<TITLE>06. Par 19-22</TITLE>L-19 Now, I don't condemn sinners for the way they live; that is all they know. I feel sorry for them. I don't blame a sinner from going out and getting drunk. That is all the pleasure he has. Give him another one. I don't blame him from gambling, going to places, and honky-tonks; that's all the pleasure he's got. I don't blame a pig for eating out of a manure pile; that's all he knows. But you people, who call yourselves Christians and do it, you're the guy that I'm firing at. You know better.
You wouldn't want to see a lamb go to dinner with a pig, would you? Be something strange, but it wouldn't be strange for the pig be e--eating there. So where your nature is, there's where you eat. What's your diet? If you're Abraham's seed you believe God and like heavenly things. You see it? That's... Separate yourself; come out and be a pilgrim and a stranger.

L-20 God calls every man to separation, not one exception. Every man that comes to Christ must separate himself from the things of the world. To have faith in God, you can't walk around where people are, and be in people, and associate with people that's in the wrong thing and expect to have faith. You can't get around where Thomases is at and--and all of his children, and where they say, "Oh, the days of miracles is past, and there is no such thing as that." The first thing you know, that spirit will get on you. Come out from among them the Bible says. Separate yourself; be separated. "Touch not their unclean things and I will receive you, saith the Lord."
The trouble of it is we have got to much Hollywood preaching and not enough old time rough preaching. I like the old time kind that really tears the hide off of you, brings it down to a place where it belongs. To much petting around, we need the old fashion Gospel (Amen.) preached in its power of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. That's what the world needs today. Total annihilation...

L-21 Watch, now as they went out, the test come. Every time that a man really steps out to serve God, he goes through testing. God gives you a little training, child training. It is not very pleasant the Bible said, for a while, but it yieldeth forth peaceful fruits.
My daddy used to take me out behind the house with a strap of leather, about like that, got some good old fashion child training. It's too bad that our children don't get it today. The trouble of it is, you cigarette smoking, cocktail drinking, picture show running mothers, run around on barflies and things, and letting a babysitter take care of your kids, instead of being being home taking care of them like God gave them to you, that's what caused all this stuff they get in. That's exactly right.
No wonder you can't have faith. How can you associate with the things of the world and try to associate it with Christ? God calls for separation; then trials and testings come. The Bible said if we can't stand the trails and testing, then we become the legitimate children--illegitimate. "Bastard children," the Bible calls it, and not the children of God. We can't stand the trails and testings.

L-22 A famine come and Abraham run. Then after God appeared to him, coming back... He come into the promised land again. There he was a sojourner, built an altar to the Lord and worshipped the Lord. Then he had one little old parasite hanging on him yet; that was his nephew Lot, a lukewarm believer. That's what the mat... That's the kind that makes God sick at His stomach. He said He would spue them from His mouth. A wishy-washy border line, got enough religion to make him sick, that was Lot. And when the herders got to fussing, then he--Abraham said "Now, we are brethren; let's separate ourselves; we don't want any trouble among us."
And Lot went down to the well watered Jordan plains, and down in there because he pitched his tents towards Sodom, and become a great man, backslid down there. On his road down...


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