No, not justly censured, any more than I would censure the Pope when I say of the Pope that he does not know. No one can control the purse strings of a portfolio that runs into something like $50 billion and give attention to the Spirit. Ben-Gurion is here raising money. He’s not here telling the story of Christ or the story of Abraham; he’s over here to raise millions for the state of Israel. Well, if that is my purpose, I am not giving my undivided attention to Christ. I can quote the Bible as my sister’s maid, her name is [...]. And she loves to tell me…I take a drink and she always wants to relate it to the Bible, she said, “You know, Mr. Neville, what they say in the Bible about…” then she couldn’t quote it. I said, “You mean the dog who returns to its vomit?” If perchance it makes you vomit and you return, or if you get sick by it and the doctors tell you, “Give it up!” and you go back to drink, you know what happens. I had to show her the passage and the page. Well, she would know all about it, but she didn’t know the meaning. And when I would say to her, “You know that food will not commend you to God, [...], you’re no better off if you do not eat and no worse off if you do.” “Where is that, Mr. Neville?” “Well, go and you’ll find it. You’ll find it in the Bible in Corinthians.” She was so amazed that one who drinks and eats meat, who lives a normal life, a full life, knows her Bible with her…but not as she knows it. Because to her, going to church all day on Sunday and any other extra hours that is religion. But to be all dressed up in purple robes made with human hands is not the purple robes of which I speak. And to put on the scarlet robes and just parade before the TV set when the current is on, all in brilliant scarlet robes, and mouth all kinds of words, is not wearing the scarlet robe. Would he tonight give his life for a friend if the friend was in need? As we told the story last week…when the mother willingly volunteered to give her kidney for her daughter who needed a kidney, she volunteered, without price, without money. She was not only wearing the scarlet robe of self-sacrifice, but the blue robe of truth because she meant it. Put the two together, red plus blue, and you get purple. She was wearing the purple robe. Yet, she comes here in a simple beige suit. Goodnight.876 ¶40

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