<TITLE>07. Par 52-61</TITLE>L-52 It's come till the whole world has become a great deception of what is really true and what's right. See, even in politics, and in social affair, in school, in everything, it becomes a deceitfulness.

L-53   A young fellow was telling me the other day that he was down to an army camp, and a young soldier got run over by a tank; his lungs, his stomach, or whatever it was, punctured. And they went up to the hospital; they had three or four doctors standing there in line, and everybody standing in line. And two or three soldiers holding their buddy up, and him just barely could breathe... Every time he'd breathe, that rib would stick right into his lungs, and that would make him bleeding inwardly. And they let that young man stand there in that line, way back in the back of the line, and let them, some of them guys with nothing but an earache or something, go ahead.

L-54 And about time he got up there, some colonel come in with a little child that had rash, his little boy or girl had rash on his hand. And they stopped that line, to put the colonel's child in, and that boy punctured, dying. There you are.

L-55 Oh, if that colonel would have been a genuine feeling for his brother out there in the line, he would've said, "This kid can wait. Get that man up here quickly, do something for him!"

L-56   But every man wants to show his authority. Now, they're not all like that; no, they're not all like that. But there is too many like that. There's too many of them that's like that. But the man, only thing he was thinking of, was his own little boy that had a rash on his hand, and not thinking about that poor boy standing there mashed under a tank, the very tank and maybe the very boy that would save his life someday on the battle front. See, they don't stop to think; only for themselves.
"A thinking man's filter."

L-57 I looked at it, and I thought, "It's something like the--the denominations of today, the churches that we have." Each one of them has their own filter; they have their own type of filter. They let just what come in they want to, and what not come in; what they filter in and filter out, with their own kind of a filter. They just let so much of the world get in to satisfy the unbelievers that's in there. They'll take them in no matter what they are, if they got money. They'll take them in no matter what they are, if they're popular.
But there is one thing about it, you can't get in the Church of God like that; not the denomination now, I mean the real, genuine Church of God.

L-58   Like the tobacco companies of today, the people that comes into these said churches or denominations, they have a taste, and that taste is the classics of the world. And each denomination has their own filter, and they filter out all the true Christians that would say "amen" when he was preaching; and bring in all the bobbed-haired, painted-faced Jezebels that's in the country, as long as they are popular. "So-and-so comes to our... a movie star, a great person." That's the kind of a filter that they use. "Our denomination. So-and-so, the president, or the--or the colonel, or someone belongs to our denomination." See what kind of a filter they use? That filter, of course, is of the world, the people of the world.

L-59 The people, they know what they want. So if they have to get what they want, then they'll have to have a certain kind of a filter, and enough of the world speak through, to satisfy their worldly taste. "A thinking man's filter, a smoking man's taste." A religious world's filter, and a worldly man's taste.

L-60   They want to be religious. They think they must be religious, because they have a soul.

L-61 When we first come to this country, you found the Indian worshiping suns and so forth, because (why?) he is a human being. We go back in the far jungles of Africa, we find the natives worshiping something. Why? They're human beings, and they want, must worship.


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