<TITLE>23. Par 217-223</TITLE>L-217 The Bible said, "Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her." Is that right? Well, then, if the woman dresses herself sexy and puts herself before a man, who's to blame for it? The woman is; she produced it. That's exactly right.
Now, you might be as pure as a lily to your husband. You may be a young girl that's never did anything wrong in your life, be a virgin when you marry your husband. But if you dress like that and cause men to look at you like that, he's committed adultery with you already in his heart. That sinner looked at you. As a Christian you may have the best cut clothes on in the city, the best of woolens, but it ain't becoming to a saint of God to dress like that.

L-219 [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Oh, yes, don't come to a child of God...
"Oh, no," they say. Well, they say, "Our church..." You are well-dressed? They said they was. They was rich, had need of nothing. Sure. Why, they said, "Even our pastor walks out with a great big robe on. All the choir walks out with a great big robe on." And the devil rolled up under it. Uh-huh. Uh-huh, that's right. Oh. Um. Well, I better not say that one either, so...?... All right.
Oh, all these big things, robed choirs, paid choirs, have to pay them to sing. Have to give the preacher so much or he'll get another charge that pays him a little better. He'll call the trustee board together and say, "Now, brethren, I--I... You've been very kind to me here; you give me so-many hundred a week," or something another like that. "But the other Presbyterian church of Pres... (called "Pentecostal" or whatever it is) across here, they have--they've made me a promise that they'd give me so much more." Oh, my.

L-222 Then what's a poor saint got? What chance have they got? What has a poor little church filled with the Holy Ghost, what kind of a chance have they got? They couldn't afford nothing like that. So the Lord just rises you up something then (Amen.) hand-picked by Himself, fills it with the Holy Ghost, and sets him as the general overseer over it. Sends down... He said, "I counsel of thee to come and buy white raiment from him." The Bible said, "The white robes are the righteousness of the saints."

L-223 Now, I believe we... Let's get about the--about the 19th verse now. I believe it's about the 20th verse we're on, the best I can see. Yeah, yeah, and closing on this. Now, be real quiet now and listen now while we're doing this. Listen:
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in... and will sup with him, and he with me.
To him that overcometh will I grant to set with me on my throne, even as I also overcome, and am set down with My Father in his throne.
He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
This is one of the most outstanding statements that I've ever seen in the New Testament. I want you to notice, "I stand at the door and knock." This is generally used, a quotation for the appeal for sinners. Is that right? We tell sinners, "Jesus is at the door, knocking." But here He's knocking at the church door for He once walked with them, but they with their organization and worldliness and coldness had excluded Him. He's on the outside the church.


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