My dear, everyone is going to come to the Father through the Perfect Man, known as the Lord Jesus Christ. It’s a Pattern Man. Don’t look upon Jesus as a man, but the Pattern Man; and that pattern either will be followed, or he will never find the Father, for the Father’s only son is David, and it isn’t Buddha, and it isn’t Krishna; and he isn’t any other name in the world. That son is David. He either comes through that channel or he doesn’t find the Father, for David can’t call anyone but God, Father. And he isn’t going to call Buddha father, Krishna father, or anyone else. He’s going to call the One whose name is “I Am.” And so, you will come through the one Pattern. “No one comes unto the Father, except by me. I am the way, I am the truth, I am the life.” It’s the true way, the living way and the only way. And these things will erupt within you. So they come, giving me all kinds of ways to go to God − some try to sell me the idea of diets to go to God. Stop eating meat, all right, then you will purify yourself, and you will go to God. Stop doing this − don’t wear red anymore because that’s a bad color. It disagrees with the spirit, they’ll say. One lady would only wear a certain color because it was becoming to her, someone told her. So she made it a law – like some divine revelation. You couldn’t wear red; you couldn’t eat onions. Well, can you imagine cooking without onions? Just imagine having to eat without a piece of garlic − without onions. Well now, she can’t wear red and God has splattered red all over the skies. See a sunset − what a beautiful picture! A sunset − that mass of red! Go into any garden and see red. And God does with all the colors what the artist can’t do, he blends all the colors into one flower, and it’s beautiful. Well, we can’t put red with this, and so-and-so with that, so they have all these little –isms. Yet the Bible warns you against this. When Peter said, “I cannot eat the unclean thing, he fell into a trance and a sheep came down bearing all manner of food, and the Lord said to him in a vision, That which I have cleansed, I have cleansed. Slay and eat.” So, they can’t eat this, they can’t eat that. If it disagrees with you, all well and good, but don’t say it is unspiritual. He made everything for the food of man. Someone said, “Why do you take a drink? You are a man, and you are supposed to be a man “born from above” and you take a drink.” I said, “Because I enjoy it.” “But,” he said, “that’s not spiritual.” I said, “Who is to tell me what is spiritual? Didn’t God make it?” Who on earth made alcohol? Didn’t He make it in the grain and then give man the intelligence to extract it? Didn’t He make it in the grape, and then give man the intelligence to take it out? And you tell me not to exercise the palate that He gave me? Oh, I can indulge; I can overdo anything in this world. There isn’t a thing that one eats that is good for him that he cannot go to the extreme and make it unwholesome for him. I suppose that almost everything is good in itself, but not excessively, and see if it is. So that goes for everything in this world. Learn to discriminate. I must become discriminating in all my thoughts in this world; but don’t tell me that there are taboos on things that God made. He made everything for man, and He made man for His own satisfaction. Well, the time is up.708 ¶67