<TITLE>17. Par 65-68</TITLE>L-65 And when he begin to blow his poison breath, the ship begin to toss from side to side. The oars broke, the sails fell, and the little ship was getting water-logged. All hopes that ever could be saved was gone.
And it's almost that way now, friends. Looky here; look in the city today; look at the revivals; look at the places. Every thing we got so much money, we have to take up millions of dollars and thousands of dollars a week till we got to do all this, that, and the other, and this kind of program and that. We've programmed it so much, until there's no time for prayer meeting, twenty minute sermon, or something another, until it's got to a place, till so many educated scholar boys come in.
Till here not long ago, I went into a--a great Pentecostal church to ask them if I could borrow some seats to got into my auditorium where I was at. And the pastor said, "I would not let anybody set on my seats that even believed in Divine healing." That's true: Hot Springs, Arkansas.

L-66 Now... And then, like that it's got to a place, in many of the great churches that are trying to smother the thing out, saying we're putting too much emphasis on Divine healing, on these other things and just getting it to a ritual. What is it? Your getting grandchildren in it; you're getting scholars in it in the stead of God-saved men.
Every man that comes to the platform's got to be a pretty, little, curly-haired Hollywood. We've got too much Hollywood evangelism today: preachers out on the platform, and their wives walking up-and-down there like poured into a skirt, with jewels all over their hands, and lipstick, and short hair. Why, it's a disgrace to the world and call it Pentecost. It might be Pentecost by denomination; it isn't Pentecost by experience. That's right.

L-67 We need the old fashion, Holy Ghost, Pentecost again. The devil seen us going off on great buildings, and great organizations, and great this, and great that, and leaving Jesus out of it. And the devil's begin to blow his poison breath saying, "Well, we're climbing up now. We're doing better now, and we got a better bunch of preachers, intellectual, fine-dressed men, all these different things." I love and singing...
I went to a place here recently where they had a choir was going to sing just before I prayed for the sick and preached. And this great Pentecostal choir, standing back there, and the man was going to take up an offering, and if they didn't blaspheme it, make fun of it, telling jokes, dirty up-and-down one with another... A bunch of women wearing lipstick and rouge, and them eyebrows all look something like a devil, all of them plucked out but one little match stem streak across their face and things like that standing there...
Oh, if they wouldn't have throwed me out. I walked up-and-down the floor saying, "God hold me to keep my mouth shut, please till I get over this meeting." I thought I'd walk out there and say, "You're not fit to sing in a choir for the Kingdom of God." With robes on...

L-68 That's all right. Robes is fine. That's all right. But it wasn't that, but it's that spirit under there. Stood out there and tried to sing some kind of... I...
If anything, I love is good, old fashion Pentecostal singing, where if a man hasn't got voice even to call hogs, he will use it for the glory of God and sing in the Spirit. I do hate an over-trained voice that holds up there some kind of a note till they turn blue in the face, "Ahhh..." They don't even know what they're saying themselves. How in the world can the Holy Spirit get into anything like that. I don't like that. I like genuine, Holy Ghost singing, where they sing and clap their hands and praise God.
What's the matter? The devil's blowing his poison breath, said, "You want to act like the others?" [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]


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