<TITLE>09. Par 41-44</TITLE>L-41 So if many full Gospel doctrines seems hard to you, just get down and pray till the Holy Ghost gets into you, it'll lead you to the fountain as certain as I'm standing here.
My. If you just get down to the fountain, empty up so God can fill you up. Led by the Spirit. Sons and daughters of God are led by the Spirit of God.
Abraham, the old patriarch, seventy-five years old, Sarah, sixty-five, God met him one day down in the valley of the Shinar there, the city of Ur, and He said to Abraham, "I'm going to bless you, and I'm going to give you a son by Sarah." Said, "Now, in order to do this, if you stay around all this unbelief around here, you'll get to doubting. But I want you to separate yourself."

L-42 Usually if a man's going to be a believer, he's got to separate himself from his worldly friends, all the--the people. Yoke yourself out up from amongst unbelievers. They'll only call you back into the world again.
Environment has a lot to do with it. Did you know that? Your environment... Sure did. As Brother Bosworth used to say, you could put a hen egg under a puppy and tie him down, it would hatch the egg. The puppy would hatch out the chicken then. See, it's because the--the puppy keeps the egg warm, and it's the environment that counts. And when you're a Christian, you associate with Christians, and go with Christians, and be a Christian. You've got to have the right kind of an environment around you.
If you get out in the pool rooms, and dance halls, and shindigs, and everything else, and call yourself a Christian, the first thing you know, you'll be believing it's all right to do it.

L-43 That's what's the matter with the Pentecostal church. That's what's the matter with all the Pentecostal women, cutting their hair, and--and putting makeup on, and--and men doing the way they're doing, is because they begin to associate your... Bring yourselves together, forsaking not to assemble yourselves together as you see the time coming, and you let down the bars.
That's the reason you don't hear the old fashion, back woods, hell fire and brimstone preached any more. Men are a scared to preach it. Preachers are say that--scared to say it's so because their wives act the same way, and they're afraid to say it.

L-44 Here not long ago a certain man taken me out; I had a man working for me, driving a truck; the man smoked. He was a good man, but he smoked. He didn't profess to be a Christian, but he was a good man. I had him as a hand.
This man said, "We can't do this. We're full Gospel people. That would absolutely upset our people to know that you had a man with you that smoked cigarettes."
I said, "Then I'll lay him off, get somebody else."
Said, "All right."
I said, "I tried two or three on it, and you can't put no confidence; when you're ready to go they've gone somewhere else," and I said, "That's the reason I put him on."
Said, "Well, we are full Gospel people. It'll be a stumbling block before us," this minister said.
I said, "All right then. I'll just tell the man in a good way and lay him off." I did.


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