainly, all these things has got to happen. But there is a place that's provided by God alone, and that's the place that God meets the worshiper, alone.

L-46   Notice the 2nd verse, "Worship in the place that I have chosen." Chosen what? In this place shows' that He has a place where all people worship. Other places are in vain. "And in this same place," He said, "I have chosen also to put My Name in this place. I'll choose a place, and I'll put My Name in it, in this place that he's going to worship."

L-47 Now, this shows that there is one place, just one. It must be God's choosing; it can't be ours. We have no choice coming; He's already chose it. Now, what God chooses is right. I can choose wrong, you can choose wrong, but God cannot. Choose right. After all, it's, He's the one that's being worshiped. And He's got the place where He wants His worshipers to meet there, and we must meet Him there. That's the only place that He stays; only place that He'll hear you from.

L-48   Let us notice here, also, "The place I've chosen to worship Me in, I'll put My Name in that place."

L-49 Oh, now let us search the Scriptures for that place that He has His Name in. Now we have shadows and types, all through the Bible, we know that, of different places where He met the people, but that's not the place that He'll meet them today. Because they were only foreshadowing something, coming up to the real place where He's to meet the people, the place, the Church that He is to meet in. And there is a place, there is a Church, that God promised to meet the people in this place and answer their prayers, if they would just come to this place and worship Him.

L-50 Now we find out that there is many claim that--that they have the place, God's Name is in their place. But, you see, they put God's Name in there. There is a lot of difference between God putting His Name there, and somebody putting there, His Name there. See? We must remember that God said, He would put. "I have put My Name. I will put My Name in this place. And that's the place that I choose, and have chosen, that people should worship."


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