<TITLE>15. Par 48-49</TITLE>L-48 These wars, you take these young kids out, just the cream of the crop, 'cause they don't know no better knowing discipline, army discipline. "Stick your head up over the hill and let somebody shoot it off. Die like a hero." They gladly do it. Run up there on one and shot down another and shot down another, shot down... And nation forgets them unless they're family. Come back to this here, and whatever they come back to... You see what I mean. Many of the soldiers...
But a man, seldom will you ever find one that'll lay down his life for the cause of Christ. He won't even crawl out of his shade tree and go to church, won't even get out from behind the television long enough to attend a Wednesday night prayer meeting. That's right. Amen. It's a shame, disgrace.
That's the reason Angels don't visit the churches. That's the reason the Angels don't visit homes. We've got to get down to deep, sincerity of this thing. The Angels of God are here on earth tonight just the same as they always been.
The Holy Ghost has been here ever since the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the coming forth of Pentecost. He's appeared through ages all down, getting a remnant of people together. The rest of it is cannon fodder; I'll just tell you that now. It's a fodder that'll mix with smoke out of torment. Yes, sir. It will take a borned-again experience, washed in the Blood of the Lamb, sanctified, filled with the Holy Ghost, or they'll never make that rapture, according to this Word. Yes. That's exactly what the Scripture says.

L-49 A young lady out here in Oregon was trying to discuss with me one time. She belonged to a church that Mary was the boss over. And she said, talking about, said, "I'd hate to know that I'd..." Said, "You mean to tell me that during the--in the heaven are these bunch of idiots like was carrying on up there last night when you was preaching... if that will be the people that will be ruling in heaven?"
I said, "That's what the Bible says."
She said...
I said, "Your blessed virgin, Mary, had to go up to Pentecost and receive the Holy Ghost and act like them people did last night or she'd have never went to heaven."
She said, "That's not so."
I said, "Let me show you right here in Acts 2 whether it's so or not. Mary got so drunk; she staggered like she was drunk on the Spirit, and acted like a drunk person on the day of Pentecost. And if God didn't let Mary go home to heaven, anything less than that, how in the world are you going to make it without that?" That's right. "Let you belong to any church you want to; you'll have to have the same experience, the same thing, exactly."
She said, "Well, I--I--I--I wouldn't want to be there."
I said, "I don't think you have to worry very much about that." That's right. "I don't think you have very much to worry about." I said, "Now, go on and write up a real dirty article of it in the paper, and I'll tell you this, THUS SAITH THE LORD, you mark my words down. Between this and two months from now, dying on the side of the road in an accident, you will remember the words I told you."
And she never wrote nothing. That's right. She played a wise trick there. I seen her dying, laying in a car accident. God was giving her a chance then. But she's smart enough not to write nothing. There wasn't nothing in the paper; they just let it go. So, that's the smart idea. She only saved her own life by it. See, God's still God.


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