<TITLE>23. Par 85-88</TITLE>L-85 Now, you become so cultinized; you become so organized, till each one of you little petty organizations believe that, "This is now. And now, I--I belong to this. I belong to that."
Oh, you poor miserable person. If that's all you've got to hang to, God be merciful to your sinful soul. The time is come when the clergyman has raised up to be some kind of actors in a skit. What's the matter today? They don't have the old fashion religion they used to have.
Today you got too much Hollywood evangelism, some little sissified guy with manicured hair, and stand up to a bunch of women with earrings hanging down like the devil's stirrups, and enough paint on their face to paint a barn, and bobbed hair, and every... That used to be a sin among you Holiness people. What happened? You did run well. The Bible still says it's a sin. That's right.
But oh, my, you saintly people, you bob your hair and you... Oh, you do all these things. Now, don't get angry. If it makes you sick, just take it anyhow. It'll do you good. That's right.

L-86 Oh, you Pentecostal people used to be very holy, but what happened? You did run well. Paul said, "What does hinder you?" If it was a sin then, it's a sin now. The devil might've went out of fashion, but he didn't go out of business. He's still in business. That's right.
You know that's the truth. No use squirming around about it. You know that's the truth. Yes, sir. But what is it? It's a sign of the end time.

L-87 Now, again the pastors... Old Brother, Methodist preacher friend of mine, old Brother Sturgeon used to sing this:
 We let down the bars;
 We let down the bars;
 We comprised with sin.
 We let down the bars.
 The sheep got out,
 But how did the goats get in?
Uh-huh, you let down the bars. That's what's the matter.
And old John Smith, when he was nearly ninety years stood up and... They had to pack him to the pulpit. He preached a short sermon; only two and a half hours is all longer he could preach in a Methodist Church. And he said, "Oh, such a disgrace." He said, "My heart is a burning within me. For the daughters of the Methodist church has become so foul, till they're wearing gold rings upon their fingers."
What would he think today with a pair of shorts on? My, oh God, be merciful, be... Don't you see what I mean? No wonder such people as that and such preaching as letting the bars down, and comprising, taken membership instead of fellowship with Christ. And took the upper room, where we used to go and pray... And you old fashion Methodist and Baptist fell on the floor with the Holy Ghost, till they'd dash water in your face and fan with a fan. And you old mammies and daddies know that.
But today, oh, my, my. No, the very audacity. No they wouldn't... Oh, my, no; they wouldn't believe in that. It's too bad, just too bad that you don't. So you ought to go back to the old way again.

L-88 But today you let down the bars, and you see what you got? You hatched out a bunch of infidels, social gospel preachers, with education instead of salvation, comprising with the world. That's right. You say, "Preacher, what's you so hard about it?"
It's time to be hard. That's right. Time to tell the truth. Woe unto a man. Could you imagine John the Baptist filled with the Holy Ghost, when Herod come out living with his brother Philip's wife. I hear the deacons comes and said, "Don't you preach on marriage and divorce. Now, I tell you who he is. He's got his Brother Philip's..."
Oh, John full of the Holy Ghost, could he hold his peace? With that old piece of sheepskin wrapped around his hairy chest, he walked out and said, "It's not lawful for you to have her." Amen.


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