<TITLE>12. Par 38-40</TITLE>L-38 "Just so that my organization, I--I become the chief presbyter next year, and maybe I'll be a district man or something." That's all the preacher about cares about any more. Come on, preacher, we're going to take it with them. That's right. Oh, my, pulling feathers in the hat and so forth, when we ought to be on our knees crying for the sins, and the abomination, and the disgrace that's done into the city. We seem to be so unconcerned about the lost. Amen. Amen. That's right. You know that's the truth. Unconcerned about the lost... "Just so our church makes it, so we have the greatest congregation Sunday." All stay home Sunday night and look at the television.
Today I was in one of the biggest churches in the city. One of the members said, "We have three thousand people here on Sunday morning; Sunday night we don't have half of it." They all come to church to do their religion, and go back home, look at the television, take a little ride out in the country. Why, it's a disgrace. It shows there's something lacking in the heart. Amen.

L-39 When I was a lineman for the public service company, one day I went to a room to collect the electric light bill. A little old woman come to the door, about enough clothes on to go in a aspirin box, and she was dancing across the floor. And some guy with a little old fiddle was going on the radio. And she danced across the floor. Said, "What did I want?"
And I said, "The electric light bill."
She said, "Oh," she said, "I was fixing to take it down." So she danced back across the floor. And that guy started playing some kind of a little old silly music, like this old boogie-woogie stuff that you can't even eat in a restaurant any more for the cause of it. That squeaky, ungodly... Oh, my. No wonder the world's polluted. Their whole mind's on sex, and filth, and ungodly things; even preachers do it. Amen. It's a disgrace.

L-40 People call themselves with the Holy Ghost and playing them old nasty dirty tunes and things. Brother, that's the buzzard inside of you feeding on that; you need the Holy Ghost in there. That'll feed on the Word of God. Amen. I'm not angry with you, but, brother, you've got to know the truth. Amen. That's the reason you can't have a prayer meeting; you ain't got no time for it. Only interested in one thing: that's bettering the church a little bit better, teaching your people, wear a little better clothes, drive a little better car, get a little better job, pay more tithes. That's it. Live in mansions and so forth... Oh, mercy.
And heathens are dying, a hundred and forty thousand a day without knowing Jesus Christ. Pull all kinds of money for everything else, the poor missionary on the field bleeding his life out, starving to death. For they'll raise up at the day of judgment, and condemn you, and send you away. Their testimony will condemn them. Amen. Then talk about the Holy Spirit seal. Amen.


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