<TITLE>17. Par 64-68</TITLE>L-64 You've got to forsake everything, and you have to make your choice now. Are you ready to forsake everything to follow after Him? If God goes to putting a thirst in your heart, you'll forsake everything in the world. I walked away from my own father and mother, a home. I got a wife and three children setting right out there now. If they would tell me, "No more preaching," I'd walk right straight away from home, yes, sir, as much as I love them, die for them right here easily. But Christ is all.
He's my objective, and I... My motive to Him is to sacrifice everything that I have to follow Him, whether I'm called a fanatic, whether I'm called a Divine healer, a holy-roller, what ever it might be. I don't care for the things of the world, and I don't believe any Christian does. We want to follow Christ. That's my objective: Follow Him; lift Him up. That's what we need today, is people of that--willing to sacrifice.

L-65 Now, the little queen had some smart ideas; I'd like for you to notice. She said, "Now, I have never seen this; I don't know nothing about it." So, I'd imagine the first thing the little queen did was purchase her a Bible, so she could read and find out. She said, "Now, if it's some kind of a put-up, it won't be according to the Bible--their Bible. But if their Bible has predicted such a thing, then it will be right."
Now, that's what Christians ought to do. When you come to a meeting, don't condemn; first search out the Scriptures. She... What if they'd have been... What if they'd have been that sincere with Jesus?
Said, "Search ye the Scriptures for they are they that testify of Me, and in them you think you have Eternal Life. You think you have Eternal Life, and they testify of Me." That's right, surely.

L-66 He told the Pharisees--those great clergymen of that day--said, "You can look at the sun, and it's lowering, and you say, 'Tomorrow it's going to be foul weather; and if it's clear tomorrow, it will be fair weather.'" Said, "You hypocrites! You're supposed to be clergymen, and you can discern the things of the world better then you can discern the signs of the times."
If that ain't the truth today. Everybody interested in who will be President. I am too, but what difference does it make? I want to know Who will be King of eternity: Christ. That's the main thing. I want to know about my nation. I'm interested in it; I'm an American. I'm interested in my nation. But brother, let that be second; my God is first. Yes, sir.

L-67 But the thing of it is, they take the nation, the things of the world, "Who will be--who will play this play with certain-certain movie star?"
A lot of people, many people today, church members, Pentecostal people, Baptists, Presbyterians can tell you more about the movie life than they can the Bible life. More children can tell you about Davy Crockett, or--or Gunsmoke, or some of them then they can about Jesus Christ, is because that's what they're taught in their homes. And then talk about juvenile delinquency; it's parent delinquency and church delinquency. That's exactly right. Clergy delinquency of preaching the Word, and--and God working with the church, confirming the Word with signs a following.

L-68 Ananias and Sapphira is living in the church, on the side of the church and never called out and told their sins, because they're the heaviest payers there is in the church. Some Ananias with a great job can put in five thousand dollars a year; he could drink, smoke, gamble, commit adultery, and he can be deacon at the same time. Brother, I'm telling you, when the Spirit of God comes into the church, It'd tear that thing open and rip it out, like He did when He come the other time to the temple. Money changers...
"Lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, despisers of those that are good, heady, high-minded, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof; from such turn away." I'm quoting the Scripture, I Timothy 3.


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