<TITLE>07. Par 19-20</TITLE>L-19 Why can't we have faith? Why can't we have greater peace than we do have? Why can't we get ourself soundly builded? It's because we're putting on corn plasters, because we're putting on stickers, putting on pieces of tape. We're trying to cover the thing up instead of saying we need a transfusion. We're without Blood. We're without Christ. Don't let yourself be fooled. Don't let the devil pat you on the shoulder, saying, "Well, I go to church." The devil does too. That's right. He sure did.
He come up to God, went to church up in heaven, come before the throne of God with the sons of God, set down with them, had an audience with God. He said, "Where you been?"
Said, "Walking to and fro, on down on the earth." That's where he had been.
So the devil goes to church. The devil belongs to church. The devil acts like a Christian. He's a deceiver. And if he didn't act like a Christian and act like a church, he wouldn't be a deceiver. No man could be deceived, only if they--the difference was black and white, if it's contrary to one another. But he... The Bible said that it'd be so close that it would deceive the very elect if possible, the spirit in the last days. Friends, we're there.

L-20 It's time for the prophets of God, oh, brother, for the preachers, if you would say it, across the nation, to fall on their face. When I know there's nineteen million Baptist churches, nineteen million Baptists, rather, in America, thirteen million Methodist, eleven million Lutherans, ten million Presbyterians, mercy, think of that. And constantly, the ball games, the amusements... And on Wednesday nights and sometimes on Sunday nights, stay home to listen to the television and the radio of old jugs, gags, and jokes they pull from Hollywood, your soul growing on that kind of stuff, when you ought to have your Bible out somewhere, laying out before God on your knees a praying for the sins of the country... And I'm guilty with you.
I have made my mind up. By the help and grace of God, if I--God will give me strength to do it, I'm determined to press towards the mark of the high calling in Christ Jesus till death shall set me free. God, be my Helper to do so. Help me, is my prayer. Seeing the works and seeing the things that I have seen and you have seen, and lagging behind and become a spiritual anemia...


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