<TITLE>18. Par 70-73</TITLE>L-70 I don't want His justice. I don't want His law. I want His mercy. Mercy's what I plead. Oh, Lord, don't judge me by no law. I--I'll be condemned; I can't stand. Don't--don't give me justice; I--I ought to be--I ought to go to hell, because I'm a sinner. But, Lord, give me Your mercy, Your love, Your grace.
God said, "This is My beloved Son. Hear Him (not Moses, not justice, not the law). But hear Him; He's got mercy for you. He's got gifts for you."
He ascended on high and give gifts to men. And God's did just exactly what He did with His Son when He adopted Him there.

L-71 "Now, and otherwise, don't hear Me no more. I'm God, but I've adopted My Son. No man can come to the Father but by the Son. Hear ye Him." Oh, my, how God wants to take His Church today and adopt It. He's give It birth; now He wants to adopt It. But we just won't stand still. If it raises up amongst the Methodist, the Baptist will have nothing to do with it. It raises up amongst one church, the other one won't have nothing to do with it. It's a twist and a twirl. Why? It's a mixed multitude. It's still the same thing.
What we need today is a coming together, and a prayer meeting, and to stay there until God sends the adoption of the Holy Spirit, brings the Holy Ghost down and places in the Church apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists, pastors. That's what we need. That's what the Church needs. It won't compromise; it'll stay with the Word, a church that won't flirt with the world, a church that will have nothing to do with sin, that'll turn it's back on sin, that'll walk in the holiness and beauty of God, living for God. Live or die, what difference does it make, as long as I'm for God. What difference does it make?

L-72 God's trying to get that in the church. He's trying to do it. He does it now and then just to show the people that He's doing it. And why is it, when God shakes those gifts before the church, and then the church, like I said the other night, like the baby in the--with the woman in the ten-cent store seems to not even paying attention to it?
Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, five nights... This great, big area here and two hundred empty seats in a twelve hundred auditorium. Hungering and thirsting for righteousness... See what I mean? I'm not scolding you. But I'm just bringing you a truth. That's it.

L-73 You know what's the matter? It's because that people will come to church. The people today wants entertainment. They've been... American people is so entertained, that that's what they have to have. That--that--that feeds the spirit that's in them. It's an entertained spirit. You have to entertain them.
God don't entertain people. He rebukes people. Judgment begins at the house of God. And when He comes to the time that the church has to have soup suppers, and dances, and bunco games, and all kinds of nonsense of rummage sales to pay their preacher, God have mercy on that church. That's right.
We need the Holy Ghost in power and adoption, that our ministry will speak out. Amen. But the people, when they go to see something, they go to see a--a certain ministry. "Here this brother's got a certain ministry."
Well, they go over and say, "Oh, yeah, that's pretty good. Uh-huh. It's okay. Well, okay, where we going tomorrow?"
Something else. See? It don't even attract them at all. They've just seen so much of the goodness of God, until they just haphazardly walk away from it.


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