<TITLE>13. Par 34-36</TITLE>L-34 And they come down the hall, and this old guy grabbed this one by the underneath skirt, and tried to pull her, and almost broke one of the straps off her shoulder and she was disposed terribly. She come down, beautiful young women, both of them come down through there, staggering like that. And I just stepped back in a little room like, little hall like this, and watched. They got pretty close in front of me; they had a bottle of whiskey. And she reached around, took this bottle, and turned it up, and took another drink, that wedding band shining on her hand. My heart just went out of me. And I thought, "A beautiful little thing like that and then look what she's doing." And then the other one passed with her and she took--she tucked this little skirt, what she had on her underneath skirt, pulled it way up as far as she could and hollered, "Whoopee, this is life."
I stepped out of the hall; I said, "I beg your pardon; this is death. This is death. The Bible said, 'She that live in the pleasure is dead while she's alive.'"
They said, "Have a drink."
I said, "Just a minute. I'm an American."
"Good," they said, "an old Yankee."
I said, "Wait a minute; I'm a Gospel preacher. Aren't you ashamed of yourself," I said. One of them was a Sunday School teacher. I said, "Aren't you ashamed of yourself?" And I caught her by the hand; she was too little to run. I held her. Started screaming and pulling like that, and I thought maybe they'd come out and have me arrested and think wrong of me. So I said, "Aren't--aren't you ashamed of yourself, as women up here, both of you with wedding bands on and your husbands at home."
Said, "We're just having a little clean fun."
I said, "It's sin." Right.

L-35 God made a way of escape but they just won't take it. What makes people do that? Is because God made a man to thirst. And you... How dare any man to try to satisfy that holy thirst with the things of the devil. Don't you try to do that. You'll never be satisfied; it only brings heartaches, make you pick up pistol and blow your brains out. That don't have real life in it. Real life comes from God. You can never be satisfied and perfectly happy... And one of these halfway Christians, supposed to be, is the most miserable person in the world. "Oh, I can't do this. If my church knowed I did that..." God knows you're doing it; what difference does it make? Right there have your whole heart centered right on God and stay right with it. Then you're happy, walking peacefully with Him.

L-36 Elijah went up, stood in the road. Here come these men up, and said--come to him, he said, "Go back and tell your king, THUS SAITH THE LORD; he's not coming off of that bed. Ask him why didn't he send down here; he's a Israelite. Is it because there's no God in Israel? Is it because we don't have a prophet? Israel doesn't have a prophet nor a God? Why would you send over there to Ekron? Hasn't Israel got a prophet? Hasn't Israel got a God? Then why would you send to Beelzebub or to--or to Baalim? Why would you consult those things? Is it because we don't have any prophet or any God?"
That's what God's going to ask the United States one of these days: "Why did you do those things?" That's what God's going to ask the Pentecostal church one of these days, "Why did you go to dances? Why did you act like that? Why did the women bob off their hair? Why did the men do these things? Why did they dress like the world? Why did they act like the world? Was it because there was no Gospel, no joy, no Holy Spirit poured out upon you? Is it because they didn't have a preacher that would preach it?"


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