<TITLE>16. Par 163-171</TITLE>L-163 You don't believe it? Now, I'm going to sit down on the--you people out in the other churches. You're in a lukewarm age. And your evangelists are crossing the earth, around the earth, preaching things like that; you'll get nowhere. You're hollering... You Baptists are hollering, "A million more in '44." What have you got when you got them? Just got a bunch of sinners come in with their names on the book (That's right.), say they belong to the Baptist church. Not only that, but you have the Methodists, Campbellites, and the whole group, just as formal and indifferent. Billy Graham had that, "Thirty thousand converts," he said, "and six weeks..." And six weeks later he couldn't find thirty. Why? Why? They never got nothing to start with, just a bunch of sinners, when they put their name on the book, under the spell of a revival.
He said, "The Kingdom of heaven is like one pitched the net the sea. When he brought forth, he had everything." He had turtles. He had crawfish. He had terrapins. He had spiders. He had water bugs. He had serpents. That's right. But in there he had some fish also.
Now, when a man preaches a revival under the power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit, the net is drawed around the people. That's right. But if he's a bug to begin with, he's a bug at the end of the revival.
If he's a water spider, the first thing you know, he will go looking around, saying, "I don't believe in this old stuff anyhow," and pop off back to the water.
If he's a snake, he will say, "I told you about it," and away he will go. He was a snake to begin with, his nature was. And he will never be nothing else until that nature is changed.

L-168 A man can't join a church, or get all emotional worked up, or anything else, and become a Christian. It's got to be a solid birth of the Spirit; sincerely dying out, crying out, lying there till he's dead in Christ. Remember, life can only come out of death.
A grain of corn, if it abides, it abide alone; it'll never mean no more than that one grain of corn. "Except a corn of wheat fall in the earth, it abide alone." But when it falls there, it rots, contaminates; and out of that midst of corruption comes the germ of life that gives it life and produces more.
Except the church will be borned again, die out to their creeds, and theologies, and so forth, and be borned anew of the Spirit of God, it'll be an old, cold, formal, ungodly, indifferent. Amen. That's right. That's old fashion sassafras preaching, but it'll save you, brother. That's right. It'll keep you when the storms are blowing hard. Get rooted and grounded. Get all the dirt scraped off 'fore you pour your concrete; notice, that's right, and the anchor rods down good and tight. Oh, brother, what a day that we're living in: formal, indifferent church age. Yes, sir.
"To the seven churches," said, "send this message."

L-171 Now, in that church age they begin to come in; they wedded into idolatry. They do the same thing now; they come in, doing the same thing. And out of that come in formal Christianity, begin to fading away until they're getting down to the last church age.
Now, the modern church, which we call the denomination... We holiness people, you know, we call them, the modern, and they go out there and they start in their revival, too. You say, "They're not getting anywhere."


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