<TITLE>09. Par 31-33</TITLE>L-31 Now, "heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, and despisers of those that are good, having a form of godliness..." not church...?... The people go to church, Sunday school, confession: "Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof, from such turn away." Is that what the Bible says?
Now, remember, there was emphasis put on that. The Spirit speaks expressingly, that in the latter days, these days. Express time of the--that prophecy to be fulfilled is now in the latter days. There we are. We're here.
"Having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof; from such, turn away. For this is the sort that goes from house to house and leads silly women, laden away with divers lusts:" Sewing circles, and kitchen circles, and soup suppers.
Now, I--I hope that don't hurt any of you. But brothers, when it comes to a time at my Tabernacle, which I may have to return someday, but if it gets to the time that we have to boil chickens and sell it for fifty cents a plate to pay the preacher, I'll quit preaching. That's exactly right.
And that means sewing circles where they stitch and sew, and sew-and-sew, and talk about Miss. So-and-so. That's--that's about the way it ends up. That's right.

L-32 When I was a meter reader, I went into a basement where they was having some kind of a thing like that. And the jokes that a drunken sailor wouldn't tell, them women were telling up there. They didn't know I was a preacher. I was reading the meter. And I went up and knocked on the door. And they come to the door, and all of them in there smoking cigarettes and going on. I said, "Ladies, the..." I said, "I may get fired for this, but all right." I said, "Do you mean to tell me that you all are here in a religious worship, when I heard some of you repeat a prayer awhile ago?"
Said, "This is our circle sewing something."
I said "And the jokes that you're telling, aren't..."
She said, "You're supposed to be reading the meter."
I said, "I'm a Gospel preacher. And I'm on my Father's business all the time." That's right. I said...
And I knelt down in the room and had prayer in the room, and that broke up that sew-and-sew circle after that. That's right. And I asked God to save that bunch of sinners. That's--that's right. I don't know whether it had any effect or not; I may have to wait until eternity, but I did my part. Right.
Oh, my. "Having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof, from such, turn away." Get away from it. Stay away from it. Get out to God, and pray through to God, and stay right with God. Live for God.

L-33 I--I... Usually in my services... Anybody's been in other services know; I never speak to people like this. It's not... But I feel the time has come, friends, when something's got to be said. See see? If God has performed these things, and then if God is the--is--it's true, we know He is, and can perform these things, the Holy Spirit's telling me to say these things. I don't know why is to say these things.
And friends, turn away from your ways of just halfway Chri--there is no halfway Christians. You're just fooling yourself. See? You're--you're either a Christian or a sinner. You never... As I said, you never did see a drunk sober man. You're either drunk or sober. Did you ever see a black white bird? Either black or white. See? And you're either right with God or wrong with God. That's right.
And the only way you can be right with God is being borned again. Jesus said, "Except a man be borned again, he can't see the Kingdom of God." No matter what he's done, how many good deeds he's done; he's got to be borned again. Then when he's borned again, he can understand what it's all about. Now, God bless you, ever keep you is my prayer.


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