<TITLE>10. Par 44-47</TITLE>L-44 But brother, that kind of a life ends up in suicide. It ends up in the divorce court. But what makes a person want to do it? Now, here's where my text lay, and here's where I want to get to you. The reason that you do that, and people does that, and thirst for life, is because God made them to thirst for life. But He made a man up in his mechanism to thirst for God's life. And the devil perverts it over and tries to satisfy that blessed thirst with sin.
That's what makes women smoke cigarettes. That's what makes men smoke cigarettes. That's what makes you get out and strip yourself on the streets and wear shorts. That's what makes these people do the way they do. That's what makes the men and women live dishonorable to one another. That's the reason you stay home on Wednesday night to watch "We Love Sucy" or something like that, instead of staying at prayer meeting, and it's because the devil has give you a lemon. He's perverted that godly thirst in you and trying to satisfy you with his own slop out of hell. Right. God made you to thirst.

L-45 What makes men gamble? What makes men carry on? What makes these little girls and boys out here in these old boogie woogie, rock-and-roll, ungodly things, is because the Sunday school has let down, and the home has let down, and the parents has let down, and the nation's let down.
Men sings the songs that inspires him. The reason they sing Elvis Presley's "All Shook Up" is because they didn't teach them the "Rock of Ages, Cleft For Me." that's the reason.
The reason that people don't believe in shouting tonight, but will scream at a ball game, is because they've been taught such things and kept away from the glorious Presence of the Lord Jesus that gives them that satisfying portion.

L-46 Oh, how people do. It's because that the devil has taken that blessed holy thing, that God has give you, and dare you to try to satisfy that holy thirst in you, that God gave you to thirst after Him, and satisfy it with the things of the world. You'll never be able to do it. It cannot be done. And if you think you're living, because you're living a little better than somebody else, a little higher in the world, you've never started living, till you let that thirst be satisfied by that "Fountain filled with blood, drawn from Emmanuel's veins, where sinners plunged beneath the flood, lose all their guilty stains."
There's no satisfaction until that thirst is quenched by God's Presence. But the devil tells you, "You want to be modern."
"Oh, if I can just be like Sucy," or ever who that woman is that they all stay home on Wednesday night to see--"We Love Sucy" or something like that. "Lucy," that's right. Yeah. You getting pretty "loosey," all right. I'll admit that.

L-47 And when our nation gets to a place... The other day I stood, and I was shocked, when my hotel room, just across from the YMCA... And they were teaching the young children in the YMCA rock-and-roll. Not only that, but they teach it in the churches. How can you expect anything else, but a teen-age rioting hoodlums like we're having today.
They call it the parents... What is the modern parent, the modern church member? I don't want to hurt you, but I'd rather scare you a little bit now than you to be lost in hell someday, and me responsible for it.
Where do you find mama? At some card party. What about dad? Down at the pool room. What about Junior? Out at a--out running his hot rod, up-and-down the road, racing. That's Sunday. Where's sister? At a rock-and-roll party. And you talk to them about God, they say, "I belong to certain-certain church. I'm as good as you are." They know no more about God than a Hottentot would know about an Egyptian knight. That's right. Only thing they know is some catechism or church creed, their name on some book, and never been born again of the Spirit of God. What we need is an old fashion God-sent Pentecostal revival. Not only do they need it in the Methodist and the Baptist church, we need it in the Pentecostal...?...


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