<TITLE>06. Par 23-26</TITLE>L-23 But I want to tell you something. I'll correct that. There is no bomb shelter for this bomb they got now. It'll blow a hole in the ground a hundred and seventy-five feet deep, a hundred and fifty square miles. If you went a thousand feet in the ground, the concussion of that would break every bone in your body. There's no place to hide down here.
But I want to assure this church tonight, that there is a place for the Church, and a shelter. It's not made out of steel beneath the ground, but it's made out of feathers: Under His wings, the Church will safely take her place and her position. So that's the only hiding place there is. God has so made it, that there's nothing materially we can lay our hands on. It's either trust or perish.

L-24 Our great nation, as it is a great nation, the greatest in the world... And we're all afraid of communism. You hear all the programs. And I had the privilege of eating breakfast not long ago with Vice President Nixon. And his whole conversation while we was talking was communism. I was just a little holy-roller preacher; I--I felt good to set by his side. But it isn't communism we have to worry about. It isn't the robin that pecks on the apple that hurts it; it's the worm at the core that kills the apple.
And it isn't communism that's hurting America. It's our own rottenness among us, our immorals that's breaking the backbone of this nation. Motherhood is marred, and the church is gone to the dogs. All the great things that we stood for, the great principles and things, has rotted beneath us. So it's our own morals that's killed us, not communism, or any other nation. Sin is a reproach to any nation.

L-25 Motherhood and great principles like that, is broken when mother's pay a hundred dollars for a little snotty-nosed dog (Excuse that expression.), and take it in the house, and give it a mother's love, and...?... practice birth control. Any nation would sink under such stuff as that. And our police allow for her to be stripped in the street, and walk down... Such things as uncensored television casts, of old vulgar four or five times married women, prostitutes of this nation... And the little girls take them for example.
And our stores are loaded down with Davy Crockett and Lone Ranger. Who was the Lone Ranger? There's a--there's ninety percent of the children in this city could tell you more about Davy Crockett than could tell you about Jesus Christ. That's right. Then tell me you fear communism. It's the devil you ought to fear.

L-26 When the mother's turn them home, let them set with a baby setter, and out somewhere in some barroom drinking, and then with the audacity to put her foot on a rail and sing "God Bless America." And she's the greatest indebtiment we ever had. I'm American, and I love my country, but I believe in real Americanism, not this stuff we got today, so-called Americanism; it's rotted and decayed right under us. That's where our troubles lay.
That's what's the matter today, because we felt secure. "Why, there's no nation can whip us." That's right. But there's a God Who will judge us by His Word and by Jesus Christ someday, and the way we treated Christ. That judgment is at hand. And these junctions, these signs, these wonders and miracles that He's did by the hands of His servants, the Gospel that He's preached through Jack Shuler, Billy Graham, Oral Roberts, and many others... And the dead's been raised, and the eyes of the blind's been opened; it is a sign post that we're at the end. Surely, a spiritual people would understand that.


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