<TITLE>10. Par 29-32</TITLE>L-29 Now, before judgment can strike, mercy comes first. Then after mercy, then there's not... If you spurn mercy there's only one thing left; that's judgment. Judgment follows mercy after it's been spurned. They spurned Christ; judgment followed. They spurned the prophets; judgment followed. And as much as it hurts me, as an American citizen, I must say that this nation has spurned mercy. So it's ready for God's Divine judgment. Look what's gone through this nation, all kinds of things, great man like I just spoke of a few minutes ago, Charles Fuller, Billy Graham, Jack Shuler, Oral Roberts, Tommy Hicks, T. L. Osborn; great men has crossed this nation shaking it; and it continually wades in sin, blindly moving right on. Some of them will be influenced by the--the ministry of these great men and will come in and join church and go right out and live the same way they always lived. When you profess the Name of Jesus Christ, abstain from all sin. "Let every man that names the Name of Jesus Christ," the Scripture says, "depart from sin." But what do we do?

L-30 What is sin? Unbelief. There's only one sin, unbelief. You commit adultery, you smoke cigarettes, you curse, you drink, because you're an unbeliever. If you was a believer you wouldn't do that. Them things are attributes of unbelief. A true believer is soundly, solid based on Christ, and there's nothing will shake him. But because that you're waving, pulling off to one side, that's the reason you have these things happen in your life. True unadulterated faith will hold you safely against the cross. It will.

L-31 Now, He upbraided them and told them, because that they did this, He begin to say (And I'm coming down to my text now.), that the queen of the south should rise and condemn the generation. They had told Him that He was Beelzebub just a few verses behind this. And He'd rebuked them for their unbelief. He had told them that they'd had a day that they'd spurned. He said once, "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how oft would I have hovered you as a hen does her brood, but you would not." Now, you're left.
And I believe that the great Holy Spirit in the hearts of men and women in America who are Christians, can feel It crying, "Great America, America, how oft would I have given you a revival. How oft I would've gathered you together, but you would not. You love the things of the world more than you love the things of God, so there you are." Then there's nothing left but Divine judgment will have to fall, separation from God.

L-32 Now, we find out that through all generations God has had gifts. Every generation, through the Bible, as I've got many Scriptures here that I could refer to here that--that through the different ages that God has had Divine gifts. And now, I want to say this to the clergymen. I want you to tell me, or mention to me in history, one time of any historian, or any time that God ever poured out His blessings and had a revival but what supernatural signs followed that revival: every revival. They've had healings and speaking with tongues and demonstrations of the Spirit in every revival. It's the signs of God. God, where God is there's signs because God is a sign working God. Jesus never did say, "Did you believe Me because I had My Father's teaching?"; He said, "If I do not the teaching of My Father, don't believe Me"? He said, "If I do not the works of My Father. Don't believe Me if I do not do the works."


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