<TITLE>25. Par 89-91</TITLE>L-89 I want to say something now to, maybe, the member of a church. I didn't want to hurt your feelings. I want to tell you a little experience that happened about two weeks ago. There was a fine young lady who went to a wonderful church. And why, it was a Methodist church, a lovely little lady. And she got to go... I always doubted the woman's experience, because she just went because her mother and father went. Her father was a deacon in church. She learned to play the piano, and she was a very fine pianist.
A fine boy there, I believe the boy really had the Holy Ghost. And he fell in love with her, and they married. This happened in Louisville, Kentucky, no older than just a few weeks ago. And so, the--the lady... I knew the pastor real well, and so forth. And I kind of doubted that that woman--her experience. Well, well, long as she was with her mother and things, she walked a pretty good way, but she had that intellectual faith. Now, listen real close, now. This is seriously; souls are at stake.

L-90 And I--I wondered. I wasn't to be her judge, but I just noticed the way she--she conducted herself, didn't seem to be very much Christian. So then, went on, and she moved out of the neighborhood a few years ago and moved into another neighborhood where the church was kinda worldly. And the ladies all didn't dress very nice, wore these little clothes like they wear, you know, and get out and mow the yard, and things. Didn't look very ladylike.
So she begin to wonder, "Now, if they can do it and get by, well, they're just as much thought of as I am. So why can't I do it?"
Oh, don't never let that enter your mind. See? That shows there's been... Something's lacking down here. The Holy Spirit would teach you different, friend.

L-91 But she started on. Well, she begin to reason. Now, when a man is--got a soul, that soul won't reason with God's Word; it'll believe It. But the intellectual mind will reason with God's Word. You say, "Oh, well, that may be fanaticism. I don't know whether to do that..." Watch out. That comes from the Bible; you search it. And your soul, if it's got the Holy Spirit, will search it and recognize it.
So it went on. And after while, you know what happened? She started taking card parties, and little social gatherings. And there was a nice looking, young fellow moved in the neighborhood, and she fell in love with him, left her husband, and married the man.
"Well," she thought, "other women do it. And well, they belong to a church. Why can't I?" See, that's reasonings.
She said, "I'm just as much of a church member as I ever was. I'm just as much as of a Christian as I ever was. Other women do it, and look how they're thought of." Don't never think of what people think; think about what God thinks (See?), what God says.
And after while, he proved out not to be... 'Course, if he'd leave his one wife, he will leave another. So he left her, and she married again. And then she... That man left her. And she lived with a common law husband. And then it caught up with her. She took cancer of the female organ.


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