<TITLE>18. Par 68-71</TITLE>L-68 Now, notice, how that God did. God said, "Be heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God; trucebreakers, false accusers ('Aw, there's nothing to them'), false accusers, incontinent, and despisers of those that are good; having a form of godliness (very orthodox), but denying the power thereof: from such turn away."
If the Holy Spirit said so, I guess I can quote the Holy Spirit. From such turn away, for this is the sort that goes from house to house and organizes the women's missionary societies, and stitch and sew and sew and stitch, and--and talk about Miss So-and-so and all these kind of things.
Brother, what you need is prayer meetings. Get men and women back to God, to the old fashion hewing line again. That's the truth. You know that's the truth. And that might scorch you just a little bit, my brother, but it better scorch you now than have you burnt after while. So you just listen to it. That's the truth.

L-69 Notice now, how they went on. God looked down; both smoldering sacrifices, and God blessed Israel, because He was with Israel.
Here they come up now to the borderline. Moses had died and Joshua was the new leader, and he was going to take the children across to the other side. They sent some more spies out. Had to go spy the land out again, forty years had passed. That's... see, you have to go do your first works over again, don't you?
I think if Pentecost started off back there with that kind of a--of free and going a free-hearted, and--and free in the Spirit and everything, I think you better go and do your first works over again. Don't you think so? Get back to the old hewing line, the old landmark again. Come back again to believing in God. Come back to letting the Holy Ghost have Its way in your heart, to worshipping God in the Spirit and doing like they used to do. Get that old starchy indifferent feeling away from you. My, you can't--you can't have a church like that. You can't have believers like that.

L-70 You take, like an old mother bird setting on a bunch of eggs. You know if she... It--it isn't the mother bird now that hatches the eggs. It's the--it's the atmosphere around them eggs is what hatches it. It's the atmosphere all the time.
And you get an atmosphere where people are disbelieving and fussing and stewing among one another, and arguing about whether they belong to this church or that, you'll never hatch out Christians. That's right. You can't do it.
This old bird might set on that nest and hover them eggs till she gets so poor she can't fly off the nest. If that male bird has... If that female bird hasn't been with the male bird, them eggs will never hatch. They'll rot right in the nest. That's right.

L-71 And that's what the church has got to doing today. You get for your pastor the best educated man you can find. You go and get the best dressed man, and the one that can stand on the platform and look the best. This great big, tall, six-footer, you know, with a wavy hair flowing like that, and... "Why, that's the guy I want for my pastor." Brother, you got away from the old hewing line, the only thing I can tell you. I'd rather have a man preach to me with a pair of overalls on and mud on his shoes and know God, than all the D.D.'s that you could put before me. The... Hallelujah. Back to the old hewing line again, brother. That's where we ought to go, somebody to preach the full Gospel, believe in Divine healing, the power of God, the resurrection, that Jesus the same yesterday, today, and forever.


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