<TITLE>18. Par 154-160</TITLE>L-154 The woman has got a great place. It's a sacred, nice, wonderful place. But she must keep herself that way, to hold her office as she should, as a mother, as a woman and of womanhood. When the womanhood is broke, the backbone of any nation is broke. And that's the reason, today, our nation is ruined, is because of the immorals of our women. That's exactly right. Sure. It's the rottenness among us, what's breaking it.

L-155   What you need is to meet this Melchisedec one time. Amen. Let Him--let Him bless you and give you the wine, the bread, Eternal Life. Then you'll see things different. Then you'll... It'll be different. You won't want the boys to be making a--a coyote whistle at you, the wolf whistle, or whatever you want to call it. Certainly not. You'll be different.

L-156 And you mean to tell me that you dress like that, and get out there, for any other purpose? You say, "Why, it's cooler." You're story-telling. It is not cooler. Science proves that it's not cooler. It's a... It's the lust that's come upon you, sister. You don't realize it. I'm not trying to hurt you, but I'm trying to warn you. A many a moral woman, just as clean as she can be, a nice little lady, walk out with them things, on the street, unconscious of knowing what she's doing, because some backslidden preacher is afraid your husband won't pay his tithes in the church anymore. If he'd ever met Melchisedec, he wouldn't think those things. He would preach the Gospel. If it scorched the hide off their back, he'd preach It, anyhow. That's exactly right.

L-157   You do it, and you do it because that a spirit of lust is up. And you men that'll let your wives do those kind of things, I've got little hopes of you as a man. That's right. That's right. Now, there's no compliments on that, because... or no apology. Because, that's true. Any man that'll let his wife get out on the street and act like that, brother, you ought to be wearing her clothes. That's right. You, why, my!

L-158   I don't say my wife won't do it. But I have to be changed and perverted, to what I am now, if I ever live with her while she's doing it. And that's exactly right.
My girls, they may do it when they get to be women. I don't say they won't. I don't know. That's up to the mercy of God. I hope they don't. If they do, they'll walk over the prayers of a righteous father. They'll walk over the life of somebody who tried to live right, if they ever do it. That's right. But I want to live right, teach right, be right, and could instruct them right. If they do that, they'll beat their way to hell, over the top of my preaching, and over the top of my Christ, and over the top of my warnings, that's right, if they ever do it. Certainly. That's right.

L-159   Shame on you. If you ever meet Christ, face to face, and He blesses you, and puts that kiss of approval on your heart, all devils in hell will never make you put them on again. That's right. You've changed from death unto Life, and your affections are set on things above and not on the things of the earth. Amen. I better leave that subject. It's ticklish. All right. But it's the Truth.

L-160   All right, as we go on now just a little further, then we're closing.
... verily they that are of the sons of Levi,... receive tithe of the office of the priesthood, and have a commandment to take tithe of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they came out of the loins of Abraham:
But he whose descent is not counted from them that received tithes of Abraham, and blessed of him that had the promise.
And with all contradictions the less is blessed of the better.
And here men that die receive tithes; but here he receiveth them, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth. And I...
And as I may... say, Levi also,... received tithe, received tithe, payed tithes in Abraham.
For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.


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