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wanting to see us suffer. God
doesn't want us to suffer. God
doesn't have hate. He has
LOVE. He hates evil. He hates
wrong things, wrongdoing; but
He doesn't hate people.
But then Christ, even after he
had QUALIFIED, after he had
CONQUERED Satan, He went
up to HEAVEN at the RIGHT
HAND OF GOD as our HIGH
PRIEST. WHY? WHY IS GOD
WAITING for SIX THOUSAND
YEARS before He gets rid of
Satan and before He estab-
lishes everything on the earth?
WHY? Because man had to
learn, and man has not learned
yet by 6,000 years of man's
going the wrong way that his
way of life is wrong.
I was just saying to another
minister this morning: Well,
what's wrong with the way the
world is living? Why isn't
trying to get the best of every-
thing right? When it's good for
you, look how much more you
get when you try to get every-
thing, take it away from the
other. If the other man suffers,
is the life of business today."
There's what businessmen
believe, competition. In sports,
everything is competition.
"Let's get the competition
going. We want compe-
tition." Satan wants
competition. Satan is
the number one com-
petitor.
COMPETITION
VS COOPERA-
TION
The world still thinks
competition is a better
way than cooperation.
Now God's law is based
on cooperation. Satan's
law is based on compe-
tition, and yet some of you
right here still think you like
competition. How about it?
God knew that if humans did
not have time for
generation after
generation to
LEARN THE
LESSONS -- TO
LET THEM GO
THE WAY THEY
WANT TO, AND
LET THEM
SUFFER -- AND
LET THEM FIND
OUT THE
RESULT OF
THEIR WAYS,
they would never
believe it.
I tell you, if God
had corrected
things in Adam's
time and before
other children
were born, and fixed it all up
for Adam, and let Christ come
and pay his debt for him and
say, "Now Adam, it's alright,
you go right on." -- they would
always have believed Satan's
way is better. But, let me tell
you, after 6,000 years ... and
even then, they're going to
have to see in a 1,000 years
Millennium of living to prove
that God's way is better, people
would never believe it.
Now God has known what He
is doing. He is reproducing
Himself in us so we can be
stamped with His character,
even as Jesus was. And His
character is knowing that His
law is a way of life, and that is
the right way, and that no
other way is right. And how
many of us have been living in
the way of this world, and
going the way of this world
and doing the things of this
world? (The practices of this
world, the games, the sports,
the social life, the amusements
of this world.) How many of us
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