<TITLE>13. Par 151-161</TITLE>L-151   Though he had achieved, this young fellow... He had achieved all good things. In school, been fine. As a good boy, no doubt, he had been good. As a real father... In listening to his daddy in business, he had been a good--a good boy. Good to his parents. He had been loyal to his priest. He had been loyal to his church. He had been loyal to the commandments of God. But he lost the greatest thing, and the rest of them didn't mean very much to him when he turned down the leadership of Eternal Life, Jesus Christ.

L-152 Notice! This leadership confronts every one of us today, the same thing as it did that young man, we... no matter how religious we are. You may be Catholic, you may be Baptist, Methodist, or you may be Pentecostals, or whatever you are, this same thing confronts you tonight: Eternal Life, that's, acceptance of Jesus Christ. We are given this opportunity.

L-153   Sometime in life we have to confront the thing just like this young man did, because you are a mortal being and you are given the--you are given the opportunity of choice. You have a choice. God made it so you can choose. If He put Adam and Eve on free moral agency so they could choose, and then they made the wrong choice, and, see, He can do no more to you than He did to them. He's got to put you the same thing so you can choose or reject.
You have a choice. Let's look at some of them:

L-154 You have a choice, as a young man, whether you're going to have an education or not. You have that choice. You can want to be "just not have it," you can just refuse it.

L-155 You have a choice of your conduct. I'm going to hurt just a little bit here. See? You can go out and let your hair grow down and be a beatle or some of these ignoramuses.

L-156 Or you women, you can look like a--a decent human being or you can be one of these weird creatures that we have out there, them blued eyes. And water-head haircuts and things, they're completely against the Word of God, which is absolutely contrary; not even offer... couldn't offer a prayer to be accepted. That's the Truth. Exactly right. That's what the Bible said.

L-157 But what's happened to you, church? You've seen so much television, so much things of the world, it's so easy for your old Adam nature to drift into that, to act like the rest of them.

L-158   May I repeat this again! In the kosher, in the offering of the--the--the atonement in the days of Moses, when Moses brought the children out, there was to be seven days that there was to be no leaven among the people. Anyone knows that. In Exodus, "No leaven shall be found in your camp at all, seven days." That seven days represented the full "seven church ages." See?

L-159 "No leaven." Now, what is that? No creed, no world. Jesus said, "If you love the world or the things of the world, the love of God's not even in you." See? And we're trying to mix that; you can't do it! You've got to come to one thing to believe: you're either going to believe God, you're going to believe your church, you're going to believe the world. You--you cannot mix it together. And you can't hold to them old things that the other church before you did. You've got to take the Message of the hour.

L-160   He said, "What was left over, don't let it stay till morning (to come into this other age), burn it with fire; be destroyed." That the age that you're living in, the Message of this age, It's got to be brought out of the Scriptures and vindicated and proved by God that it's God doing so. Then you either receive That or reject It. That's Eternal Life, leadership of the Holy Spirit, leading His Church.

L-161 We could stay on that a long time, but let's move, just keep moving along.


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