<TITLE>02. Par 5-8</TITLE>L-5 Now, you won't see Him in a physical body, until He comes for you at the great general resurrection. Then we'll see Him. And then we'll know as we're known, see Him as He is. That's the hour we're all longing, waiting for, that time. Until that time, His Spirit is here. And the church is becoming more like Him all the time.
From the great first reformation in Luther, church had a wide stretch. that was still the Holy Spirit moving in the days of Luther. Then He come into the minority again when John Wesley, sanctification; the second work of grace, he called it.
And then, along come the Pentecost, the restoration of the gifts, still narrowed down. And it's narrowing on out now until the Church and Christ will become one. When it does, the coming of the Lord will be, and the resurrection of all of those that sleep in Him shall rise: Lutheran, Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterian, all that's got His Spirit, will rise to meet Him in the air. God, grant that time right away. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

L-6 I was... It's on my mind; I must say it. I had a case of that, here, some time ago, that I went into a--a city. We were holding a meeting, and I... Somewhere in Ohio (I can't think of the place right now), and it was having a great meeting, so much that, I went out into the country to stay in a little motel.
There was a little Dunkard restaurant just across the road. The nicest, cleanest-looking little women worked in there, and so Christian-like. And I'd been fasting for about three days. And the brethren went on to service. I was to preach that Sunday afternoon. I wasn't going to have a healing service. And I was kindly a little hungry, so I thought, "I'll go over to the little restaurant." But they'd closed up and gone to church; it was Sunday. And just the other side of the road, a filling station and a common little, ordinary American restaurant, like there, and a little sandwich shop.

L-7 (This is horrible to have to say this, but it's true.) And when I walked in, there was a policeman standing, about my age--surely married--and had his arm around a woman, playing a slot machine. Gambling's illegal in Ohio. And there he was gambling. I thought, "Well, the law..."
I looked back at the back, and some of those boys, beatnik-kind with them long hair hanging on their neck, and--and overall jackets, and oh... and pulled down, you know, or clothes down on their hips... Was standing there with their arm around about a sixteen year old waitress where they ought not of had it. I thought, "Oh, mercy..."
And looked to my right, there was a man--summertime--with a big overcoat on (government overcoat), big gray scarf around his neck, another man setting by him, with an--an old woman, old enough to be my grandmother. And she had this manicure on her face, ever what you call the stuff, the little black... I say that wrong every time. What is it you call that? It's something... And... It's... somehow... I tell you, it doesn't belong on Christians; that's one thing sure.

L-8 I'm a missionary. That's a heathen trait. That's exactly right. Pentecostal people used to not do it, but I don't know what happened when... They used to not cut their hair, but I--I don't know what happened. Somebody let down the bars somewhere. We used to say a little song... An old Methodist preacher used to sing:
 We let down the bars,
 We let down the bars,
 We compromised with sin.
 We let down the bars;
 The sheep got out,
 But how did the goats get in?
The answer: you let down the bars.


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