<TITLE>06. Par 32-35</TITLE>L-32 Here sometime ago, I was in a great city. And we were having a revival. And that night when I went up to my room, there had been a little club, one or--or noted lodges in America, was having their jubilee there, or some kind of a convention. And I noticed the people drinking, carrying on. This great hotel with hundreds of rooms in it, as I was taken up to my floor, and was let out, I started walking down to my right, and I heard someone carrying on. I looked, coming down along the doors, and there were two young women, probably between twenty-five and thirty. Perhaps mothers, had taken off their wedding ring. They were in their underneath garments, and the men was pulling them from one room to another. I stepped back in the shade to watch and to pray for them as they passed by.

L-33 And as one of them come out, both beautiful women, perhaps with a husband at home taking care of the children... And they called that innocent fun. It's sin to the utmost. God will make you answer for that. And He will not hold you guiltless.
And as they came out, passed by, they had a bottle of alcoholic beverage in their hand of some sort; they passed it one to another, too drunk to talk to. And one of them turned the bottle up, and taking a drink, and handed it to the other one, and said, "What if our old men knew we were having a lot of fun like this?" And the other one kicks her foot way up in the air and pulls her garment up to her head and hollered, "Whoopee. This is life."
I stepped out in the middle of the floor. I said, "Lady, it's death." They grabbed that bottle of whiskey, and down the room they went as hard as they could go. "But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she is alive."
That's not life; it's death. That kind of a life gets so miserable until men take a gun and blow their brains out. You couldn't call that the kind of life that David was speaking of. No, it's a perverted life. It's a life that the devil is trying to have you to live.

L-34 Now notice, the perverted life, the devil inspiring it... That life becomes miserable. I've never seen it in all stages from the rich to the poor. I've had the privilege of being in king's palaces, from that to the lowest haunt on skid row. And I've never seen a contented sinner in my life. That's right. There is no happiness or contentment outside of Jesus Christ. I've seen them so rich till they had bodyguards with them. And I've seen them so poor till they begged for a drink of whiskey. And from the one to the other there's no satisfaction in sin. Then what do they call that life? How could you call it life when you want to take it? It's not life.
Now, if the devil can't get you to do something like that, he's done something else. He will let you be a gentleman, and you'll pay your honest debts; you'll treat your neighbor right. You'll even join church, and think that you've got life, but that still is death. "For except a man be borned again, he will in no wise enter the Kingdom." If the devil can't get you to see a truth, he will push you out the deep end.

L-35 So joining church is not life. Singing hymns is not life. Preaching the Gospel's not life. Only one way you can have life: that's to know Him. You don't know, and have life by knowing the catechism of your church. You don't have life by knowing the Bible. You'll have life by knowing Christ in the free pardon of sin, is the only way that you can have life.


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