h; to strengthen themselves in the
strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt! Therefore
shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the
shadow of Egypt your confusion." In one place He says, "Woe," and in
another place He says, "Cursed be the man." It is a terrible thing for
man to put faith in man. Then Psalm cxlvi. 3: "Put not your trust in
princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. His breath
goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts
perish. Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose
hope is in the Lord his God." Now here we are told very plainly by God
that we are not to put our trust in this man or that man--not to lean
upon an arm of flesh. All the ministers in the world and all the
potentates in the church put together cannot save one soul. It is
thoroughly impossible. It is the Lord that can save, and the Lord
alone; therefore we want to get our eyes away from man, from the
church, and right straight up to the man Christ Jesus. We read in Mark
xi. 22 whom we are to believe in. Christ says--and how sweet it
sounds--"Have faith in God." I never saw a man or woman in my life
that had faith in God who was confounded, I do not care what their
troubles or trials were. Have faith in God, and not in man.

THE GREAT DELUSION OF OUR DAY.

We are living in very strange days. Some people tell us it does not
make any difference what a man believes if he is only sincere. One
church is just as good as another if you are only sincere. I do not
believe any greater delusion ever came out of the pit of hell than
that. It is ruining more souls at the present time than anything else.
I never read of any men more sincere or more earnest than those men at
Mount Carmel, those false prophets. They were terribly in earnest.
Some people say, "Why, if these men are holding, as you say, error,
why should they be so in earnest?" Those prophets of Baal were the
most earnest men I ever read of. You do not read of men getting so in
earnest now that they take knives and cut themselves. Look at them
leaping upon their altars; hear their cry, "O Baal! O Baal!" We never
heard that kind of prayer on this platform. They acted like madmen.
They were terribly in earnest, yet did God hear their cry? They were
all slain. "I believe one religion is just as good as another, if you
are only sincere in what you believe." It is one of the devil's lies.

HAVE FAITH I