<TITLE>09. Par 40-42</TITLE>L-40 Abraham had to do it and call those things which were not as though they were; and he believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness. What we need today is the wishbone out of a backbone put in Christianity. It's there; the thing we need is some borned again Christians, men and women, who will when they see trouble rising, not slip off, not fall off, not run out this way be partakers of it, but a man and woman who will stand and show their color. Even your friends will appreciate you more if you will do that.
What man is he, that don't appreciate a woman, let her be as ugly as a fence, made of mud and daubed with tadpoles. Let her be as ugly as she may be, but let her be lady and character enough to stand for the woman morals. Any man that comes along will take off his hat to her, if he's got an ounce of man in him. And if man face that being a fallen son of God, what will God, Himself, say to a man who will stand upon his convictions, call right, right and wrong, wrong.

L-41 What we need today is a good old-time Saint Paul's revival and the Bible Holy Ghost back into the church again. There's so much of this wishy-washy carrying on in the name of Christianity, taking away. So much denominations, so much theology, so much education and... I'm not trying to support... People don't walk anyhow, as crippled as the church is. Here it is. As crippled as the church is, education's not your crutch; your faith is your crutch. Amen. That's right. Education will never do it; denomination will never do it; there'll never be an organization ever substitute the upper room experience. There'll never be a school that'll ever take the place of Pentecost. It can't be. "Not by power, not by might, but by My Spirit, saith the Lord." That's what we need today is back to the Bible experience, Christians that are borned again, that are washed in the Blood of the Lamb, made white, regenerated, twice born. What the world needs today, a revival, old-time revival, the kind that Saint Paul had in about A.D. 66.

L-42 Now, my brother, sister, we watch this mixed multitude going up. After while they begin to complain. That's what we find in every move of God. That's what you Methodists find in your church; that's what you Baptists find in your church; you Presbyterian, Pentecostals, whoever you are, you find them. It's a mixed multitude. That's what it was when John Wesley had a revival way back in the seventeenth century; a mixed multitude went in. When Martin Luther had a revival, mixed multitude went up. When the Baptists by John Smith had a revival, a mixed multitude went up. When the Pentecostal had a revival, a mixed multitude went up. And that's exactly what lays it on the shelf. If it had been the real genuine articles, would've stayed into the church, and would've prayed these others out, and had went on, there'd still be a revival in the Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, and Pentecostal church. It's a mixed multitude.


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