<TITLE>09. Par 30-33</TITLE>L-30 A guy got after me sometime about a man I had working with me. And he said, "We won't--can't stand for that. That boy smokes cigarettes."
I said, "He's a sinner, he just drives a truck, drove it out here."
That afternoon, a holiness church... He wanted to introduce me to his wife. I tell you; I'm not making fun of anybody, but that poor mortal had a dress on that was so tight; and great big long earrings, and a whole lot of paint; I said, "Is she a saint?"
He said, "Yes, sir."
I said, "She looks like a 'hain't' to me." I said, "That, brother, is a long way's from being..." I don't say that for a joke. I mean, that's the truth. Right. What we need is the Holy Ghost and Fire, and experience in the church to clean out the dross, mold it and burn it. I don't say that for a joke. That's... This no place to joke. I'm just telling you the conditions of the church and what we need. We got... That was in a fine denomination of holiness people too. You got the big church. You got the bigger--you got the bigger a--church, the bigger congregation. You got the best organs. You used to be down on the street with a tambourine in your hand. You'd be a lot better down there with a tambourine in your hand and the Holy Ghost in your heart, than to be down here with a big fine church with plush seats and nothing left.

L-31 I looked at this old train as I went through it. I said, "When's it going to move? Can it move?"
Said, "No, sir."
I said, "I'd like to take a little ride."
He said, "It can't move."
I said, "Why?"
He said, "There's no fire in the engine." That's what's the matter with the church today. It's all plushed up and decorated up with no fire in the engine. You can only move by the fire. Oh, what we need today is some more Holy Ghost and Fire.

L-32 Moses was on fire as he went down. Sure he was.
One time there was a man by the name of Samson. He was the judge of Israel in the days of the judges. And his, so called sweetheart, bound him with some twigs. And he could break them. And then the Philistines come to him. Samson stood there and there was a thousand Philistines around him. Notice, all of a sudden they're... He had an experience, and that was that a double portion of the Spirit of God, exceedingly great, poured out upon him; and he grabbed up the jawbone of a mule and killed a thousand Philistines. How could he do it? After he had had the experience of the Spirit of God upon him, that's when he could slay the Philistines.

L-33 There was a little man; maybe you minister's never read of him. His name was Shamgar. It's found in the 3rd chapter of the Judges and the 31st verse. And he was just a little farmer. He didn't know very much, but he was just an Israelite, just a lay member of the church. And the Philistines were robbers to them in those days, because they wasn't united together. That's the way the devil can do the church: as long as he can make you think, "I'm a Baptist, and I got it all; I'm a Pentecostal, and I got it all," he'll rob just as sure as you're setting there. He's got the church fighting at one another. So then how, if you're shooting one another, he just sets back and lets you shoot it out.


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