<TITLE>08. Par 41-50</TITLE>L-41   Notice now, we come back, we've got to have something another that we have to hold onto. Something has to be a tie post, in other words, it's an ultimate. And everyone must have an ultimate or an absolute. I preached on it one time, years ago, on an absolute, a place that's the last word.

L-42 Like the umpire at a ball game, if he says it's a strike, that's just exactly what it is. No matter how you seen it, the umpire said it's a strike. You said, "I--I--I... It wasn't a strike. It went... I seen the..." No matter what it is, when he said, "strike," that's it, that settle just what. He, he is the ultimate.

L-43 And the traffic light is an ultimate, if it says, "go." You say, "Well, I, I'm in a hurry, I got..." No, no. It says, "You stand still while the other fellow goes." See? It's the ultimate.

L-44   Now, there's got to be an ultimate to everything you do. There had to be an ultimate when you chose your wife. There had to be a woman you had to select.

L-45 Now, there has to be a time where, when you're going to buy a car, what kind of an ultimate you're going to make. Will it be Ford, Chevy, Plymouth, foreign car, whatever it is, you got to have an ultimate.
And so is it with Christian living. There has got to be an ultimate.

L-46   Now, if a man said, went to another man and said... heard somebody say, "Well, you should be baptized," and this fellow never... Maybe, his, some church that didn't baptize, they just sprinkled. I think, say for instance, the Methodist, they do baptize if it's requested, I understand. Or maybe the... A Catholic, I think they sprinkle only. So then if--if a man heard something about being "immersed in the water," well, he didn't understand that; he was raised Catholic. So he goes up to the priest, and said, "Father, I understand that we're supposed to be baptized by immersing. What does our church say about that?"

L-47 "Why, it says that--that we're to be sprinkled." If that church is his ultimate, that settles it. All strife is over; the church said so, and that's all.

L-48   What if the... if a Baptist brother heard us say that we believe in being baptized by "immersing"? He'd say, "I believe that."
"And in the Name of 'Jesus Christ.'"
Now, this--this member of the church goes back to the pastor and says, "Pastor, I heard a fellow say to me that we should be baptized by immersing, all right, but in the Name of 'Jesus Christ.'"

L-49 "Well," he'd say, "now, let us see. Why, here the book says that we're to be baptized using 'Father, Son, Holy Ghost.'" If that church is the ultimate, that settles it. He don't care about what anything else says; that's his ultimate.

L-50   Well, every denomination is an ultimate to their believers.
But, to me, and to the ones that I hope that I'm leading to Christ, and by Christ, the Bible is our ultimate. No matter... Cause, God said, "Let every man's word be a lie, and Mine Truth." And I believe that the Bible is God's ultimate. No matter what anyone else says; It's the ultimate.
The Bible is not a book of systems. No, sir. It is not a book of systems, nor a code of morals. The Bible is not a book of systems, so many systems, and so forth. No, sir. It is not a book of morals. No, sir. It is not. Nor is It a book of history, altogether. Or, neither is It a book of theology. For, It is the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Now if you'd like to read that, you who have your papers, marking it down, that's Revelations 1:1 to 3, as, the Bible is "the Revelation of Jesus Christ."


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