<TITLE>06. Par -</TITLE>L-8-2 Did you see that article the other day that this scientist produced his--all of his research? He said, "Not only to cigarettes, does it give you cancer, but you got fifty percent more chance of taking anything else." And you smoke right on.
A woman met me some time ago when I struck at that just hard as I could. She was a habitual smoker. And she said, put a little note in my pocket, said, "Read this when you get home."
I said, "Thank you; I'll read it now," and I took it out and started reading it.
She said, "It is not polite for a minister in the pulpit to speak against smoking. You have nothing to do with that."
I said, "It's my duty to speak against anything that's wrong." God help the preacher that hasn't got a discernment of the right enough. Anything that's wrong... A preacher that can't discern the need of his people by the Holy Spirit... God said, "This body is a temple of the Holy Ghost. If you defile it, I'll destroy it." We should preach against it. The trouble of it is, they got too many cigarette smoking preachers. That's what's the matter. Yeah. And they're afraid to say it in their congregation, because they know they're guilty too.

L-8-7 Rightly discerning, rightly dividing... Whiskey, alcohol's, why, they say that it's harmful. All over your television screen, all over every billboard, in your newspaper is a big cans of beer with lovely young women drinking it. They show you when they start. Look at them a little later from that. It fills their mind with poison toxin. Its increase of insanity is terrible. It causes immorality among the young. And even the churches today are preaching and practicing, many of them, "drink moderately." You know that's the truth. Telling their young folks at home and the parents, "Let your children drink. They're going to drink anyhow, so just teach them to drink moderately." The Bible condemns it. It's not right. God help a man with no more discernment than that, or a church. Can't discern the right from the wrong.

L-9-1 Oh, it's a terrible day that we're living in. Discerning the Lord's Body... In our churches and among our church people today, it's such a shame of the way our women are acting too, many of them wearing immoral clothes, those little shorts. It's so sinful. A lady told me, and many's told me, said, "Billy, you better quit talking about that." No, sir. I may have to preach to posts, but I'll be telling the truth. That's right. That's right. It's the truth. Thank you. It's wrong, and it's sinful.
As one lady said to me, she said, "I don't wear shorts; I wear slacks."
I said, "That is worse. The Bible said it's an abomination to God for a woman to put on a garment that pertains to a man." It's the truth. And then the alibi is they don't make any more clothes besides that. But they still make sewing machines and sell goods.

L-9-4 A woman that dresses herself like that, she's going to be guilty of adultery at the day of judgment. You might be as pure as a lily to your husband or boyfriend, but Jesus said, "Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her in his heart already." So you might not have done anything wrong actually, but when you dressed yourself like that, you presented yourself to the man; he's going to have to answer for committing adultery, and you are the blame. And the church is permitting that, not discerning the Lord's Body. What a pity.

L-9-5 Bobbing off their hair. The Bible said that a woman that cuts her hair, her husband has a right to give her a divorce, because she's untrue. He said that she dishonors her head. Is that right? And the man is the head of the woman.
I know that's rough, but we need discernment. We need the discerning by the Word. The Word's right. Take the Word. God's Word's always right.


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