<TITLE>06. Par 19-21</TITLE>L-19 And Abraham and Lot had to separate before God could bless Abraham. And Lot, did you notice the carnal condition, yet as a--as a lukewarm church member. He knew that Abraham was living up there in a tent. But did you notice, his religion was so straight, till Lot didn't ask the Angel, "Let me go up with Abraham, my uncle." But he said, "There's a little city down here; I--let me go to that one." He still didn't want anything to do with Abraham. See, that's the way it is today; no matter what you do, the carnal can't associate with the spiritual, no more than you can make oil and water mix. It will not do it.
Therefore, the church needs a good cleansing. What we need today is some old fashion revivals, some sweeping revivals, some power of the Lord. We need men and women who's willing to sell out to everything in this world, to burn every bridge behind them. We need to take the world today, we ministers, like the old Norwegians used to take a country. When they went in by ship, they hit the shore and set the ship afire and burned it behind them. They had no way of escape. That's the way we ought to do: Burn every bridge and every escape. Sell out everything for the Kingdom of God and keep moving on. There's no place of stopping. There's no place of compromising.

L-20 God don't like compromisers. God don't want His Church to look like the world. He don't want it to act like the world. He doesn't want to have anything to do with the world, only to preach the Gospel to the world and to call those forth.
God wants separators. The church wants mixers. They want a pastor who will not be so hard on them, and--and tell them good things, and not dig right down, and just rake the hide off of them. Brother, that's what we need.
Here a few weeks ago in a certain place, I had a vision. And there was a little kitten laying on a--a pillow. And I was raking him like that. And he was just purring, and I noticed above him he had a name. And I thought he's the cutest little fellow, and he was just purring away, like he was sleeping away. And the Spirit said, "Rake him back the other way once." When I raked him back the other way, all the snorting and squalling you ever heard, them green eyes shining, he was the horriblest looking monster I ever seen. Oh, as long as you can let people just go any way they want to, they will give you some catnip, all right, but when it comes to a place... We don't need catnip. We need the power of the Holy Ghost back into the church and back into the building, the resurrected Life of Jesus Christ that cleans us up, makes us new creatures. We need strong wines, not catnip. That's for babies.

L-21 Our mama used to give it to the kids, I think. Some kind of catnip when they got the tummyache. The church has got more than a tummyache; it's anemia. What we need is a blood transfusion, the power of the Holy Spirit to clean up the church world from the life of sin. Women, men, professing Christianity, out to dances, out to big worldly parties, gambling, smoking, dancing; women cutting off their hair, wearing shorts, slacks, all kinds of stuff like that, and then call themselves Christians. There's a weakness somewhere; it isn't in the power of God. It's either in your pulpit, or in you, one. Now, that's all there is to it. It's the truth. We need a cleaning up. The carnal, always enmity...
Oh, sure, it's a hard fight. But I believe if you been ordained to Eternal Life, "All the Father has given to Me, will come to Me."
Now, you say, "Well, I'm just as good as you are." But, brother, you're going to be judged by the works you've done. You're works is going... It proves what you are.
A man said to me sometime ago, said, "If I am judged by my faith, I'm saved. If I'm judged by my works, I'm lost."
I said, "Your works proves your faith." That's right. If you love the Lord, you'll--you'll go right in with everything God says and you'll stay right with it.


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