<TITLE>02. Par 12-22</TITLE>L-12 Because, we have different ideas, pretty near all of us. We'd sit down and go to even talking about something to eat, why, we would different on something to eat; and we're made different, our appetites are different. And therefore it makes our churches, we see they are different in their ideas of what is right and what's wrong. That gives us, every one, a privilege to take a choice.

L-13 But, to me, I--I believe that the Word of God is right. And I--I don't believe it's of any private interpretation. I believe it's just what It says, that's the Truth. And that's the way I take it, just on the basics of It being the Word of God. Now, I haven't got faith enough, maybe, to make all of it act, but I certainly wouldn't want to stand in the way of somebody who did have faith enough to make It act.

L-14 Like, for instance, Enoch had enough faith that he didn't have to die. He just took an afternoon stroll, and got tired here on earth and just walked on up to Heaven. I'd certainly like to have faith like that. But I hope that we do get that faith someday, as we grow on into Him. Now our...

L-15   The reason I chose this place, because it seems like that here, to me, is one of the places in the Bible that would be a--a critical place for the text tonight, because it looks like that God did change His mind, and told Balaam one thing to do and then told him something else to do. So I thought, maybe, just for a while, we'll try to straighten this out just a little, and see what He really told him.

L-16 So now to outline this. We know that Balaam was a--a--a prophet. And Balak was the king of Moab, at the time. And they were not infidels, up at Moab, they served the same God that Israel served. Because, Moab, the nation was founded by Lot's son, by his daughter, and so they served the same God. If you notice, their sacrifices and everything was just exactly the same, bullocks, and also the rams, speaking of the second Coming. And now if fundamentalism is all that God requires, then Moab was just as fundamental in his offering as what Israel was. But we find them now, Israel is in the line of following the Word of God, to a land that had been promised them. And they come...

L-17   Here would be a type of the natural and spiritual, meeting. And when the natural and spiritual meets, there is always a collision, because they run right head-on into each other. And Israel here, would, I want to represent it as a spiritual Church; and Moab as the natural church, just the church, what we call, church natural.

L-18 And we're all sure that there is a--a church, and there is a Bride coming out of that church. We know that, that that is true.

L-19 And they clash here. And we notice that when they clashed here, it come under something that I would like to speak a moment on. As soon as they clashed, and one seen what the other one was doing, there was a great impersonation, one of the other.

L-20 And that's where we find it today, that we do get too much impersonations. And when you do that, you're always in trouble. You cannot live the other fellow's life. We cannot impersonate something. We must be just what we are. You mustn't (never) try to. If this fellow does something; because he does it, you think you have to, too. You don't do that. You're an individual, to God. And we mustn't try to impersonate each other.

L-21   And now, Israel, right in the line of duty, marching on their way to a command, by a commandment of God, to a promised land, they clashed with Moab, another group of believers.

L-22 And I hope this doesn't sound too bad. But the little illustration I want to make here is, Moab being settled down in a land, he was more like an organized affair. He had his celebrities, and his dignitaries of the... of his kingdom.


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