<TITLE>11. Par 37-38</TITLE>L-37 You know, here some time ago I heard of a church up in the northern part of Indiana was making their choice for a pastor. And the whole bunch of them, almost a hundred percent, unanimously voted on a guy because of his looks, great, big, fine-looking young man.
And I asked an old grandma lady; I said, "How did you vote in that case?"
"I seen them give the brother a Bible that day when they brought him into the church, and give him the privileges of being their pastor." And I said, "I always said he was such a handsome looking fellow."
I said, "But that's not all of it, sister. The thing of it is, what does he preach? What does he feed with? Does he feed with some kind of little revelation program? Does he talk about roses and flowers, or who's going to be the next president, or some baseball game, or some fish fry, or party? Or does he preach the Word of God and stand on It, firmly?" Yes, sir.
And I... One young lady, I said, "Well, what about you?" And she give me her excuse for it.
But look, that's the way people vote. They vote by their sight.
One time there had to be a selection made who'd take Saul's place down in Israel. And so Saul was head and shoulders above all of his army. So even the prophet got the horn of the oil and went up to Jesse's house to anoint one of his sons to be king. The Lord told him to. But He said, "Don't you anoint but who I call for."
And then they run out the great, big, oldest one there, great big seven-footer, said, "My, won't he look good standing in the pulpit with his clothes just fitting him just right?" and all about it.

L-38 That's what America wants today. Pentecost... Here it is; get ready. Pentecost is full of Hollywood evangelism. Why, in Louisville, Kentucky, a bunch of people come in there not long ago. And I went over there to a revival center for to get my soul all fed up. And I got over there, and a woman on the platform with great big earrings hanging down, and with the clothes on, looked like she'd been poured into them, and running up-and-down the aisle, hollering, "Hallelujah. Who will give the next fifty?" And I--I never heard such. And the music sound like some kind of rock-and-roll, boogie-woogie. That's got its place, but not on the platform. Amen. I guess, almost... I thought the building might fall in so I went out... To see people how far away... Don't think because you're Pentecostal, that God's going to take you in on that day. He won't do it. You've got to have the article, brother. That's right.
Notice, here he was, joining himself up, associating with unbelievers. So they fixed them a compass for seven days and got out into the desert, on out to fight the kings of Moab. And when they got out there, they found out that they ran out of water. Their water supply was cut off. And things go wrong when the water's cut off. Do you know that?


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