<TITLE>08. Par 47-55</TITLE>L-47 Therefore, if a man or a woman could ever get their thoughts and their testimony and their lives so lined up with God (Amen.) until the channel of the Holy Spirit would be perfectly one with God, what would take place? If the man and the woman could ever get lined up, where with freedom from their hearts, with faith from their innermost...
Many people come to the altar to be prayed for. They have intellectual faith. They confess their sins and join a church by intellectual faith. They believe it in their heart--their mind. They believe it because they've heard it. They believe it because they know it's the best policy. But that's not what God looks at.
He don't look at your intellectual faith. He looks on the heart, where on the inside, God... And when it comes from the heart all things are possible then; your confession meets up with your life; your life speaks as loud as your confession does.
But when your confession says one thing and your life lives another, there's something wrong somewhere. That's because you got an intellectual faith and not a faith from your heart. And that shows that outside here is a knowledge of God, but inside here is a demon of doubting. "I believe in Divine healing, but it's not for me. (You see?) I--it could be so, but I don't believe it." Get it? Outside you say, "Yes." Inside your conscience says "No." That same scientific thing would prove that that wasn't right, prove it.

L-51 Notice, when these kings, before they started out, they should've... Before Jehoshaphat ever made an alliance with Ahab, he ought to have first said, "Let us pray and see what the will of the Lord is."
Give me a preacher; give me a Christian; give me a housewife that's a Christian; give me a farmer or a factory worker that'll put God first in everything, I'll show you a man that'll be successful in the spite of all the devil can put on him. He seeks God first. We must have first...
But they didn't do it. They were all clouded over because Ahab had a great bright kingdom, and he'd done a whole lot of things, and had his great fineries, his gold and his silver, and been a great successful man; yet an unbeliever.

L-54 And that's where the world is today. That's where America stands today. That's where the churches stands today. We built some of the best churches was ever built. We've had some of the best polished scholars we've ever had. We've taught some of the best theology and so forth, and learned to sing like angels, but yet there's a weakness somewhere. There's a weakness, because they've gone out after man's doctrine and enticing spirits instead of coming back to the Word of God. They try to make things pattern like the world. They try to put shiny lights over it like Hollywood.

L-55 Here the other day a famous denomination in the Full Gospel realm in Kansas City, or (I beg your pardon) in Denver at the convention, is building a million dollar church. And thousands of missionaries waiting for fifty cents from that same denomination to carry the Gospel into the heathen. What we need today is a missionary minded, God sent, Holy Ghost born revival that'll have the zeal of God to push on down through the jungles yonder and do something for God instead of building big fine churches and try to outshine the neighbor.
I'd rather worship in a mission where it'd been swept out, or a barroom, and have the freedom of the Holy Spirit and the love of God burning into the hearts, than set in the greatest cathedral that we got in the world and be cramped down with man's doctrines and dogmas. What we need today is a shaking revival, to get back to the Truth, get back to God's Word again.


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