<TITLE>14. Par 58-60</TITLE>L-58 But what happened? Then the devil tries to satisfy that thirst for you. "Well, John's got a better job. Bless God. We've went and left that old holy-roller church and we went over to this one." See where you went?
All right then. Here's another thing. The devil try to satisfy it with--with television, with drinking, with gambling, with wearing ungodly clothes, selfishness.
And I went into a church here not long ago. They wanted me to hold a revival. And the preacher actually had to let loose after about twenty minutes of sermon and let all the deacons go out and smoke cigarettes. Brother, there we had--we had a revival one night, and the next night I was throwed out. But they heard about it anyhow. The blood's off of my hands. What do you think Christ would do if He was on earth today? He--He'd break more than a couple of ropes together to beat them out: "Make My house a den of thieves."

L-59 And another thing the devil tries to do to quench that thirst, you say, "Well, I'm very religious."
Said to a woman here not long ago on the platform, I said, "Are you a Christian?"
She said, "I'll have you understand; I burn a candle every night." That's the strength of Christianity, so called. You might burn a bonfire, and it'd never do you any good unless the Holy Ghost and fire is lit into your heart.
I asked a man on the west coast; I said, "Sir, are you a Christian?" I wanted to catch him right there and tell him to his face.
He said, "I'm an American."
I said, "That don't have one thing to do with it, not a thing."
Walking through a pig pen don't make you a pig. That's one thing sure. You've got to be born again, then your habits are different.

L-60 Did you ever take the crow and the dove? In the ark they both sit on the same roost. One could fly just the same place as the other, but the crow was satisfied when she turned loose, went out and fly from one old dead carcass to another where the bugs and things was eating, there she'd on that; it was all right. But the dove couldn't find no rest for her feet. She had to come back. She couldn't stand that old stink.
You know, a crow is one of the biggest hypocrites there is. You take a dove, will fly down in a field of wheat and eat wheat. A crow can fly on an old dead carcass and eat his belly full and come over here and eat wheat too. But the dove cannot come from the wheat field to the dead carcass. No, sir. Anything sickening is a hypocrite. I'd rather be an infidel any time. But an old hypocrite will go to church, and stick their nose up in the air, and act like they're somebody, take off for the things of the world and say, "Well, my pastor's broader minded than your narrow minded pastor." You poor, decrepit I don't know what. You need an old fashion pastor that'll shake your hair for you, that'll tell you the truth.
Jezebel hated her pastor. Her pastor was Elijah, but he told her what was going to happen. She had to listen anyhow. She wouldn't accept him as the pastor, but God sent him as the pastor. He was God's pastor.


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