<TITLE>18. Par 212-221</TITLE>L-212   He was a great success. He was a great success here in this life. Certainly. We find him where we notice... Then we find this fellow, that he went... We follow him a little bit, and we see he got a great successful. And we follow him through the Bible. We notice that he--he... We find him a rich man. He's got such great big places, he was entertaining the judge and the mayor of the city, or whatmore. He's up on top of his roof, and he has great banquets; and plenty of waitresses, and women, girls, and everything else, around him. And there's a beggar laying at the gate, named Lazarus. He sweeps the crumbs off to him. We know the story. The next thing, he goes on successful, just like the churches today are getting.

L-213 A businessman setting here, telling me, "Right here in California, that the church has to tell the labor union what to do." See, it's coming church and state again. It's right on you. You see, you're right in there, and you take the mark of the beast not knowing it.

L-214   If you ever bought one of my tapes, get this when I get it, when I get home, The Trail Of The Serpent; and you'll see where it's at, see where this ends up at. Going home now to speak, if the Lord willing. It's about four hours, so I couldn't keep it at one of the meeting like this. I have to go up there where the church suffers with me so long, patiently. Notice. But now you can listen at the tape sometime in your home.

L-215   Notice this, now we find out that he was a great success. Then we find him later till he was a greater success, until he said, "I have got so much!" Boy, he'd a-made a real genuine guy of this day. Wouldn't he? "Even my barns has swelled out, they're bursting. And I've got so much till I said, 'Oh, soul, take your rest.'"

L-216 But, what he done at the beginning, he rejected the leadership of Jesus Christ. His church, his intelligence, his education, and all, had lead him to a success. All the Jews loved him. He give to them, he helped them, he might have done this, that, or the other. But, you see, he rejected the--the--the leadership of Jesus Christ, the Eternal Life. And that... The Bible said, He said, "Thou fool, tonight your soul is required."

L-217 And now we find him (the next place) in hell; lifting up his eyes and seeing that beggar, that he turned out the street, in the bosoms of Abraham. What a fatal mistake! How that the churches had--had--had--had--had been all right in the way that they went, but they still hadn't had Eternal Life.

L-218   Reminds me of a sermon I preached here not long ago, A Thinking Man's Filter. You might have had it. I was going, walking through the woods, I was squirrel hunting (this fall) and I looked down. And, of course, I can't call the cigarette company. You know it. And there laid a--a cigarette pack laying there. And I just passed by it, looking for... in the woods. And I seen that package laying there, and I looked back again, it said, "A thinking man's filter, a smoking man's taste." I just started walking on through the woods.

L-219 And Holy Spirit said, "Turn and pick that up."

L-220 I reached down and picked it up, "A thinking man's filter, a smoking man's taste." I thought "American firm here, selling death under disguisement, to their own American citizens." A thinking man's filter? You... And a smoking man's taste?

L-221   I was at the World Fair, with Yul Bryan... Brynner, and them up there, when he giving all that test. And how he put one cigarette and drawed the... across a marble and took the... Wiped up the nicotine and put it on a rat's back, a white rat, and in seven days he was so full of cancer he couldn't walk. And they said, "You know, they say a 'filter,'" said, "it's a gimmick, sells more cigarettes."


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