<TITLE>10. Par 30-33</TITLE>L-30 The reason that did is because the love of God went out of the Church. And you stay home on Wednesday night to see some of these plays, like, "Who Love Sucy," or, "We Love Sucy," or ever what that crazy thing is, and it shows where the mind travels. That's right. And you watch these crazy things like Arthur Godfrey. How they'd ever call that Americanism, I couldn't tell you. And Elvis Presley with his "all shook up" rock-and-rolls, the reason you do it, because something's in there, making and craving for that. If the Holy Spirit had that heart filled, you wouldn't have no more desire for it. The Bible said, "He that loves the world or the things of the world, the love of God's not even in him."

L-31 Say, "What are you picking on the women for?" All right, men here you are. A man that'll let his wife smoke cigarettes and wear shorts, shows what he's made out of. There's not much man to him. That's right. Oh, I thought you was the ruler of the house? Looks like you got a new ruler.
What happened? What do you think this Holy Spirit, blushing as the prophet did before God to bring such news as that, that His borned again Church, His sanctified people, has degraded themselves in such a place like that? Then you wonder why America hasn't got a revival. There's truth. God, be merciful to us people.
How can God trust His sacred gifts on a church that's built on them rotten foundations? He will never come to the church and have a revival until that church cleans up and gets right first before God. It has to. I better leave away from that. That's the brother's job to preach that. We'll go on.
Look, there He is. I just love that old fashion, sassafras, back woods, sky blue, sin-killing religion. That's right. It'll save you from sin.

L-32 Now, notice how this tutor would come before the father. And if the son had did wrong, the child was disobedient, how he must've turned his head and said, "Father, I just hate to bring you this message. But, oh, that disobedient child..." What would the father do? Bow his head in shame.
Now, let's change the thought. What if this tutor come before the father and said, "Oh, sir, your boy is just like you. Why, you know, he just acts just like you do. He loves the things that you teach. He likes to run the farm the way you run it." Oh, in a street expression, "He's just a chip off the block. He's just like you."
"You're a holy God. He believes in being holy. You're a great, all-powerful God. He says, 'Amen' to it. You're a great God to work miracles. He believes every Word of it and practices the same."
Oh, how it must please the father. "Yes. That's My son. Sure."
You know what happened then? When that child come to a certain age, that boy that had... If he had been a bad boy and was not exactly what the father could trust him, he never had any inheritance at all. You brethren know that from the Scripture. But if he was an obedient son, and when he become to a certain age, that same son was taken out into a public place, before the public, and he was put up on a high place; and there the father put a robe on him, and he adopted his own son into his family.

L-33 And on this placing of this son, that son's name was just as good on a check as his father's was, because he'd been proven. He was obedient, and his name was good, just the same as the father. That's what Jesus meant when He said, "Ask the Father anything in My Name; I'll do it."
Notice. Then when... God never asked anybody to do anything but what He did it first. He pronounced death upon the human race. He was made flesh and taken death for us.


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