<TITLE>08. Par 37-42</TITLE>L-37 And the great Full Gospel church has become nearly a floor show. That's right. You've got so much Hollywood evangelism. God help us to tear that thing from the pulpit and get back to the Word of God and the true baptism of the Holy Spirit. We need it.
Oh, you might stick your little nose up after this and go out in the rain and drown you, but let me tell you something, sister, you'll answer at the day of judgment as an adulteress. If that sinner has looked upon you to lust for you, though you be as pure as a lily to your husband... But if that sinner has looked after you like that, Jesus said "He has committed adultery with you." And if he has to answer for committing adultery, who caused it? You, the way you dress. And God help your backslidden pastor that won't tell you those things. That's right.

L-38 I think that preachers has become a place that the pastoral is more of a meal ticket than it is a Gospel of Christ. Now, you know that's right. That's right. Or some popularity... Brother, I never want to be popular. I say, "God, make me honest" is the thing I want to be, not popular, honest.

L-39 No wonder we're accepting every little "ism" that comes along, every little fantastic that moves, you've got out of the Word of God. That's right. You're trying to see who's got the biggest church, the best dressed crowd. The Holy Spirit does not feed the church as long as we're depending upon intellectuals. When we get rid of intellectual, and get down to the Word of God and the baptism of the Holy Spirit, these things will clean out. That's right. No wonder Divine healing can't be preached in its power like it used to be. It's because it has no foundation to lay it on. That's exactly right. No wonder. How that we ought to be taught...
Some ones don't even know how to hold their peace to operate spiritual gifts in the church. I am not scolding you. I'm just preaching the Word. That's right. That's what the Bible said. Oh, what a pity, oh, what a pity.

L-40 It used to be that men and women used to pray all day. They'd go to church, and preach half the night, and lay on the altar the rest of the night. Find it today. And the Bible said, "Only mark those who have--sigh and cried for the abominations done in the city." Where would He mark in Oakland tonight, if He come through marking? Men and women so sincere about lost souls that they cry and pray day and night for the lost of the city, where's it at? We don't have it. What does the Holy Spirit say then when It comes before the Father? What does He say about His church, His children?

L-41 But now, what if the children's obedient, this little child is obedient? Then the tutor is--was--stretched out shoulders, he walks up before the father with a big smile on his face, and he said, "Sir, your child is progressing wonderful. Oh, he's just a chip off the old block. He's just like you. He acts like you. He conducts himself like you."
And if we are sons and daughters of God, we should conduct ourselves as children of God, not like the world, not act like the movie stars. We're not movie stars; we are sons and daughters of God, a million miles beyond them. We got something that they know nothing about unless they've experienced the same thing. The children of God, how that we should be...

L-42 Then if the father would bring the message, and say, "Your child is progressing wonderfully." Then when it got to a certain age, there was a great feast made or great celebration. The father taken his son, which had been his son since birth. Now, if the son had not been a good child, it would never have any inheritance. That's right. It just went on as a son. But the father couldn't trust the child; he had no inheritance.


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