<TITLE>04. Par 14-16</TITLE>L-14 I would wonder today, when I think of this mad stricken, pleasure crazed nation that we're in. Why do we turn to drinking, and gambling, and smoking, and carrying on the way we do to find pleasure, is it because there is no pleasure in the house of God? Is it that because there's no joy in serving the Lord, that we have to hush that precious desire in our heart with things of the world? I wonder what will happen when God requires us at the day of judgment and asks us, "Why did we go to such things as that for pleasure?" when the Christian's pleasure is in the Lord. He has got joy unspeakable and full of glory for His believers. Why does the world long after things like that, to try to satisfy their longings with the things of the world, when the joys of the Lord is for the people of God, old fashion prayer meetings, the Spirit upon the church.
I was a sinner, and I did everything that I was big enough to do in the world. Lots of things I tried, I wasn't big enough to do. But I want to say this: that all of it put together never give the satisfaction like one moment in the Presence of the Lord God. It's all bogus and fantastics. It only speaks those momentarily pleasures of sin, only speaks that there is a real consoling and comfort, and pleasure... lasting pleasure in the Lord. And why would the church of the living God have to resort to such things as that to find pleasure? Our pleasure is serving the Lord.

L-15 And he said, "Go tell him that he's not coming off of that bed, that he's going to die right there." And that's exactly what taken place.
I'd like to quote when these messengers returned back and told the king that they had met a man in the way that told them thus. He said, "What did he look like?"
He didn't have his collar turned around and dressed in clerical clothes. But he said, "He was hairy all over, and had a piece of leather girded around him."
He said, "It was Elijah the Tishbite."
No matter how much they hate the servant of God, when he comes with THUS SAITH THE LORD, they know that that's the truth. The nation knows today that the Holy Spirit and the power of God is the truth. They wilfully turned away from it, and God's going to ask for a reason why. "Why did you go to these things? Why did you go to the world and the mad stricken condition that it's in.

L-16 America is completely pleasure crazed. People will stay home on Wednesday night from their prayer meetings to watch some certain television cast, to listen to some jokes that someone has to pull. Well, I think then, if the church gets in that fix, it really needs a revival. It needs something to bring it back to the real joys of the Lord.
Just like a man that would die on a doctor's doorsteps, with a disease that the doctor had the medicine, the remedy for the disease. A man might lay right at the doctor's doorstep and die there, because that he refuses to take the remedy. If the doctor has the remedy for that disease, and the man comes so close to it till he set on his doorstep till he dies. You can't blame the doctor, because the doctor had the remedy. But you have to blame the patient for not taking the remedy.


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