<TITLE>05. Par 19-22</TITLE>L-19 A few minutes ago I seen some woman... I was coming in; everybody was praying at one time. And I seen a man shake his head and say...
I said, "All right, that's Scripture."
It's a whole lot better than one of these old cold formal moth-eaten something or another standing around.
I said, taking the Bible, "They played--prayed with one accord until the building was shook where they was assembled together." I said, "They got out on the street and staggered like a bunch of drunk men, till even they said they was drunk."

L-20 And now listen friends, and to you women, the blessed virgin Mary was with that bunch of drunk people on the Spirit. And if God wouldn't let the mother of God come into the--heaven without receiving the baptism of the Holy Ghost and acting like that, do you think you'll get there anything short of that?
Now, let's lay it down flat. Don't try to say virgin Mary wasn't up there; she was. And she acted just like the rest of them.
And don't you think because your name's on a book, and you can drive an automobile and--and run around with a nice hat on, and a lot of clothes, and dress your children nice, that means, or belong to the church that you're going in. You're going to get the same thing or you're out. That's right. Now, I don't know nobody, and I only know Jesus Christ. And I'm responsible and have to answer at the day of judgment for what I speak and say.

L-21 Now, God, in the beginning when Adam and Eve... Man has always tried to prepare himself. Oh, yes, sir, he tries to prepare himself. When he first sinned in the beginning, the first thing you know, he went out and prepared himself an apron: fig leaves, wrapped it around him. He's making himself... Now, the word "religion" means "covering." And Adam and Eve made themself a religion, a covering. But when God called them and they had to stand face to face with God, they realized that their man-made religion wasn't no good.
And if you're anything short of the Holy Spirit and death strikes your body, you'll find out that man-made religion won't stand in the time of death.
Oh, don't tell me, I've stood to the hospitals and seen the doctors shoot hypos in the arm when there was deacons and everything else. That's right. Hear them scream and say... call to their pastor, "You deceiver of man. Why didn't you tell me the truth?"
It'll tell when you get down at the end of the road. So the best thing to do is make preparation for it right now. Get the thing straightened up. Get right with God.

L-22 Now, I notice that Eve wrapped herself up in some fig leaves, and Adam. But when it come time for to face God they were condemned. They realized that that man-made religion wouldn't work. So when God called them...
Now, how true it is today. When God was--had prepared Himself to speak to Adam, and Adam, in a man-made way, was trying to prepare himself to speak to God. But God had to prepare Adam to speak to Him. So in order to do that, they begin to pass the buck one to the other, in the old street expression. And then what happened? God went out and got some skins and made them aprons.
I want to give you who I think God is, just in a minute.


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