49. GOD'S WAY vs. MAN'S WAY
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For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the Earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts (Isa.55:8,9).
1. As long as we let God run this outfit, we're bound to win, even when we look like we're losing! But if you or I try to run it, we're bound to lose, even when we look like we're winning!
2. You just can't beat the Lord at His Own game!
3. Man makes things in vain for our destruction, but God makes things for our good!
4. The World says anything you cannot understand is crazy!--Is it crazy to believe in God and in love, just because you can't understand them?
5. Before a national crisis there comes a sharper and sharper division between the wicked and the righteous. The righteous see it coming and get more righteous, the wicked don't see it coming and get more wicked! Evil men get worse and worse and good men better and better!
6. Everybody's a fool for something--thank God we can be fools for Christ's sake! (1Cor.4:10)
7. If you think His yoke is tough or His job is hard, Jesus said, "My yoke is easy, My burden is light"!--Meaning compared to the way of the transgressor, which is really hard! (Mt.11:30)
8. The World's in a hell of a mess, but everything is beautiful for us!
9. We're only on God's side and whatever side He's on at the moment--that's the right side of any question.
10. Covet not this world's vain riches,
That so rapidly decay,
Seek to gain the heavenly treasures,
That will never pass away.
11. A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be large enough for our needs.
12. God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
13. We can't even do things that look like they are good and reasonable and common sense things we think we ought to do, unless we're sure it's God's will! We're in a dangerous business, and we have got to stay close to the Lord and follow the Lord and make sure it's God's will, not just rest on the arm of flesh and natural reasoning, like Saul did.
14. The Difficult can be done immediately; the impossible takes a little longer.
15. You're off base if you're off Jesus!
16. Where happiness is madness, 'tis wisdom in disguise.
Where sanity is sadness, 'tis folly to be wise!
17. God never loses--eventually He always wins somehow!
18. If foolishness is gladness, 'tis folly to be wise!
If sanity is sadness, it makes my brain capsize!
19. When you talk about love and the Lord and the real values of life, people begin to realise how worthless everything else is.
20. God made the rules, and He can break'm if He wants to and if it suits His purpose.
21. You may be on the bottom of the World's list, but you certainly are on the top of God's list.
22. The Lord has never been in favour of majority rule, because the majority are of the Devil and follow Satan and are always wrong!
23. God is not in favour of democracy at all!--Because the righteous are always in the minority.
24. God is always for minority rule of the righteous over the wicked majority.
25. In God's eyes, that which is most is that which is least. (Lk.16:15)
26. That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
27. Don't try to pour God into a mold and say He always has to use the same methods.
28. To hell with the proper way!...The proper way is of man!
29. The unexpected and the improper, the unconventional and untraditional, the unorthodox and unceremonious, contrary to man's natural expectation--this is the way God usually works!
30. God loves to do things contrary to the way we think He ought to do them!
31. Sometimes God's way up is down--usually, in fact!
32. Man prides himself in what he thinks are going to be his everlasting works, but their end is always the same--the grave of oblivion, monstrous reminders of man's transitory tenure against his puny efforts to eternalize himself without God!
33. If your choice, made according to natural expectations, is incorrect as far as He's concerned, He can change your mind and change your course and change your target, and change your goal according to what He knows is best, for after all, only God knows!
34. "This land (the U.S.A.) which ye call light, I call darkness!"
35. The natural and normal and perfectly legitimate with the Lord is often illegitimate with the System.
36. The most logical thing is not always God's way. He does the unusual, the supernatural, the miraculous, contrary to natural expectation.
37. God doesn't make mistakes, even when they look like it to us.
38. God gets some of His greatest victories out of seeming defeats!
39. The Devil has really got the World brainwashed! He's even got the World brainwashed to the point where his kind of righteousness, what the World thinks is righteousness, is just the opposite of God's ideas of righteousness.
40. What changed them that changed the World?--When they heard the voice of God teaching them things that were completely contrary to what was in the valley!
41. The right answer might be just the opposite of what our natural mind thinks.
42. Some people are fighting their way to Hell in spite of everything God can do to stop them! But we're chugging our way to Heaven in spite of everything the Devil can do to stop us!
43. Our disorganisation is sometimes God's organisation!
44. I think we're probably going to be a little surprised one of these days when we get on the other side, at the difference between the World's standards and God's standards--what God considers evil, and what the Devil has taught the World to call evil.
45. The Lord knows what He's doing, even if we don't know what we're doing!
46. God's idea of goodness is Godliness--a sinner who knows he needs God.
47. The Lord always uses things somehow, even things you don't expect him to--including you--and me!
48. God loves to do things contrary to natural expectation, because that takes a miracle and that shows it's God, and not man!
49. God's way up is down!--Down to the defeat of self and self-righteousness--up to the victory of the cross and death to self for others!
50. If you value the praise of man you'd better catch it quick while it's passing, `cause it's soon gone! Only God remembers!
51. Watch out that your "improvements" to make something more attractive in your own eyes don't weaken the original structure.
52. Everybody is somebody's fool!--We're fools for Christ's sake!--Whose fool are you?
53. This is a dictatorship, not a democracy! We don't allow freedom for the Devil or his lies and his doctrines!
54. Man proposes but God disposes.
55. It takes the impossible to create a miracle!
56. The World says seeing is believing, but we know believing is seeing.
57. God is our defence, not the System.
58. We have nothing but God, but we'll get a lot further with only God than we'll ever get with trying to ride the back of the System like the Whore and reap the benefits and its delicacies and its favours because we compromise and comply with it like the churches--soon to be destroyed! (Rev.17 & 18)
59. Place worship is man worship--thing worship--temple worship--now an abomination to God!
60. God's children are brainwashed by the Lord--the Devil's are brain-polluted by the System.
61. When any courageous iconoclast becomes so presumptuous as to dare to smash the idols of the generally accepted and practiced and so-called normal psychological behavior of this vast and wrongful majority who justify themselves by comparing themselves with themselves--if some brave pioneer of the spirit or of the flesh or of science is so fool-hardy as to even suggest that this vast and unsilent majority of accepted society could possibly be wrong on some things, he is immediately hooted down as a maniac, denounced as demented, persecuted as a departurist and even often condemned as a criminal, hanged as a heretic or crucified as a menace to society!
62. We are the extremists of today but we're extremely successful where the System has failed! We're the impossible people of today, but we're working miracles in the lives of youth, in the face of the System's flat failures!
63. What we call perfect and what God calls perfect can be two different things. God took a man who was a murderer and made him the Apostle Paul. He took a woman who was one of the biggest harlots in town and made her one of His favourite disciples. So God's idea of perfection is often quite different from the church's idea of perfection or even the law's idea of perfection. God's idea of perfection is Love!
64. There are no such things as natural forces and causes which are not designed by God, because it's all God's Creation and under His control, and nothing can happen except by His Will and His design, or to say the least, His permission.
65. Sometimes I think God does far-out and unorthodox, unconventional, untraditional and very revolutionary as well as seemingly illegal things, just to test our faith and see if we'll still believe, no matter what, like Job did!
66. God's ways are not our ways and His thoughts are not our thoughts and He takes the weakest things to confound the mighty and the foolish things to bring to nought the wisdom of the wise, and often works in a very mysterious way the wonders of His Love to perform.
67. God's idea of saintliness is not sinless perfection, self-righteousness. It's a sinner saved by grace, a sinner who has no perfection, no righteousness of his own at all, but is totally dependent on the grace and the love and the mercy of God by faith. These are the only saints there are--there are no others.
68. Man's extremity is God's opportunity, and God gets His greatest victories out of seeming defeats.
69. The works of God are good and not evil. They may seem evil, look evil and appear to some people to be evil, but even so-called evil is good if God is in it.
70. Follow the leading of the Lord, not any set system. Don't set for yourself any set regimen or set system or itinerary or schedule that you can't break whenever one of God's set-ups appears.
71. God does not rule through the people, He normally rules through one man, an appointed Elder or an appointed Bishop or an appointed Apostle or an appointed Prophet or an appointed Judge or an appointed King, but never through the people. God selects the leaders and He places them over the people and the people have nothing whatsoever to do with the government or the ruling of a nation but to follow God's appointed rulers.
72. The World is far from being overcrowded! It's not even all developed, it's not even all tilled and planted! They could feed billions more people on the Earth even as it is now! That's a big bunch of the Devil's lies that you've got to cut down the population because you can't feed'm all!--The Devil's own tricks to try to advocate birth control and murderous abortions!
73. It' a terrible thing to measure God by man!
74. God likes to do thing differently and in many ways that to us seem downright ridiculous, outlandishly funny, seemingly impossible, and outright laughable, just to show His power, that He's not bound by conventions, traditions, customs, the System, or any kind of impossibilities!
(See also No. A, E, M, 6, 7, 12, 23, 35, 45, 57, 117, 122, 179A, 309B, 330C, 368, 373, 376, 568, 599 ,601, 609, 624, 647, 736, 800, 865, 935, 981, 996, 1027, 1036, 1332.)
75. ISA.16:7 But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
76. PSA.108:12 Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
77. PSA.118:8,9 It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes.
78. PRO.3:7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil.
79. PRO.4:18,19 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. The way of the wicked is as darkness; they know not at what they stumble.
80. PRO.14:12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
81. PRO.16:2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits.
82. PRO.20:24 Man's goings are of the Lord; how can a man then understand his own way?
83. ISA.55:8,9 For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith the Lord. For as the Heavens are higher than the Earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.
84. JER.27:5,6 I have made the Earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto Me. And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him.
85 EZE.17:24 All the trees of the field shall know that I the Lord have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the Lord have spoken and have done it.
86. MAT.11:25 At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank Thee, O Father, Lord of Heaven and Earth, because Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.
87. MAR.10:27 And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.
88. LUK.1:52 He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.
89. LUK.16:15 Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
90. JOH.7:24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgement.
91. ACT.5:38,39 And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
92. ROM.11:33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out!
93. ROM.12:21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
94. 1CO.1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
95. 1CO.1:21 For after that in the wisdom of God the World by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
96. 1CO.1:25-29 The foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the World to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the World to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the World, and things which are despised hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in His presence.
97. 1CO.2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
98. JAM.2:5 Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this World rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which He hath promised to them that love Him?
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