<TITLE>10. Par 35-39</TITLE>L-35 Listen closely now, as we got ten minutes. The people of... The American people don't realize that what they have had. There's been Billy Grahams, Jack Shulers, Oral Roberts, and many great men has passed through our lands, great servants of Christ--them with many more. And yet we stand with more barrooms, and more whiskey, more cigarettes, and the church getting farther away from God every year. Why? It's... You've seen miracles. You've seen signs. You've seen the sign of His Resurrection. You see His power to heal. You see the signs in the skies.

L-36 Here not long ago, when Billy and I entered into India, I read a piece in the paper, and it said... Something happened, it was just the day before that earthquake come. And India doesn't have wire fences like we have. They have rock fences. And before the earthquake come, all the little birds that had their nests in those fences and those great big buildings, they flew out in the middle of the woods. And all the cattle and the sheep, that stood around in the--out of the sun in those--around those fences, they all went out in the middle of the field in the sun, and stood still. God had give them an instinct to let them know beforehand to get away from those walls. Just like He did in the days of Noah.
And if they, by instinct, could tell that destruction was at hand, how much more ought the church to do with the baptism of the Holy Ghost. But we don't see it.

L-37 One time there was a man who was going for a rest down to the sea. And he said to his people, "I want to go down and--to the sea to take a rest. I've never been there."
And on his road down he met an old salt, coming from the sea. And he--this old salt, sailor, said to him, "Sir, where are you going?"
He said, "I'd go down to the sea. I have never seen it. I'd go down to rest," He said, "to smell it's saltwater, to watch the great briny waves lick up, and the big whitecaps break, and to feel the refreshening of the salt air, and to hear the wild gulls as they scream over the ocean. Oh, I'm sure," he said, "it'll be so restful."
And the old sailor said, "Look, sir." He said, "I was borned on that sea. I was raised on that sea, and I don't see nothing so thrilling about it." Why? He had been in it so long, till he'd got used to it, and it offered him no more thrill.

L-38 And that's what's the matter with the Pentecostal church. It's seen the baptism of the Holy Ghost strike it's people. It's seen them change from streetwalkers to godly, saintly women. It's seen men come out of... drunkards, alcoholics, and make preachers and gentlemen. And it's seen the great powers of God, moving and working in signs and wonders, until it's become so common, till the Pentecostal church will hardly walk across the street to see the glory of God. It's too common.
But just remember, there's coming a time when you'll go from the east to the west, from the north to the south, trying to find it, and you won't find it. The Bible said so. He's so good to us.

L-39 This nation has been shook from pillar to post, from east, west, north, and south in the past forty years. It's had every Bible sign that was ever performed: the dead's been raised; the blind sees; the deaf hears; the dumb speak; the cripples walk; the Holy Ghost manifests all nine spiritual gifts. Great revivals changing souls, tens of thousands converted to Christ, and still now it's got to a place it's cooled off.
It got big churches. It's not persecuted so hard. The people got a hold of a lot of money. They go buy great, big, fine churches, and take the fire off the pulpit, and put it down in the basement--just like the rest of the churches. Oh, we just don't know how good he's been to us.


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