<TITLE>13. Par 105-111</TITLE>L-105   The church will judge you here whether you're a good member, or not. They'll give you a good funeral, and half-mast the flag at your death, send great wreaths of flowers and--and do everything for you. But when it comes down to your soul facing God, it's got to have Eternal Life. And if it's a Eternal Life, it's part of the Word. And as my own word cannot deny...
My own hand cannot deny my hand. My own eyes cannot deny my hand, or my foot, or my toe, or any part of me. They cannot deny it.
And neither can a man that's part of the Word of God, or a woman, deny one part of the Word of God. Then, women, when you think you can have bobbed hair and come in the Presence of God, you're wrong. You see it? You are wrong; you can't come through God's Filter where you're washed by the water of the Word. Then you enter into the fellowship. You think you are, but you can't be until you come through the Word, and every little spot, every little Word of God. "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word." It's got to come through that filtration, coming through. And that gives a righteous man's taste, 'cause that's what he's looking for, looking for something to cleanse him.

L-106   The Word, the Word of God is a thinking man's Filter, and It makes a righteous man's taste. We know that true; filters all the sin of unbelief out. There's no more disbelief when you come through the Filter, because it is a true believer's taste.

L-107 The true believer wants to be right, regardless. He just don't want to say, "Well, I belong in the social ranks. I belong to church, the biggest church in town." I don't care if it's a mission on the corner, if it's a brush harbor, somewhere, a thinking man knows that he's got to meet God. And regardless of what the church says, or anybody else says, he's got to come on God's terms. And God's terms is God's Word.
"Well," they say, "'God's Word.'"
Sure, all of them believe It's God's Word, but can you filter through It? How you going to let a bobbed-haired woman come through There? How you going to do that? How you going to let a man come through There that won't hold up for this Doctrine? See?
It ain't a thinking man's taste. No. A thinking man will think, a thinking man will think twice before he jumps into something like that.

L-108   Notice, that Word cannot deny Itself. Then it is satisfied, or it's the desire. It's a desire of what? What made you desire It, in the first place? Because down in your soul there was a predestinated seed which was Eternal Life, always laying in there, always was in there. "All that the Father has given Me will come to Me. There isn't any of them going to be lost."

L-109 A thinking man's taste, when a thinking man hears the Word of God, "My sheep hear My Voice, a stranger they will not follow," for down in there is Life, and Life connects with Life.
Sin connects with sin, and sin is so hypocritical until it thinks that it's saved when it isn't saved. It's in the very depths of hypocrisy.

L-110 Church members want a denomination filter so that they can have their own desire and still be classed "religious" people. You hear them say, "Oh, he's very religious."

L-111   In Africa, was out there one day, and they was talking about these, some of the kids was talking about these rock-and-roll songs that Elvis Presley and them was singing, Pat Boone and whatevermore, Ricky Nelson and all them others. I said, "They're a bunch of renegades."
Some little girl said, "Why, he's very religious."


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