<TITLE>09. Par 34-37</TITLE>L-34 There they stood before the prophet, and he kinda got his righteous indignation up, to you holiness people. To you Calvinistic, you Presbyterian, and Baptist, he just plainly got angry. That's all.
All right. Oh, he got all stirred up. He looked over at Jehoram; he said, "Why don't you go down to your own cold, formal church? Get some of your preachers down there to ask this for you."
Oh, he really got his dandruff up. Said, "Why don't you go down to your mother's prophets and your daddy's prophets?" Yeah, kindly a half way border lined... "Why don't you go down to your own church?" Said, "Why'd you come here?"
And he said, "Nay. But the Lord has called us out here together."
And Elisha with his dandruff all up, he said, "If it wasn't that I respected the presence of Jehoshaphat, I wouldn't even look at you." Oh, my, he really got out of humor, didn't he? Now, when he did he got, was all, a place like that, he's in no condition for the Spirit to come on him. But he said, "Bring me a minstrel."
Now, to you people that don't believe in playing music in the church, I wonder what you going to do with that.

L-35 Here he come, said, "Bring me a minstrel. Go get out there in all the soldiers and see who can play the harp, and play the stringed instruments, and everything, and get in here, play 'Old Time Religion,' for me, or something."
So he'd get in here, and they got in there, and they all begin to play, maybe "Only Believe" or something on that order. Of course, they didn't have that song then, but something on that order. And this prophet, I can see him setting there, start to humming and patting his foot after a while. He's getting in the Spirit. That's what's the matter with the church tonight. That's what's the matter with this meeting tonight. If you can't get in the Spirit, you don't see nothing.
Elijah couldn't see something, till he got in the Spirit of it. Amen. "Amen" means "so be it." You have to get into the Spirit of it before you can see It.

L-36 Now, you people that used to go to dances--I don't believe you'd do it now, since you're a Christian. But when you used to, you used to have to play all the music, and carrying on and everything, and get in the spirit of dancing. When you went to ball games, you had to--somebody had to hit a home run 'fore you throwed the hats and screamed and hollered. Well, it was all right for you then.
But a fellow didn't believe much in ball games, he just stood there, he couldn't see nothing in it. He wasn't in the spirit of it. And that's the reason you come around to an old fashion meeting where they got good salvation, they go to hollering, "Amen" and "Praise The Lord," you say, "That bunch of fanatics." You're just not in the spirit of it; that's all. See?
If this is the Holy Spirit, then that other must be unholy spirit. This makes you do holy things, that makes you do unholy things.

L-37 Woman said one time, said, "Billy, I understand that you got some of that new kind of religion."
I said, "What kind's that?"
She said, "Oh, you know, them people that shout and going on like that."
I said, "A new kind? Why," I said, "that's the only kind, and the oldest religion there is."
"Oh," she said, "Why, we never--used to never hear about that."
"Why," I said, "About God spoke to Job one day, and He said, 'Job, where was you when I laid the foundations of the world? Tell me what they're fastened onto?' Said, 'When the morning stars sang together and the sons of God shouted for joy...'"
A hundred million years before the world was ever formed, they had shouting religion.  Amen. Then talk about something new. Why, it's the oldest there is, and the only kind there really is. Yeah, it's old fashion, heartfelt, sky blue, sin killing religion. Brother, it don't whitewash you; it washes you white from the inside out. Yes, it does. Make you do things you didn't think you ever would do.


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