<TITLE>07. Par 20-22</TITLE>L-20 Please, will you excuse this rude, most rude expression. I do not say it to be bad. I do not say it with malice. I say it with love. Last Saturday, wife and I were going to the grocery. And our little city's just about thirty-seven thousand in population. And they have a new shopping center, which all the people goes out to this Youngstown Shopping Center on Saturday, because many of the great chain stores are there.
And as we drove, of the hundreds of women we passed, we found one with a skirt on. The rest of them were dressed so immorally. My wife said to me; she said, "Billy, look. Don't you believe that that woman knows that she's naked?"
I said, "I don't think so."
She said, "If she doesn't know she's naked, then she's out of her mind."
I said, "No, she's just an American. She follows the American trend. She acts like the rest of the Americans does."
Well she said, "Then aren't we Americans?"
I said, "As citizenship of our flesh, we are. But we are pilgrims and we are strangers here; and we are seeking a City to come." I said, "That's the reason that one American is different from the other. Our spirits has been born from above. And in that land where we come from, the nature and the habits of that land is holiness, cleanliness, godliness. And if the Spirit of that land moves into us, then this land is strange to us." 'Cause your soul and your spirit motivates you; it makes you what you are. And you'll never be able to join churches and get that out of you; you'll still be a church member and make fun of people who preach against such immorals.

L-21 You've got to be borned again from above. Then you are new creatures in Christ Jesus, and you're as Abraham was; you're his children. You are seeking a City whose Builder and Maker is God. That's why you act different. That's why you see things different. You never get customized to this world, because you're from above. You act like the Kingdom you belong in.
I'm glad to be a citizen of America. I think it's the best. But, oh brother, I hate to trust that would being my salvation. The American spirit is vulgarity, evil.
Every kingdom in the world is controlled by the devil. The Bible said so. Satan said, "These are all mine to do with them whatever I want to."
Jesus never denied it. But He knew He was going to fall heir to them in the millennium. And He said, "Get thee behind me, Satan." No wonder the Scriptures said, "Rejoice, ye heavens and all ye earth, for the kingdoms of this world have become the Kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ." Yes. It makes a difference.

L-22 Some people say, "I just can't keep from smoking. I can't keep from drinking." The reason you do this, is because you refuse the Toxin against it. You'll always do it until you take the Toxin, till you get inoculated. The reason people does this is...
That's the reason we got so many different denominational churches. They do this... They know It's Scripture, so they try to bypass it. And many of the great holiness churches is falling into that same rut, trying to bypass it. Go up and shake hands with the minister and say, "I believe Christ to be the Son of God." The devil does the same thing. The reason they do that is to try to bypass the new birth.


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