<TITLE>05. Par 31-40</TITLE>L-31 And he had been a--a successful young man, too, because, look, he was already rich. And he was just a--a young man, maybe eighteen years old, just out of high school, and he was rich. Now, you see, he had the right kind of a teacher to teach him to walk right. And he had a right kind of a teacher, his father; till even at yet a young man and he was--he was rich in money, he had made him a lot of money. He might have been a real... He was a ruler, even at that age, very successful. See? And now he had a--a teacher that had taught him, taught him the right thing, how he would. He had his education.

L-32 And then another teacher this young man had had, which that depends on how you're raised up, but this young man had a religious teaching in his home.

L-33   Now, some children, did you know there is a lot of little children that don't have any religious teaching at home? Their father and mother don't believe in God. And their father and mother, drink, smoke, fight, and run out, at one another, at night, and things, and don't cook their little boy's and girl's suppers, and things. Aren't you glad you got a real good Christian father and mother? Now, when you have children, don't you want to be the same kind of a father and mother as your father and mother is? See? Now, but that's all good.

L-34   Now, this young man had had, and he had a religious teaching. See, that was far beyond what some of them had, 'cause they don't have religious teaching. But this young man had had religious teaching, because, see, because he said he kept the Commandments since he was a boy.

L-35 Now you all got good religious teachers, too, each one of you. And you little teen-age girls and boys, you all had good teachers, your father and mother here in this camp, got everything that you... every potential that you know, that's possible, for you to make a real good man and woman, a servant to God.

L-36 Because, remember, you're going to die someday, or either be translated into Heaven. And if you die before His Coming, you will be raptured first. Did you know that? Did you know those who are dead... If mama and papa dies before you do, and Jesus doesn't come in our generation, do you know these, papa and mama, will come forth first, glorified, before you? See? The trumpet of God shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall rise first, and then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up with them. We'll be changed like that. We've got to remember, that's the main thing in life. You understand now? That's the main thing in life, we got to do, is to get ready to meet God.

L-37   Now, just religion won't work. See, this one young ruler here, he said, "Good Master..." Now remember, before I say it. He had been taught to walk right. He had a good education. He had been taught business. And was rich, and was a ruler, and had religion. But he was confronted with another problem, and it confronts all of us, Eternal Life. Religion doesn't give us Eternal Life. Religious, is a covering, but it don't give us Eternal Life. And yet, him taught with the best teachers there was, he was yet lacking something. And the young man knew it, because he said, "Good Master, what can I do to inherit Eternal Life?"

L-38 Now, you, you believe Jesus is God, don't you? So He knew the thoughts of the young man, so He said, "Keep the Commandments." He went right back to his religion, to see what he would say about his religion. He said now, in other words, "Keep your religion."

L-39 He said, "I have did this, since a boy," little boys like you. "My mama and papa, and my priest, taught me religion. But I know, in my religion, that I still don't have Eternal Life." See?

L-40   You can be good. Don't steal. Don't smoke. Don't lie. Don't lie to papa and mama. Don't tell that first lie, 'cause, one tell one, then it's easy to tell another one, see. But you mustn't do that. Don't tell the first one.


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