<TITLE>19. Par 66-68</TITLE>L-66 That's the reason I say this, that paint and make-up--if you'd only knowed where that come from; it's heathen trait. Look at them... Go over there in Africa and look at them women, how they make this mud and paint themselves, hundreds of years before your grandma ever used it. Sure. You see what it is? It's of the devil. It's got no business in the Pentecostal churches: it's got no business in them rings.
I tell you, we need a good old Holy Ghost washing, all the way from the pulpit, plumb to the janitor. That's exactly right. A Holy Ghost washing, cleansing our people... Men, Pentecostal men, saying, "I just can't keep from smoking." A man married two wives and be a deacon in a church... Kick him out. Certainly, that's the thing to do. You got to get things... The Bible said that the deacon should be the husband of one wife. that's exactly right. Some of them have two or three in Pentecostal ranks. Brother, we can't have a revival, till we get this thing cleaned up. How can you build upon a foundation that's not right?

L-67 As I said to you last night, Mexico, down there, they built that beautiful city. But they were so sure they was going to make it so glamorous with all the outside, now the city's setting backwards: their--their big fine buildings are rocking back. Why? They didn't get to the foundation. Certainly not.
I heard a certain minister the other day, bring a little child to the phone--or the microphone (four or five of them), and stood there after he said there was no such a thing as some great Bible teaching. Brought that little child there, and took a salt shaker, and throwed three drops of water on their head, and said, "I baptize thee, in the Name of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost." And passed that little child on to be a member of the church, not six months old yet. Why, the poor little fellow hasn't got a chance. He got started on the wrong foundation to begin with.
That's not even in the Bible. That's a heathen trait. It's not even in the Scripture. Brother, we'll never get started till we get on the foundation and start right: build by the Holy Spirit upon the Word of God. That's exactly right. No one in the Bible was ever sprinkled. No such a thing. The greek word "baptize" means "to be covered up, buried, hid away." That's exactly right.
Now, but what do we do? We get a bunch of creeds and things, go to living by them, and all such stuff as that. "Doctor so-and-so said so."
Well, I want to know what the Bible says. I want to hear and recognize it to be God by His Word, then let me act upon it.

L-68 These artists, a bunch of artists, went to Rome to study art. All of them would go out of nighttime, most all of them, and get on a big drunk, boys and girls, and lay out together just as a--some of the modern Americans do. Layout...
I went to a place, here in this very state, where they was having a convention. And I never was so embarrassed in all my life. There's a great big fellow setting up there with a big hat on, all flowered up like this, and all kinds of robes, and things on. And the little boys and girls of sixteen, seventeen years old, sleeping together in the hotel room. The next morning, all of them coming down, bowing down and "Father So-and-so..." Oh, my, just to think; perverting them poor children's mind into such stuff as that, when God raised them to be sons and daughters of God, to be pure and holy, sanctified by the power of God, washed in the Blood of the Lamb.


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