<TITLE>05. Par 20-23</TITLE>L-20 But these people were unconcerned about that. They had their own religions, so they lived by them. You know, "there is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is the ways of death."
Now, in this city they had a king that was one of these modern frolic boys. Oh, something like some of our radio comedians, a modern Arthur Godfrey, or Elvis Presley, or someone like that. Oh, he was a great big-time boy. And he liked his big time. So he was going to throw a little rock-and-roll party for all of his people.
Oh, if that hasn't been a curse. And to think that men and women who call themselves servants of Christ, indulge in such stuff. Records in their house on their machine... Throw the things out the door.

L-21 And this fellow thought, "Well, now, we'll just have a great big time." And he sent out a great invitation to all of the celebrity. He chose the--his chosen ones: the ones who could dance the best, and the women who was the most fairest, and he brought them all into a great big swinging garden just behind the palace, for a modern dance. And they were going to have a lot of fun. And all of the soldiers and all of them got on a good drunk. If that isn't modern America, I don't know where it's at. So they were having a great time.
And they lit up all the tinsel just like a good television show. And they were back there, women, no doubt with baby-setters at home taking care of their babies. And the Bible said he called in all of his concubines. And concubine was a legal prostitute. And the only differences of today, they're still the same thing, but not legal. And they left their babies home with baby-setters. And they put on their new, modern clothes, their little skirts and so forth. And they went to the king's shindig, a rock-and-roll party.

L-22 Oh, can't you see America in that same place? "Oh, the king en--endorsed it, so it must be all right. If the king does it, well, that settles it." Well, just because America lets you sell whiskey, cigarettes, and tobaccos, and beer, that doesn't make it right in the sight of God. God will judge sin.
You say, "Well, our nation sells it." But you ought to have a real principle of man and woman or keep away from it. Our nation is governed by the devil like all other nations are. The Bible says they are. So you can't go with the way the--the nation is governed.
Satan said, "All these kingdoms are mine. I'll do with them what I want to." And he said to Jesus, "I'll give them to You if You'll worship me."
Jesus knew He would fall heir to them in the millennium, so He said, "It is written. Thou shalt worship the Lord Thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve." That's good preaching to the church, let alone to Satan. No matter what you've got, we are commanded to worship the Lord our God and Him only shalt we serve.

L-23 So the king set the great dinner, and he got all of the food ready, and their best beer, and their wines (the best advertised they had), and he was going to have a great big time. And he invited all the Hollywood girls, and all of them, and they all come up, and the best dancers that they had. And they were all in this big garden out there having themself a modern rock-and-roll. What a time: dancing, drinking, making merry. Don't the Bible say they'd be that way? Said they'd be, "heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than the lovers of God. Trucebreakers, incontinent, fierce, and despisers of those that are right with God." What a day we are living in.


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