<TITLE>07. Par 56-68</TITLE>L-56   You've got to face one thing, Eternal Life, and there is only one Person Who can give That to you. Mama can't give It to you. Papa can't give It to you. Your pastor can't give It to you. Your leader here can't give It to you. Everybody that gets Eternal Life has got to come to Jesus Christ. He is the only One Who can give That part.

L-57 Your teacher can give you an education, she can teach you; you have to learn it. Your--your mother can teach you to walk; you have to learn to walk. Your father can teach you how to be a businessman, or what; you have to learn that. But only Jesus can give you Eternal Life. See?

L-58 Your priest, your leader, or so forth, can teach you your religion, you can learn the Message that we are trying to teach, but still that won't give you Eternal Life. You've got to accept the Person, Jesus Christ. You understand that, all of you? Got to accept the Person, Jesus Christ, to have Eternal Life. Now, but sometimes other leadership gets so much influence on us till we don't know what to do then when that--that time comes.

L-59   Now, what a fatal thing it is to reject the leadership to Eternal Life, because, see, that's Life that never can end. Now, the education, that's fine, that'll help us here. Business, that's fine. Money, that's fine. Be a good boy and girl, that's fine. But, you see, when life is finished here, that's all. You understand? You adults understand? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] See, that's all. But then we've got to accept Jesus Christ, for Eternal Life. Jesus alone can lead you to That.

L-60 And though, see, this young man had achieved all these things in school, and by his parents and everything, he--he lost the greatest thing that he could have had, the leadership of the Holy Spirit, for Jesus said, "Come, follow Me."

L-61   And you girls that's just getting out of school, you graduate probably, some of you, pretty soon, and you young boys; the greatest leadership there is is Jesus Christ, for that's the Leadership to Eternal Life. Now, this Leadership confronts every human being, they are given the opportunity to choose.

L-62 And that's one great thing we have in life, is to choose. Someday... You know, papa and mama, they chose to have a nice little boy and girl, like you--you all are.

L-63 Then, you--you have a right, after a while, to choose whether you want to learn from the teacher, or not. The teacher can teach you, but you can just be a--a little bad boy, you just won't learn; a little, bad girl, won't listen at all. See, you--you have a choice to do that, yet you're little.
And mother say, "Did you get A's on your report card?"
"No, I got very poor." See, now you can...

L-64 Mother say, "Now you have to study." And you have to do that then, keep studying like mother told you, like daddy told you. See, you have to study.

L-65 But you have a choice, you can do it or not do it. You can say, "I don't want to." See, you have a choice.

L-66   After a while, you'll have a choice of what girl you are going to marry, what boy you're going to marry.

L-67 You have a choice everywhere in life. And then you've got a choice, again, to whether you want to live after this life; or just be a good, popular person, a movie star, or a dancer, or something another.

L-68 And look at these little girls here with that pretty voice, a while ago, singing. That child had to cultivate that voice, and she'd be an opera singer, or some singer. I hear these little boys' voices, these boys, you could be like an Elvis Presley, selling your birthright. See, you don't want that. See, it's a talent God gave you, and you've got to choose who, where you're going to use that talent, for God, or whether you're going to use it for the Devil. See?


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