<TITLE>09. Par 26-28</TITLE>L-26 But men say, "The days is gone." Then we are wondering today... Now, we've had great revivals in the land. Billy Graham, Jack Shuler, Oral Roberts, great men like that who's crossed the country. And they've preached, and they've preached, and they've preached their hearts out. Thousands times thousands come to the altar. And a week after that, thousands times thousands gone away. They don't know what happened to them. Then they wonder. Then we get to a place till we wonder, "How did they stick in the beginning?"
When Mr. Graham, our noble brother and friend, was in Louisville, I attended his breakfast. He certainly give the ministers a rubbing that morning. He said, "I come out here and preach my heart out and get sinners to come up to the altar. And I give them your--the--the card to you. And you set in the office with your feet up on the desk and write them a letter." Said, "You ought to go out and visit them, shake their hands after supper, invite them to your church." Said, "Instead of that, you set in your office and have your secretary to write them a letter." Said, "It's laziness among you." And he really raked them over the coals.
He said, "Now, when Paul went into a city, he got one convert. When he come back the next year, that one convert had made thirty." He said, I go into a city, have thirty converts, come back the next year, I haven't got one."

L-27 "Well," I thought, "maybe, where did Paul go then after he got that one convert?" Paul went on to another city. But he took that convert so deep in God, till he was filled with the Holy Ghost, his heart was burning; he went out and made another convert. That's what's the matter, brother; we don't take them along deep enough in God. We just let them get all emotional worked up under a message somewhere, or some singing, but we should take them on till they're filled with the Holy Ghost, and dead and rotten to these things of the world, and borned again by the Holy Spirit of God. Then the Holy Ghost is burning in that heart; he can't set still; he's got to move and do something. God's all through him, all over him, all in him. His whole objective is God: get somebody saved. Long as Christ is in the heart, he will do the works of the Father every time. And the works of the Father and the will of the Father was to save people.

L-28 Then today, they have the nerve to say, "Where--wonder what happened to the God of the Bible? Where is that God?" Why, you choked Him out by your creeds. You've choked Him out by your traditions. You've tried to place Him back in history. He is a God of history. And what He's waiting on today, that same God of history. That when Moses called on Him at the Red Sea, the God of history rose and made a way. When Joshua called on the God of history at Jordan, He rose up and made a way. When Daniel called on Him in the fiery furnace, He made a way, or in the lion's den rather, and the Hebrew children in the fiery furnace, He made a way. He's still the same God of history. He's waiting for His people to call Him up out of history. That same God remains God. He's God forever. But our traditions, we've taught it away from the people. What we must do is bring that living faith back to people, bring God back.
I seen a little sign today when I was going to eat my breakfast, down in the city, it said, "Put Christ back in Christmas."
I thought, "Amen, that's good, not only Christmas but every day." Put Him back in the church. Bring Him back to the earth again; put Him in action. Let the Christ of God stand in His church, because He said, "I'll be with you, even in you to the end of the world."


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