<TITLE>18. Par 161-170</TITLE>L-161 But people tie themselves up with broadcasts, and radio, and television, and all kinds of things of the world, till they got to have that kind of money. That's exactly right. See? That ain't God. He said, "Oh, you're rich, have need of nothing." Sure, but the very thing you had need of, you didn't have. That's right. But you didn't know it. See, "Rich, have need of nothing." Paid to do the things that they're doing, card-playing. "Oh," you say, "we got big congregations." Oh, sure. Yes, sir. "Biggest congregation... Why--why, you know, the mayor of the city comes to our church." Uh-huh. That's right. "Why, you know, So-and-so, when they come to town, they come to our church." Uh-huh. "We have all the celebrity in our church."
Yes, and let the poor, sainted needy come into the church, and they're a rebuke to you. You don't even want them there. You're afraid somebody will say "Amen," while you're preaching.

L-164 Like the little lady I read one time in a little book up here; she come into a church. Her children, she'd raised them in an old fashion church back in the woods somewhere where they was really godly. So the... A young fellow come in one day and married the girl, said he belonged to the outside church, you know, one of the big churches in the same denomination out in the city. So he told the mother he was a Christian. So he married the daughter and taken her out.
Well, finally he got her weaned off from the little old country church back in the mountains to out here, this great big fine church, same name; but back there they had the Holy Ghost; out here they had nothing. So then when they come in, this great big fine church...

L-166 So mother said, one day, she was coming down to--to see her daughter. Well, they wondered what in the world they'd do with her. So when she come down she looked like something out of a relic book, one of them little, high-necked dresses, you know, and long sleeves, and her hair was peeled back there, onion-face slicked down like that (peeled back, you know). And she come down, and she said, "Well, hallelujah, honey. How you all getting along?" Well, she said, "Now, in the morning is Sunday." Said, "You all going to meeting, ain't you?"
The husband said, "What will we do with her?" See? Said, "We can't take her over there like that." And said, "Well, I don't know what to do." Well, he said, "Mother, I tell you, we..."
"Oh," she said, "but, honey, I couldn't stay out of church. Surely there's a certain-certain church around here."
"Oh," she... He said... Said, "I seen one over on the corner there, I'll just go over."
And he said, "Oh, well, we'll just have to do it."

L-170 So when they went in; they let her go in first, ashamed of her. Here she come across the street with that little skirt, you know, and her Bible under her arm. But, brother, she might not have had her name in "Who's Who," but I imagine she had her name on the Lamb's Book of Life. That was the main thing.
When she walked in the church, she set down back there took her a seat, you know, and opened up the Bible, and she begin to read. And everybody begin to look around, thought some kind of an antique had dropped out somewhere. Looking around like that, and "Oh, my." With all their fine clothes on, you know, the typical Laodicean, and their fine dresses and so forth. Looked back and seen this little mother setting there, big smile on her face, you know, reading the Bible. Yes.


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