<TITLE>07. Par 38-44</TITLE>L-38 In Africa women and men, young and old, no clothes at all, walking through the prairies. Never knowed what a rest room was, or things, or never went out of each other's sight. But they don't know the difference. They don't know the different. But it's customs of nations.
But I said, "Honey, we are different, we're from another nation. We are pilgrims and strangers here; that's what makes these things look so wrong. For the Bible said, 'They that profess such, claim they show that they are pilgrims and strangers, they are seeking a city to come.'"

L-40 A man or a woman in Italy, in France, in Africa, in any other nation, that's ever borned again of the Holy Ghost, don't do those things. They won't wear those clothes. They won't act like that, because they're of another nation whose Ruler and Maker is God. We're from heaven. The spirit that's within you motivates your life. If you are a American, you'll do as the Americans do. If you are French, you'll do as the French do, and criticize the other one. But if you are of God, you'll do the way they do in heaven, because your Spirit comes from above and It controls you.

L-41 A little something you might look at. In the Scripture those who sought this new city acted different. They professed that they were pilgrims and strangers. But on the side of Cain, they become fugitives and renegades. But Christians were pilgrims and strangers. A fugitive has no home; a renegade is a horrible person. But a pilgrim is something real, and from a real land in another nation, trying to find his way home, professing by his living that he has something that he's from another country. There is the reason.

L-42 But yet those people who do so, those people who wear those things... Let me tell you. In South Africa, when I saw thirty thousand raw heathens, naked, blanket natives, sixteen, eighteen, twenty year old girls, boys with not one stitch of clothes standing there with mud in their faces, and painted up, bones through their nose, and blocks of wood hanging from their ears, and cross human bones or some bones in their hair, animals' teeth hanging over them, naked as they come into the world, and didn't know it. But when they received Christ, and fell on their face and received the Holy Ghost, they got up and folded their arms to hold shame to their bosom, as they walked away and found clothes to put on. Why? They become pilgrims and strangers to this world. Hallelujah. They were away from it. Yes, sir.

L-43 Oh, yes, these people call themselves Christians. They belong to churches. They go away and say, "We are Methodists. We're Baptists. We're Pentecostals. We're Seventh-day Adventists. We're this, that, and the other." That doesn't have one thing to do with it. Your spirit, the life that's in you, motivates and tells what you are. Jesus said, "By their fruit you shall know them."

L-44 The church has become like Israel first. They seen all the heathen nations having a king; God was their king. And they seen the heathen nations having king, so they wanted to act like the heathen nations, and they bought themself a king. And as they did it, they got in trouble. Gradually it begin to come in. Gradually the world begin to slip into them. Finally ended up in Ahab. One king coming just a little closer to it, a little closer to it, and finally squeezed the life out of them. And there they went. And when their real King come, they didn't know Him.


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