<TITLE>04. Par 32-47</TITLE>L-32 And what a time they must have been having. And I can imagine this here king Belteshazzar was a modern Elvis Presley; he could do a lot of their fantastics that they had. And all of their carrying on, and not knowing all the time that death laid at the door...
So as the party got into good swing, usually just about like a great setting of a modern Hollywood telecast, they thought they would crack some good jokes about religion; about like an Arthur Godfrey outfit, or something like that modern today, or some Ernie Ford pea-picker, crack some kind of a joke about the preachers. But God still looks down from heaven. But they thought they lived in such a nation that it could not be touched. But you reap what you sow. Just be aware of that, people. Whether you are a nation, or a church, or an individual, you reap what you sow.

L-35 And my, I can see this king stand up, and said, "Just a minute, girls; let's have a good religious joke on the preacher," or so forth.
And all the tinsel a-flying, and the young ladies saying, "Whoopee! Yes, I believe we'd like to hear that."
And the young soldiers a-carrying on like the teen-agers of today, for this is no more than a modern Babylon. I am an American, but so did Daniel belong in Babylon at that time. But that don't excuse sin.
Said to a girl one time, "Are you a Christian?"
She said, "I give you to understand; I am an American."
I said, "That don't speak nothing," not at all.

L-38 I'm glad to be an American, but that has nothing to do to reflect Christianity, not a thing. If we sin, we're going to pay for our sins, just be it assured to you.
They had a prophet there, but they wouldn't listen. They had the message, but they wanted to make fun of it. If that isn't modern America, I don't know it. They've got the Gospel, the Truth, but they like to make fun of It.
So they said, "Let us go down and get them holy-roller vessels, and bring them up here and have a good joke out of it."
God doesn't permit sinners to make fun of His people. You'll pay for it someday.

L-43 And they go get the vessels of the Lord and bring them up into the temple, and they're going to have a good drink out of the vessels of the Lord. And when they poured their Oertel's 92 or Pabst Blue Ribbon into it to have a good joke out of it, oh, they tipped the glasses and the vessels, and begin to drink, and laugh, and make fun of the religion of the Lord. They were ignorant of what they were doing.
And so is this nation tonight ignorant of rejecting the message of the Lord Jesus Christ in the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and being borned again.
Though they were religious... Now, that drunken party of rock-and-rolls, they were religious, because the Bible said that, "They praised their gods."
So you can be ever so religious and still be wrong. That's right. It's not the sincerity. "There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is the way of death." So they had a great state church, and a religion that they could serve, and they made fun of the holy things of God.

L-47 And that's very typical of today, making fun of the holy things of God. They call the people that try to live clean and decent, and upright, they call them old fashion or holy-roller, or some kind of a scandalous name. And they call the gifts of the Lord, that He's performing, the working of an unclean spirit, like a fortuneteller or a devil. Oh, how can you escape judgment? The blood of the martyrs call against it. If God doesn't judge this nation for its modern sin, He'll have to raise up Sodom and Gomorrah and apologize to them for destroying them. That's right.
We are bound for judgment. And these great wonders that you see our blessed Saviour doing, they are warning signs that judgment is at hand; and she combed this nation from side to side, from east to west, from north to south, and they spurn It, laugh at It, criticize It, write It up in their papers as nonsense. Think of it, modern Babylon.


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