<TITLE>17. Par 64-68</TITLE>L-64 And that's what I think about the churches today, brethren, we've got a great, big bunch of deacons and so forth who don't know nothing about God till we got to pat them on the back. And because they're this and that, we put them in the church and heads and everything like that. We've got a nest full of rotten eggs.
What we need is somebody in contact with Jesus Christ. It's time to dump the nest out and get started again. That's right. Just turn your nest upside down and get somebody in there that's been in contact with the Maker, Jesus Christ, who believes that God lives. Hallelujah.
You're going to call me holy-roller anyhow, so you might as well get started right now. See? Yes, sir. What I mean today, that we need Life in the Church, Eternal Life.
Men and women if you get men and women borned again, why, you talk about a healing campaign in your church. They say, "Hum, don't believe in that old kind of stuff." Sure, he can't. He's an old rotten egg. Yes, sir.

L-65 First think you know these people set around there, and most of the members... I'm--I'm preaching... Listen, brother, I got to answer before God someday. That's right.
Not long ago, you holiness people, how you used to do your... take your women out here, how they would dress.
Here not long ago a fellow. I had a man driving a truck. He smoked cigarettes, and a man said to me, said, "Well, you can't have that around us holiness people."
I said, "The man's a good man. He don't claim to be a Christian, and I'm just letting him drive one of them trucks out there."
Said, "Well, brother, you can't do that." Said, "That man smokes cigarettes."
And the very same day in California, in my meeting, they brought a... He says, "I want you to meet our District Presbyter."
I said, "How do you do, sir. I'm glad to meet you, brother."
He said, "Here's my wife. I want you to meet..."

L-66 And brother... Now, women, don't let this hurt you. See? But she was painted like I don't know what, two big earrings hanging way down like, like the devil was using her neck for a saddle and them for stirrups and setting up there with her clothes on that looked like everything.
And I said, "Do you mean that's that preacher's wife?"
He said, "Yes."
And I said, "Is--is she a saint?"
Said, "Yes."
I said, "She looks like a hain't to me, instead of a saint," setting there like that.

L-67 It's a shame. You've let down the bars, brother and sister. That's exactly what you got. You got starch in the church. You ought to come back to the old fashion Gospel again that cleans men up. Amen.
Here's a little one for you. Let me tell you, sisters, and I've always had my opinion of women that... Today I see where that ninety-eight percent, medical claims, of cancer of the throat and lungs comes from cigarette smokers, and women smoke cigarettes. There's more men has lung cancer and throat cancer, but the women's begin to get it now, 'cause it takes about twenty years for it to develop.

L-68 They taken seven rats and put them in a cage in St. Louis, Missouri, give them seven cigarette smokes a day, and at the end of the year every--all seven of them had cancer. Why, it's a disgrace, and ninety percent of the church members today smoke cigarettes. That's right. It's a disgrace. Yes, sir.
And if the women, if you only realized how many hundreds of billions of dollars each year that women spend in America for manicure, every what you put on your lap--lips. I don't know what the stuff is. Anyhow, how many millions of dollars that these people make of that stuff they put on their face and makeup like that...
And when poor little kids over yonder and missionaries setting here dormant because they can't go. They ain't money enough to go on. God will make you answer for it at the day of judgment. That's right. It's the truth.


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