<TITLE>05. Par 13-16</TITLE>L-13 I wonder, when this United States of America, which is my home sweet home, when God's great Book is opened at the day of judgment, and this nation is brought to judgment, and when He points His finger to Billy Grahams and Oral Robertses, and so forth that's crossed back and forth through the nation, preaching the Gospel and showing great signs and wonders of His coming, the Angels of God Who's accompanied their ministry standing there as a witness, when America is asked, "Why they did not repent," I wonder what answer they'll have.
When they continually... the whiskey, and drinking, and devices of the devil continually flow onward. As the Gospel moves, they become more radical with their drinking every year; sin moves up each year, each day. And it seems that it is just a little Christmas story that's told.
But we're living in that great day when the great signs of the coming of the Lord is appearing. And ministers anointed with the Spirit is preaching their heart out, and men still ignore it. I wonder what kind of an answer is going to be given at the judgment.

L-14 One time in the Scripture. After the death of Ahab, one of Israel's most wicked kings, his son, Hezekiah followed him on his throne in Samaria.
And one day while he was walking in the upper porch, he fell through the lattice, and he hurt himself, and he took some sort of a disease. And then he called two of his men and sent them over to Ekron to the god of Beelzebub to consult his prophets, was he going to recover or not?
And Elijah the Tishbite, being a true prophet of God, the Holy Spirit came to him in a vision and told him, "Go up and stand in the way."
God blocks the way. It's not easy to go to hell. It's hard to go to hell. God sends His messengers, and He sends His prophets; He sends His Gospel; He makes His Churches a flaming fire, and men constantly fight right over it. He sends It out over the ether waves of the radio; He sends It over the television; He sends It by the published word; He sends It from lip to ear, and men constantly walk right over it.

L-15 But God sends His prophet to block it. "Why will you go to Ekron to the Beelzebub? Is it because there is no prophet in Israel? Is there no God there?"
Is that the reason people today deliberately go to drunken parties, dance all night, gamble, cheat, try to make a lot of money? Is it because that there is no pleasure in God? Is it because there is no God to give pleasure? The very reason that you thirst for that, is because that you're rejecting God. God made a man to thirst, but to thirst after Him. And if you turn that down, you have to... The devil tries to satisfy that thirst with drinking, and smoking, and gambling, and other things. Is it because we that haven't got a Holy Spirit that brings joy? Is it because there's no satisfaction in Christ that you seek these things?
He said, "Is not there a God down in Israel? Why would you go to Beelzebub, the devil?"

L-16 Is there no pleasure in serving Christ? Is that the reason men continually drink, and go to the church for a covering? You've never tasted the Lord yet. You've never knowed how good He was. If man ever come to the fountain filled with Blood drawn from Immanuel's veins, once plunged beneath that, the sins of the world, and all the devil could offer, would be as dead as midnight. It's because they refuse to do it. Because they refuse to receive the Holy Spirit, God's Balm, is the reason they do.
It reminds me of a man dying on a doctor's doorstep, a man die on a doctor's doorstep, because that he refuses to take the remedy for his disease. If the doctor's got the remedy for your disease, and you say, "I won't take it." You could set on his doorstep, that close to it, and you'd still die, because you refuse the remedy. Then don't lay it on to the doctor. He's got the remedy. He's got the thing for your inoculation, but it's your stubbornness not to receive it.


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