<TITLE>07. Par 26-29</TITLE>L-26 In the Bible time when the gold beater used to be... They used to take the gold before they had the smelters, and the beater would beat the gold, turn it over, beat it, and beat it till they beat all the dross out of it. And how he knew that it got down to really good gold, all the pyrite and fool's gold and so forth was beat out of it, the beater could see the reflection of himself in it. Then he knowed he had it clean. Listen, my dear friends, today when the Holy Spirit (which is the Beater) will beat the church with the Gospel till the reflection of Jesus Christ shines into the church, then she's pure again. That's right. But we got too much pyrite, and copper, and other things in us yet. It must be brought out and only the beater can do it. A revival is what we need.

L-27 Now, you cannot bring a message of this brand new Holy Spirit baptism into a dry, formal, creedy church. You just can't do it. And now... Now, remember, I love you with all my heart, and I hope that God will let you know. But I've got a little boy at home, going on two years old. If I seen him doing wrong and I didn't correct him, I wouldn't love him. That's right. You your children...
And I want to say this: that our great move of the church of the living God in this nation has become in two factions: One of them is going so stiff and starchy and intellectual; and the other one's went plumb off at the deep end on the other side. That's exactly the truth, brother. That's right. Went plumb to the fanatic side... There's no middle of the road.

L-28 I made that remark some time ago, and a good friend of mine, Roy Weed, the--the state presbyter of Indiana, of the Assemblies of God, he said, "I heard someone say that you should drive in the middle of the road." He said, "You know that's not good ethics. A man in the middle of the road would get run over." I met him; I said, "But look, my dear brother, you just think so much of the things of the world till that's the only way you can judge things by the way it looks."
This is a one way road. There's nobody coming back; you're going on or going off. That's right. Either one way or the other, you'll go either starch, formal, go off the deep end this way, or go on with Christ. You don't turn and come back; there's no coming back. You just move on. You don't have any of them coming back.

L-29 Now, notice, friend, we need a--a new bunch of real consecrated people. That's what we need. Now, the message today, perhaps if we would... If the president would come to this city, he could say five words about something, "You ought to tear out this lake out here" and something another like that, and they'd start draining that lake because the president said so. "They ought to make a subway over here or something another." They would do it just because the president said so.
But, brother, we're reading today from a Book which is greater than any president's word. It is... That our president takes care... I love our president, think he's a wonderful man. He does them kind of things, but--of a national affair. But what I'm speaking about; I'm talking not to the--the city officials in the way of taking care of their city; I'm talking to the church of God by the Word of God. Here's where we need to change.


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