<TITLE>15. Par 130-140</TITLE>L-130 All right, He wants you red hot or--or freezing: one or the other. Don't be lukewarm. Just don't pretend something that you haven't got; either be on fire for God or go on back into the--in the--in the organization. Don't--don't be lukewarm.
It's the same thing now. That's the same thing taken place in this churches here. He wants you either hot or cold. He don't want no lukewarm. That's what Pentecost has got to, a lukewarm condition. They get on a piano once in a while, and a few drums, and bang around a little bit; and get enough music, somebody get up and kind of, you know, kind of saying, "Praise the Lord. Hallelujah." Uh-huh. And the music goes down, "Uh, uh, uh," that's it. Oh, my, just makes God sick at His stomach. All right.

L-132 There's not much going on then, as a--as a red hot revival going on in them, but they had plenty of mechanical machinery in this church (You see?), 'cause they was rich and, oh, my, they was getting together and making big meetings and everything. They was having a good time in this church; that's all true; but it's all mechanical machinery. But that's no warmth of the Holy Ghost. See?
Look here what He said in here, see:
I know Thy works,... thou are neither cold nor hot: I would that you were cold or hot.
And because you're lukewarm,... neither cold nor hot, I'll spue thee out of my mouth. (See?)
Now, He said, "I wish you were cold or hot. And because you're not, I--I just have to get rid of you, that's all, just sweep you out of My mouth."

L-135 Now, they had plenty of money; they had great buildings; they had great things going on; but they didn't have no warmth of the Holy Spirit. Oh, they had a machine, a--a regime. Oh, my. They got a united church together. Boy, they got the biggest buildings they ever had, and the things going on, but no Holy Spirit. See? That's what God sent for the church, the Holy Spirit,
Now, as we continue on in this 16th verse...
They have all kinds of committees. "Oh, we got a great regime of that. The old ladies' aid society, and a--the young men's pinochle game, and--and the bunco game on Friday night, and the--the basketball game on Sunday afternoon, and, oh, the baseball game on so-and-so. And, oh, we just got the--the men's chattering society. And, oh, we got all kinds of things."

L-137 I tell you; she's loaded down, societies, and clubs, and "beetings," and whatevermore, but no warmth of the Holy Spirit. See, you got a big regime, but you haven't got nothing there to warm up. You're warming up to the world but not to God; that's the reason they're lukewarm.
Oh, you got more members than you ever had. "Sure, boy. Why, we get a million more in '44," said the Baptists. But--but what have you got? A big machine.
Right in the same church where I heard that remark made, they had to dismiss fifteen minutes to give the pastor a chance to go outside, and all the deacons and all of them, to smoke, and come back in again. See? There you are. The Bible plainly condemns that stuff. "If you defile this body..."

L-140 The doctors condemn it and says it's full of cancer. Then they get on the radio and say, "A thinking man's filter."
As Billy Graham said, "He's a fool to think that way in the beginning." So...
"Thinking man's filter," a thinking man wouldn't smoke it at all. That's right. It take the second thought. But he tells the women it makes them real skinny, you know, so that you can wear some of these new kind of dresses they got. Boy, that sells it. More women smoke cigarettes than there is men now, and a woman will smoke three to one cigarettes to a man. That's exactly right, 'cause she wants to get thin. She don't realize that's TB and cancer and stuff making her that way, just in a baby form, coming into her, eating her up like that, killing her. Not a thing can come out of it but evil. That's right. See? But that--it--it's a thinking man's filter." Oh, my.


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