<TITLE>08. Par 24-26</TITLE>L-24 Now, now, keep away from it. Shun the very appearance of evil. You may think I'm giving you a scorching, but, brother, I believe it needs it down here. There's something that is wrong. There's something... Now, I don't want you to get angry with me; I'm your brother. And God's going to make me answer before you at the day of judgment. That's right.
And the whole Pentecostal world, if they do let down, don't you do it. You stay true to God. Pray up. Live right. Associate yourself with God and His people. And come out from among the worldly, ungodly things, that the Bible said. The Holy Spirit calls the people out. No matter what your neighbor does and how good she is, what this fellow does, don't associate with that unbelief. It'll leap right out on you. Amen. "Come out from among them. Be ye separated," saith God, "and I will receive you." That's right.
That's the reason it's so hard to have a tent meeting down here. That's the reason it's so hard to have a meeting of any type, is because that we let down those things. We ought to have a real meeting here. Sure we ought to have, with such fine people. And you preachers, if you don't tell them that, God have mercy on your sinful soul. That's right. Sure. There's something wrong. And you got to get the world out before Christ come in. He just won't associate with unbelief and things of the world.

L-25 Now, look, friend. Down along--they come along after Ahab, of borderline believers, all the way down. After this Ahab had left, then another one taken his place, another one, till we get down to King Joash, was king during this time. And he was a lukewarm, borderline preacher, or believer. Any way the people wanted to do, that was all right with Joash. Oh, he'd taken out a few of the high places, and where the heathen worship was, and He done a few of these things, but yet he departed not from the sins of his father, and like that. Just any way the people wanted to go, that's the way he wanted to go.
Now, isn't that just exactly like preachers today? The way the congregation wants to do, that's the way the preacher preaches to them. I want to tell you: a God-sent, Holy Ghost borned preacher won't compromise with any congregation. That's right.
Could you imagine John the Baptist, when they brought out Herodias that night, and Herod. Why, John walked right to his face, and said, "It's not lawful for you to have her." That man had the Holy Ghost. He didn't compromise; he told the truth. And what about it now? It's all over. What will it be at the day of judgment, when the head of John the Baptist rolls up before Herodias? What will it be then?

L-26 Brother, if you're ever going to make a stand for God, make it now. This is the time. Now's the time when we need of it. Now's the time when the church is weighed in the balance and found wanting. After all these great miracles, and signs, and wonders that God has sent men across the country doing, and yet the church is in the poorest, backslidden state I ever run up in years. That's right. I'm preaching to Pentecostals. Amen.
When I first come among your groups ten years ago, it looked like a church; but today it looks like the world. It's the truth. Something happened somewhere. You got to wearing better clothes, got to making a little more money, and it just made a sap out of you; that's all. Now, you... That's the truth. That's right. You're trying to--you're trying to act like the rest of the world.
You just take... Today is a compromising time. That's true. You paint your steps red and watch and see if your neighbor don't paint his steps red. Sure. You wear a little round hat to church with a little feather up in it and watch all the women come to church with a little round hat and a feather up in it. That's right. Yes, sir. All of them want to look like one another.


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