<TITLE>10. Par 40-42</TITLE>L-40 When people gets like that, when you get a place where you can't have a burden on your soul. You get a preacher in your pulpit that can comb his hair down so tight, that'll hold his mouth open and grunt, and say "aaaaamen" like a dying calf; and then think you got some kind of a star, because he's got a doctor's degree.
I'd rather have my family setting there, would listen at a preacher didn't know his ABC's, didn't know split peas from coffee, and knowed the Lord as his Saviour, then all the great...?... And their tuxedos...?... the turned-around collars. Certainly. The devil's always full of that. That's exactly what started it in the beginning. He's still on the move.

L-41 Now, I want you to notice just a little further. As they had this great party, they were dancing and having a big time and drinking their very best, of Oertel's 92, or whatever they had in that day, just a showing off, and having their big time, and dancing, and everything. The didn't know what was going on in the outside world.
And neither did this nation know what was going on in the outside. What happened at the first war? When everybody down on their knees, saying prayers, and praying and crying to bring the boys back. And what did you entertain them with when they come back? Beer, whiskey. That's what they were entertained with to begin with. You ought to have been on your knees, thanking God, yet, saying, "Keep us out of war, Lord." What a disgrace it is, what a shame in the sight of God.

L-42 Now notice. Instead of the women putting on their clothes and acting like ladies, look the way they did. Instead of men coming back to church and serving God, what are they doing? Out, carousing, running around, drinking, smoking, all kinds of nonsense; care no more about God, and know no more about Him, than a Hottentot would know about an Egyptian knight, and yet they claim to be Christians.
If you're a Christian, you'll live like it. The fruits of the Spirit will follow you. If the Life of Christ in you, you'll live the Life of Christ. You go to a pumpkin vine, you find pumpkins. You go to a grape vine, you find grapes. Jesus said, "I am the Vine; you're the branches."
And we come to the church and what do we find? "My denomination is better than yours." "We're not cooperating in that meeting." Oh, my. Arguing, fussing, stewing, that's not Christ. Certainly it isn't. But the day we're living in...
And oh, I can see them just having a big time. And after a while, about like some of our radio or television comedians, or movie stars, they wanted to have some fun, crack a joke about the bald-headed preacher or something, you know, something that they like to make fun of religion.
Like people, them guys come out here, and Elvis Presley, and make a--a little album, or some kind of a religious service, or some kind of religious song, and then go out and say he's religious: Rock-and-roll on one side, and religion on the other side. You can't get bitter and sweet water from the same fountain. It's nothing but a lie of the devil. There's only one difference between Judas Iscariot and Elvis Presley. Judas Iscariot got thirty pieces of silver for selling Christ. Elvis Presley was a Pentecostal boy; he sold out Christ and got a fleet of Cadillacs and a million dollars. That's the difference.


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