<TITLE>03. Par 17-29</TITLE>L-17 This would stand quoting. A few months ago, wife and I were going to the shopping center. And we found a strange thing; there was a woman on the street that had a skirt on. All right, you wouldn't believe it, but we actually found one. And the wife said to me, "Well, look at that."
I said, "She must be a Christian; she's so much different." It's a shame.
Then the question arose, "Why is it, Bill, that we, as Christians, and this faith that we believe in, why is it that we constrain our women to wear dresses to act that way? Does not people of other churches? They wear those clothes like that, the immoral clothes, and why is it? You couldn't say they were immoral."
I said, "That is true. I can judge no one. But to see them, by their fruits they are known. They may not actually commit the crime, but on them is a spirit that's driving them to immorality."

L-21 Now, Jesus said, "Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her, has committed adultery with her already in his heart." Now, when that sinner has to answer for committing adultery, who will be the guilty one? The woman that presented herself. You may be as pure as a lily, as far as virtue is concerned, but if you have presented yourself before the people in a immoral way, though you're innocent of the act, you caused a man to think evil of you, when it's your fault. Jesus said you'll be guilty of committing adultery, and an adulterous will never enter heaven.

L-22 But as I travel around the world, I find every nation has its own spirit. And all nations are controlled by the devil. All governments are ruled by the devil. The Bible said so. They fight, they war, and they will till Jesus comes, and then He'll set up a Kingdom that there'll be no war. But Satan said that all the kingdoms of the world was his, and he'd do with them whatever he wanted to, right in the face of Jesus Christ. And they're all Satan's instruments, Satan's kingdoms. Satan told Jesus, "I'll give them to you if you'll fall down and worship me."
Jesus knowed He'd fall Heir to them in the millennium, so He said, "Get thee hence, Satan." He knew that God would give Him all of the kingdoms, and they would be His, and they'll all be one Kingdom.

L-24 When you go into Germany, you find a German spirit. You go into England, you find a English spirit. You go into Sweden, you find a Swedish spirit. And you go into France, you find a French spirit. You come into America, you find American spirit.
I stopped at San Angelo, at Rome, sometime ago and wanted to see the catacomb. And to my surprise, and to a rebuke, as an American, standing before the catacomb gate where you entered in, said, "To the American women: please put on clothes and honor the dead before entering here." When a nation sinks that low, it's terrible, when we get to that place. So you see, because...

L-26 I asked a woman one time, "Are you a Christian?"
She said, "I'm an American; of course I am." That has nothing to do with it.
Brother Bosworth asked one, one night, said, "Are you a Christian, sister?"
Said, "I'll give you to understand; I burn a candle every night." Like that had anything to do with Christianity, burning a candle. Christianity doesn't consist of such things as that. And the church of God doesn't consist of such makeup as that.

L-29 Now, what makes the women... We never compel them women to do that. We never compel our men not to drink, not to swear. We just preach the Gospel, and lay down the pattern of the Bible. Many men that comes to the Pentecostal faith and the holiness faith, come in and profess to be, when they're not in their heart; many women does the same thing. We don't tell them they have to do it; we just give them the pattern, tell them what the Bible says, and if they are borned of a heavenly Spirit, then their spirit is no more Americanized, it's no more Germanized, it's heavenlyized for the Kingdom of God. Because we are in another Kingdom, a Kingdom of God, where decency, holiness, and power exist.


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