<TITLE>09. Par 35-39</TITLE>L-35 And the next morning, the matron dismissed her as a perfect case. And she flew to Chicago and give testimony on the platform the very next night. And Chicago's got just as much whiskey in it tonight as it had before then. Every nightclub is open; the women are still wearing shorts, smoking cigarettes; and the church is wading on in sin just as it always did.
Why? They feel they're secure, because they belong to a church. Because you are an American.
Brother Bosworth said he asked a woman, sometime before he was going away, "Are you a Christian?"
Why, she felt insulted. She said, "I give you to understand; I burn a candle every night." What's a candle got to do with it?
And another one said, "Are you a Christian?"
He said, "I'll give you to understand, I'm American." What's that got to do with it? Just about as much as a candle's got.

L-36 You're not a Christian until you've accepted Christ and been born by the Holy Ghost, and a new creature. Anything less, you're lost. You might be Pentecostal, baptized forward, backward, this way, that way. You might have sung in the Spirit, spoke in tongues, danced in the Spirit, whatever you might've done; but if you're not truly born of God's eternal Spirit, you're lost. And if you are, the fruits of the Spirit declare what you are: Love, joy, peace, long suffering, goodness, meekness, gentleness, patience, in the Holy Spirit.

L-37 Secure, oh, how Babylon thought they were secure; they had everything. They had religion. So there come a time that their women got immoral. Their men got feeling, their preachers, to a place that they were the only ones on the beach; there was no one else but them. And they had a--a king down there, which was a modern Elvis Presley, a big-time boy, pea-picker Ernie, or some of them, like one of our big great men of today, is so-called in America.
So he throwed a big rock-and-roll party. And he invited all the celebrity to come. And he was going to have it just in modern rock-and-roll. And so...

L-38 You see, there's nothing new; it's just got a new name. Old Charlie Barleycorn that you grandmothers, they used to say is a old scarecrow with his hat pulled down, liking to feel that old whiskey and beer. He was old Charlie Barleycorn. Brother, he's got on an tuxedo, call... He sets in a bumper in every ice box today. He's in class. But he's still the same old devil. Exactly right.
They might not have called it a rock-and-roll, but it was a rock-and-roll. And this big-time boy that they had in that day, he said, "I'm going to throw a big party. I'm going to really have one." So he invited all the soldiers, and he got the best whiskey and the beer, that they could find in the nation. And all the women got baby setters for their babies. And--and all of them come up there to dance with these soldiers. They were having a real time. I'd imagine they had a modern telecast. All the fringe hanging down, a great big garden, in the back of the temple... They put up the big candles, and they had lots of light back there. And, oh, what a modern time they were having.
I'd imagine all those women throwing their feet in the air, and hollering, "whoopie," and these soldiers drunk. They were drinking and carousing, as the Bible expressed that they was.

L-39 And they'll be doing the same in this time. What's any different from that and our America today? What about all these nightclubs and so forth? And ninety-five percent of them are so-called Christians. That's exactly right.
Some time ago... I haven't the time to tell it. I run into a hotel room. And there were Sunday school teachers and all setting there, drunk, and couldn't help one another. That's correct.
Now, and when they had this big party... You see, no one could bother them; they had the best scientists in the world. They were protected by walls two-hundred-and-fifty-feet high and eighty-foot across, guards standing everywhere, the best chariots, the most eating. They had everything, so why should they worry?


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