<TITLE>13. Par 42-44</TITLE>L-42 At the same time, two clergymen setting there with the collar pulled around the other way, and was drinking martinis and wine. And when they finished their dinner with a big pipe and my little four or five year-old boy said, "Daddy, is that God's servant?" A five-year old kid knowed different.
Nothing against those men; they may be setting here now. What I mean to say, brother... You say you're saved, the Bible said, "By their fruits you shall know them." It's not wrong for me to see a sinner right here on the street, drunk. It's not wrong for me to see a sinner with a pipe in his mouth or a cigarette in his hand. It's not wrong; I--I don't think nothing about it. He's a pig; he don't know no different. When I hear a person profess to be a Christian...
I said to one, "What you do this?"
He said, "This is relaxing; this is my pleasure." How the devil has perverted that. God made a man to thirst. God made a man to want pleasure. But He made a man with a place in his heart to want, and to crave, and to relax and get pleasure. But that pleasure is in the Lord. How dare you, you've got no right.
You say, "I'm an American citizen."
Yeah, but if you're a lamb, a lamb forfeits his rights. A lamb don't have but one thing; that's wool. He lays right down, don't kick up a bit of stew about it all, let them shear what they got on, off.

L-43 If you're a real Christian, a real lamb of God, you're willing to forfeit your American rights to be a Christian, 'cause your nature's changed. Sure. God in a heart, fully Lord in control...
You say, "Why..." People are ashamed to say "amen." People are ashamed to praise the Lord.
I believe it was Finney, Charles G. Finney (I'm not sure it was Finney; I believe it was), that was going out behind his study, or his office to pray. And one day while kneeling out there in the--under an old tree that had blown down, he was praying. And while he prayed, he thought somebody was coming up, and he stopped quickly, and cleared up his throat and said, "Hmmm, hmmm." And raised up and looked around. And there God convinced Him.
He said, "You're ashamed of Me. But you'd think it was a great thing if somebody seen you talking to your boss. You'd stand right by your boss and talk, think it was a privilege. Let all the office people see that you had the privilege of talking to your boss. And I'm your Lord and you're ashamed of Me."
He fell on his face and said, "Lord God, forgive me as a sinner."
He said he preached the same messages that he'd preached before, but the next time he preached them, they was inspired. It done something. The Holy Spirit took a hold of him. He become one of the greatest ministers since Saint Paul. Why? He let God come in and take control, took his own private life, his pride as a scholar, whatever he was.

L-44 If you're willing to do that, if you're willing to let God have the right of way in your heart. Let's go to another door before we leave the subject.
There's another door in the heart called faith. This is a great door. Oh, you let Jesus come in to save you, but when it comes to giving you God-given faith, you turn Him away from that door.
"Don't tamper with this. My church preaches the days of miracles is past."
But if Christ ever comes into that door, here's the words He will say, "I'm the same yesterday, today, and forever."
He proves it to those who will open the door of faith. You'll not be contaminated with the locks on the door. Let Christ stand in the door. He will tell you that the Scriptures are true.


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