<TITLE>14. Par 369-379</TITLE>L-369   I heard a confession today of a little lady that told me that her husband was running with a man. She has caught them, place after place. And the woman says, "I'm going to let you know, 'I'm a Christian.'"

L-370 Look over here at Jimmy Osborne, out here preaching on Sunday morning; and boogie-woogie, rock-and-rolled and everything, through the week.

L-371 Look at Elvis Presley, a 1947 version of Judas Iscariot, joins the Assemblies of God, Pentecostal, speaking in tongues for the Holy Ghost, and sent more souls to torment than all the bootleg joints there's been in the last fifty years. Perverted the mind of little teen-age children all over the world, till little girls would grab off their underclothes and throw it on the platform, and him to autograph. So vulgar that they won't show him in the television, from his waist down, the way his body. The Holy Ghost, speaking in tongues, for evidence? Oh, brother, if the Holy Ghost was there, It wouldn't act like that. You know better than that. Certainly not. God loves cleanness and purity and holy.

L-372   I don't act clean and pure and holy to make myself a Christian. But Christ, in me, lives that in me. And I love Him. And if I do anything wrong, it condemns me, right there. I say, "God, forgive me." Every day, I got to ask forgiveness, every day. And you do, too. Certainly, you do.

L-373 But now if you're--if you're carnal, you just wait on back, say, "Ah, well, that's all right, I belong to church." See? And then when you blaspheme, is when you don't have the Faith that was once delivered to the saints. Then you make fun of That, and call It, "An evil spirit." Say, "That's a bunch of holy-rollers." Then, you separate yourself between grace and judgment, then you're finished forever.

L-374   Jesus said, "One word against It, will never be forgiven in this world or the world to come." And a Christian, born of the Spirit, can't say evil about That, 'cause it can't. It agrees with It. That's right.

L-375 That's the reason people try to tell me, that Pillar of Fire there, that appears here with us, they try to say, that, "That was the Devil," that, "It was just fiction," all this. But the camera proved that It wasn't. And the works lay right exactly on the Bible, same Pillar of Fire that met Paul on his road to Damascus. All these things that He done back there, is doing it just exactly the same way, by the Bible. He's Christ, the Son of God.

L-376 And when we are born again, we have everlasting Life, and cannot perish. It would be impossible for a man to fall. That's what the Bible said.

L-377   Now, listen, watch what Paul says. I'll read the rest of it, and see if that don't sound right, now. Let's go on, just a minute. The 8th verse.
But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned. (That's the unbeliever.)

L-378 Now watch Paul. "But, beloved,..." Now he's talking about them is trying to get back under the law, you know, trying to do all the works of the law, yet they're just as ritual as they can be. They have baptisms and the laying on of hands, and all these things.
But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you,...
There you are. Listen at him now.
... and things that accompany salvation, though--though through this we thus spake.
For God is not unrighteous to forget your works and labours of love, which you have showed towards his name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

L-379   See what He's talking about? He's not talking about Christians falling away, impossible to come back. He's talking about carnal believers who go through the form of reformation. "But," he said, "to you who was born again, you who are Christian, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you. You don't say those things. You don't live that type of life. You're secured with Christ."
What did he say back here? Now let's go to Hebrews 10, where we was at this morning, again. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]


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