<TITLE>11. Par 43-47</TITLE>L-43 Now, up here he was placing a son. If this son didn't act right, there was something wrong. Then he had to go to the father, and imagine the embarrassment of the tutor going to the father and say, "Sir, I..."
"Oh, how is my son doing?
Oh, how he must feel ashamed. "Uh, he--he's not doing very well. He--he--he just won't listen."
Wonder what the Holy Spirit says when He comes before the Father with the character of some of His people here on earth? When He goes up there and He says, has to say, "Father, Your daughters are wearing men's clothes. They're bobbing off their hair."
"Well, have I got any doctors?"
"Sure."
"Anybody tell them about it?"
"Yes. They're staying home on Wednesday night to watch, "We love Susie," or ever what that thing is. They won't go to church; they go fishing on Sunday morning, instead of going to Sunday school." Oh, my, how... Well, how can He do anything with that son, he's a renegade. There's nothing to him.

L-44 "Yes, they absolutely, the church is practicing rock-and-roll, that new hellish dance they got down there. Some of them guys with this here, ducktail haircut, setting up there, and carrying on the way they do it. And, oh, a lot of Your people's going right on to it, and--and many of those so-called doctors are permitting it."
"What are they doing with My prescription?"
"Oh, they ignored it, said it was for another day." What do you think He must think? What He must think that many of the pastors smoke cigarettes, drink liquor, play cards. Think of that. They're doing it. I traveled across the nation and around the world; I know it's the truth. Certainly. Oh, it's a terrible thing, how the Holy Spirit must blush in the Presence of God, to say how the church is doing. Oh, it must be a terrible thing.

L-45 Now, that child in the Old Testament, he never had any inheritance. Why, the father couldn't trust him with anything. What kind of a fellow would he be? But he couldn't trust him; he's always a son, but he never had any inheritance. And if you don't watch, Pentecostal church, that's going to be our lot--no inheritance.
But notice, the Bible said that the world, today, is groaning, waiting for the manifestations of the sons of God, God's sons to be manifested. The world is a waiting for that, for the time to come, that when God's sons, who is the ruler of the earth.

L-46 God put people on the earth, man to control the earth. The Bible said that a man is a god. Did you know that? He sure is. Jesus said, "Is it not written in your laws, that you are gods?" And if they're gods, the prophets, who in the Word God came to, how can you condemn Me when I say, 'I'm the Son of God?'" See? They're--they're--they're gods, fallen gods. They get a domain, the world. They're supposed to take care of it. The trees and the animal life, everything's waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God, when they'll be manifested on the earth. Oh come, Lord Jesus, is my prayer. Oh, for the great millennium when they'll be manifested. We're getting ready now for this time to come. The church has got to get ready.

L-47 Notice, as we go a little farther. Now, if this son was kind of a renegade boy, and he did not obey the father, why, the--the--the tutor blushed, and why, the father never could give him anything.
But what if he was a good boy? And when, the father said, "How is my son progressing?"
"Oh," the tutor says, "Father, you know what? Your boy is just exactly like you. He's about your business. He does it just the way you would do it. Why, the whole kingdom here, can see your reflection right in that boy." Oh, my. That's what we want. That's it, reflections of Jesus Christ.


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