<TITLE>13. Par 128-135</TITLE>L-128 I said, the--the waters, how that the waters kept them soft. That's what we do today, get in the Spirit. John said, "I was in the Spirit."
When Elijah out there on the desert, they come down. Jehoshaphat said, "Let's go down and consult the prophet." They went down in front of the prophet.
Well, now, he got up his righteous indignation. He looks over to that fellow, and he said, "Why don't you go to your mother's god? Why don't you go back to your own, old, cold, formal church? Why'd you come to me for when you got in trouble?" That wasn't a very good thing to say, but that's just so much words that meant that. "Why'd you come down to me? Why don't you go to your mother's god? You all have those big fine churches, and all those fine-fed priests, and so forth, back there. Go on back and ask them about it. Why do you come down here to me?" Whew. My. He kind of got all stuffed up, sure enough, didn't he? He said, "It wasn't that I respected the presence of that godly man Jehoshaphat; I wouldn't even look at you." Oh, my, what a condition that prophet got into. Now, he's all in that kind of fix.
He said, "Well, bring me a minstrel." Some people don't believe in music in the church. But he said, "Bring me a minstrel." And when the minstrel begin to play some good old hymn, "Nearer My God To Thee," or whatever you want to call it; I don't know. When the minstrel begin to pray, the Spirit of God got on the prophet. And when the Spirit got on him, he got in a vision; he begin to see things.
You have to get in the Spirit of God. Well, you say, "I can't understand how people can say, 'Amen.'" Get in the Spirit once. That's right.
I can't see how they stand at the baseball game, and beat one another on the back, and holler, and hoop, and pull the hats down and carry on. Seems like crazy to me. "Well," you say "you're not a very good baseball fiend." I'm just about as much...
How about you as a Christian? All right. That's right. You've got to get into the Spirit of it.

L-135 That's the way it is when you used to go to dances. I don't believe you'd to go now, surely not. But if you--you used to go, they'd to play up the hoop-up music, and beat the bands, and beat the drums, and do every kind of a thing there was about it; and the women run out there, half naked and everything else, and dance on the floors, and things; get you in the spirit to dance. Well, that's right. You get in the spirit of it. It's the spirit of the devil. Glad you said, "Amen," because it's the truth. I'll prove it by the Bible. That's right. All right.
Say, "Well, I don't believe it, brother." Well, you, it ain't what you say, or what I think; it's what God's Word says. That's what settles it. That's the final Word. Yes, sir. He said, "If you love the world, or the things of the world, love of God is not even in you." That's right.
And you remember that little woman taught her daughter to tap dance, and things like that, and went down there and danced before the king, and required the head of John the Baptist; seventy of her children died as prostitutes and on gallows. You can see what it does like that.
Moses' mother stayed home and kept him and taught him the Word of the Lord; you see what happened to him and his. Through him come out of Abraham, and so forth, and on down.
All right, just depends on what you want to do. You, you're a free moral agent; you act on whatever you desire to act upon. Right. God has put before man, like the garden of Eden, the Tree of Life or the tree of death. You make your choice. See? Whatever your soul is charmed for, that's what you'll eat. Notice, now. And they were...


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