<TITLE>12. Par 40-41</TITLE>L-40 One fellow was telling me this afternoon. I don't mean this for any harm, or don't mean it for a joke. After the message last night a poor sister come to him, said, "You know what?" She said, "I've been using pancake makeup for a long time to hide pimples on my face." But said, "When that preacher got through last night I went and washed my face." That's right. God bless you, sister. You're not far from the Kingdom. Yes, brother, get back to the old hewing line.
You'll let the members come in, say, "Oh, you know who this is? This is Mr. Jones who lives around the corner. Oh, he's got a swell... He drives a Cadillac. Well, we couldn't... You know what? We couldn't afford not to take him, because he put the stained windows in the building, you know. We got to take him in the church." That's where you weaken, brother. He will have to pay the price like the rest of them did.
I know of a--a church that took a member in just recently, and he was so worldly till he didn't want to come out publicly in the church and confess Christ. And the preacher took him back in the anteroom and there took him in the church. He ought to took a foot and out the door with him, is what he ought to have done, or down at the altar. That's exactly right.

L-41 Oh, brother, when the weakling's a preacher, got a meal ticket in view... You ought to have the cross in view and Christ in view to know God's going make you pay for your little old sissified ways you're doing. God wants men. That's right. Man's not measured by how big his arm is or... Man's measured by character. Certainly. Big man's brute. I seen men that weighed two hundred pounds and didn't have an ounce of man in him. But man is measured by character. So is women measured by character. And if we are sons and daughters of God, what type of character ought we to be? Now, here's what's the matter.
Peter said on the day of Pentecost... These fellows said, "Well, how can we get into this supper?"
Peter said, "Repent, every one of you," not walk up and shake hands with the preacher, not go up and take the first communion. No, sir. There's no such thing wrote in the Bible.
Could you imagine Acts 2 reading like this, "And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all in one place in one accord. And all of a sudden the Doctor Bishop walked out and said, 'Now, we will take this man the right hand of fellowship and give him... put him into the church." Could you imagine? "And when the day of Pentecost [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] come," that's the Protestant way. The Catholic way... "When the day of Pentecost is fully come the priest come out, the sinner come to the altar, licked out his tongue, put a little wafer, and the priest drinks the wine, they had it," the Holy Eucharist, the Holy Ghost, in other words. Don't sound right.
But the Bible said, "When the day of Pentecost had fully come," there'd never come up the road or out of behind the curtain, "but there come from heaven a sound like a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were setting." And was so hot in there the fire begin to lick like tongues. That's the way to get rid of the thing.


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