<TITLE>08. Par 27-30</TITLE>L-27 Now, mental emotion... Now, if we only... The smarter the man would be, the more intellect he is, the more schooling he got, the better grammar he can use, then the better off the church is, better off the people are.
If he can present the program and say, "Now, we'll build a great church. We will call it a certain name. We will attract the attention of the people all through the city when we play chimes every Sunday morning on our spire. We shall attract the attention of the poor lost sinner in the gutter when he sees that we wear the better clothes. When he sees that our women can fix their hair... The poor women can see how our women can do their hair, what nice hats they wear. And when we present this to the people, the poor and hungry will then come to our--our meetings and will desire to be as these women are. And the men will see what nice suits we wear, and how we dress, and how--what cars we ride in, and what we do, and how we stand in the social ability of the city with the Kiwanis and other clubs, and the things that we join, they'll see that they... And then the poor and the illiterate will come and desire to bring their children and educate them, so that they can become a member of this great society called the church."
Now, if that is God's program, they're right. But Jesus never quoted it that way. Jesus said, "If I be lifted up, I'll draw all men unto Me."

L-28 So through the world educational program... Which is all right; it's all right if you don't leave this out. But man is not drawed to Christ by intellectuals, by theology. The Holy Spirit alone is God's drawing power. The poor will never receive it, and the rich can't, until they become poor of these things of the world.
Christ being rich, become poor, that through His poverty we might be rich. "He that exalts himself shall be abased, and he that humbles himself shall be exalted." They have got the thing topsy-turvy. They are trying to get men into church by intellectual speeches. What we need is not intellectual speeches, but it's baptism of the Holy Spirit with power, and demonstrations, and manifestations of the Spirit, is what we need to bring men to the church. It's the drawing unction of the Holy Spirit.

L-29 Schools and seminaries are wonderful; I have nothing against them, but that's not God's program. God chose the ignorant and illiterate, men who couldn't speak well, men who couldn't even read their own name; and the Bible said they were ignorant and unlearned. But they had been to a far better school. For when they healed a man at the gate called Beautiful, they took knowledge that they had been with Jesus. There's the school.
And in this being the intellectual type of churches that we have today in America, and all over the world, when we get to that type of school, then the Christian, the believer, the church member, reading the Bible sees that he must try to act humble. He must try to be this way. But in doing so he only makes a carnal impersonation. Let that soak deep. A carnal comparison, he's trying to act something that he really isn't in his heart. In his heart he's thinking one thing, and trying to act another, which in real genuine language, that makes him a hypocrite.

L-30 Jesus said, "You hypocrites, how can you speak good things, for out of the abundance of the heart speaketh the mouth." If you don't speak according to what's in your heart, your heart thinks one thing and you speak another, that makes you a hypocrite.
The very word "Pharisee" means, "actor." They acted out their religion for they had a stony heart. They come and said, "Good Master, we would see a sign from Thee to prove that you are what You said."
Said, "How do you call Me good, when there's none good but God?" Said, "The weak and the adulteress generation seeks for this. And there will be a sign given them, as Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and nights, so the Son of man will be in the heart of the earth three days and nights."


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