<TITLE>05. Par 18-21</TITLE>L-18 Papa has a key to the house, and mama has a key, and they're both out and gone half the night; and the children, they don't know where they are. And the little ones are with the babysitter. And that's the way life is lived.
Do you know, the Bible predicts all these things. So what is it, then? It's that we're standing in a position, watching these things run out.

L-19 Let's take church life. There is where it all begins. Church life is running out. The people just take the church today, almost for an idol, like a totem pole. Go set in church five minutes and "I've done my religion,"; pay in your little contribution, whatever it is to pay the pastor, and they don't make that up, they have a little supper, and make it up to the pastor. And if he ain't satisfied, he hauls off to somewhere that'll give him a better wage. Seems like the pastor is not divinely called any more. Just seems like it's begin to be a meal ticket to the pastor, that the people, wherever offers him the most money, there he goes. It shouldn't be that way.
It should be that a man was called of God to a community. And if he had to lay there like Elijah did, on top of the mountain at the brook Cherith, and expect the crows to feed him, he ought to stay till his divine mission is fulfilled. No matter if he gets a penny or not, it should be the call of God, first.
But it's seemingly it's changed to the call of money, or a bigger position, and something on that order, or to become a more popular person in a bigger church, or something like that. And then, the church in their... they have let down. They begin to run out. Just watch it unfold.

L-20 Now, I'm yet under fifty years old, and I can remember of going to the Baptist church, and the Methodist churches, and watching them in an old fashion revival when they would shout, and praise the Lord, and walk up-and-down the aisles, and persuade sinners to the altar. You never see that at nowhere no more. They used to have old fashion prayer meetings during the time of a revival. And a sinner in the neighborhood, a boy or girl, and them old mammies and daddies would pray so hard, till they'd pray conviction on those children. And they'd make their way down to the altar, and there come to Christ. But you don't see that no more. It seems like it's running in shallow waters. It just don't seem like it ought to be that way.
And then it used to be that most any of the churches would... Many years ago, when they would have a revival in one church, all the other churches would cooperate. And they would come in and help, and send their members over, and close up churches, and have a revival. You don't see it no more. Now, just what's happened? And what you going to do about it? It's just fulfilling the Word of the living God.

L-21 And it points two posts: one if them, the running out of time, and another one, the coming of the Lord Jesus. For the Holy Spirit definitely spoke and said in the last days the churches would be heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, and despisers of those that were good. So if the Bible has predicted such things to be, how can we expect anything else but that to happen? "Having a form of godliness and denying the power thereof."
Go through this nation today, our nation, and find a little handful of believers that believe, I mean, real believers that believe that Jesus Christ really lives. See, they got the church just to an idol. We've been through that la--the last few days in our teaching. We throw it onto the Catholic church, their idols and bowing to it as they pass by the church. And the Protestants are just as bad--just so they go there once in a while. And maybe some of them just go once a year, and that's on Easter.


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