<TITLE>10. Par 30-32</TITLE>L-30 Notice, there they was setting there tipping their glasses together, "Oh, you know, I tell you; our great denomination is a growing. I tell you, we taken in so many members; we did this, that, the other," and Jesus setting there with unwashed feet. God, be merciful. What's happened to people?
Why, men gets so they act like they don't pay any attention to it. And women, it's hard to find a woman with enough modesty about her to blush. I haven't seen a blushing woman since I was a kid. That's right. What's the matter? The whole thought of--of decency has left the American people. You crack jokes and keep your head in them old televisions and things. No wonder the church is in the condition it is. And your self-made style, pastor [Congregation applauds--Ed.] permitting such as that. Don't tell you any difference.
Jesus wants to come to your home. He wants to heal you. He wants you to love Him. But you won't let Him do it. He wants to come to your church. But, "Oh, that's something back." You set Him back in the corner. He will not always come, remember. But He's so good.

L-31 And some of you people that don't go to church, shame on you. Go to church about once a year and that's on Easter to show your pretty hat... That's right.
But you know what? You... God deserves the first place. Jesus ought to have the first place in every life. But we give Him about the fourth place. He deserves the first place. Well, you say, "I pray once a day." That's all right. He receives it. If you want to give Him fourth place, that's all right, He will take it. You only went to church once this year, maybe, and wore the new hat and everything, but He never condemned you for it. That's what makes Him God to me. If you want to give Him fourth place or fifth place, He will take it. He will take anything you give Him, but He ought to have the first place. He ought to have the best we can give. He ought to have our first, our best, our all. He's deserving of it.

L-32 Notice, now. There He was setting there, just a wall flower. I say this with respect and not critical, but I say it knowing that I've got to face Him someday in the judgment. Jesus Christ is no more than a wallflower in a lot of your big morgues around here. That's right. You just... The only thing you use is His Name. He can't come in and be blessed and worshipped by His saints. You won't permit it. You've got too worldly, that's what's the matter. You're too took up in something else, just like old Pharisee was.
You're too took up in the things of the world. You have to stay and see "Who loves Susie." You have to see Arthur Godfrey, or go down and get Elvis Presley's records and play them. And call yourselves Christians. You are weighed in the balance and found wanting. And when you do go to church, just a little sideline or something, don't worship: "In vain do they worship Me, teaching for doctrine the commandments of men." In vain--don't do no good to worship, if you worship like that. Jesus said it was in vain.


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