<TITLE>13. Par 42-45</TITLE>L-42 I was preaching in a famous church here not long, and I said, "Smoking cigarettes is no sin. Committing adultery is no sin. Telling lies is no sin."
A lady looked at me and spoke right out, said, "What is sin then?"
I said, "Unbelief." I said, "Smoking cigarettes, and drinking, and carousing, and running around is the very symptoms; it's the attributes of your unbelief." I said, "You do that because you don't believe Jesus."
Jesus said, "He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath Everlasting Life."

L-43 When you say you're a believer and do that, it shows there's something wrong. You don't believe. You're making out like you believe. You're taking reasonings and not taking your soul's conviction, because your soul is the part of God that's in you, that'll agree with God's Word being true. If not, you'll just take our intellectual. You think.

L-44 She went on. Of course, with that little slicker, she ought to have had brains enough to know if he would run away from one wife, he would do another one. So that's what he done. Then she become so degraded, still going to church, still playing the piano, until she begin to live with a common law husband. But sin caught up with her. Don't you think it won't catch up with you. It will. You're sins will find you out.
And after while she begin to have pains down in the lower part of her, and she let it go for a while. When she went to a doctor, come to find out, it was malignancy advanced. Nothing could be done but die.
Happens to be a pastor of our own church, very spiritual man, out of Asbury College... Now, of course, you'll know that she was a Methodist. All right. But he's at our church, a fine boy, has received the Holy Spirit, a very fine man. And he goes to talk to this woman, 'cause she was--been raised a Methodist and he thought he ought to talk to her. He was sent there by friends. And she let him know that she was just as well off as anybody. And she believed it, intellectually reasoned it. Why? "I belong to church. My letter is in the church, I'm just as good as anybody." Said, "I'm as good as you are."
He said, "That's not the question lady." Said, "I'm a minister, and now, you setting there smoking them cigarettes and things like that, we don't believe in such as that."
She said, "That's none of your business. I never sent for you."
He said, "Yes, but I felt that God sent for me to come." She said... said, "What about this common law husband?"
She said, "That's none of your business. I'm just as well off as the rest of you. I'm a Christian." And she believed it. You can believe a lie and be damned by it too. The Bible... That's right.

L-45 "There's a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is the ways of death." It might seem all right, intellectually. Your soul will always testify to the Word of God if it's born again. If you got an intellectual faith, oh, you'll agree, sure. Say, "That Bible's right."
The devil says the same thing. The devil says, "There's a God in heaven. There's a Jesus Christ." Certainly, they believe the same thing."
Oh, you say, "The devil believe in Jesus Christ?" Certainly.
They publicly confessed Him, said, "Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the Christ, the holy One. Why do you come to torment us before our time comes?" Certainly, they publicly confessed Him to be the Son of God. And ministers with a shallow experience and with a bogus religion, go out and have people to make such a dry-eyed confession as that, and go back out in the world and live like the world and claim that they're Christians.


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