<TITLE>08. Par 33-36</TITLE>L-33 And when you say to people, "Are you a Christian?" Well, quickly they'll tell you they belong to a certain denomination or organization, See? And they're--they're satisfied with that. They seem to think that that's all that suffices, that's all that has to be... If they belong to a--a certain organization, that's all they have to do. Well, that used to be. We called them people the cold formal Baptists, and Methodists, but now it's the cold formal Pentecostals got that way too. It--it--it's in the Pentecostal church. Each one wants to say, "I belong to this or I..." And that's all right; I'm not condemning that. That's fine. But what you want to be, if you profess Pentecost, Pentecost is an experience where a man or a woman, boy or girl that's borned again with a Pentecostal experience of the Holy Ghost.
And as soon as you receive that, the whole world seems to weight you down. Oh, you've yoked yourself up with Christ. And it brought tears to His eyes and grief, even death to His body, when the world in that day was so sinful. What do you think it does today?

L-34 I was in a place, I believe it was in Athens or somewhere. I--I seen a--a picture like a plate on a wall. No, I'm--I'm sorry. I've got it on a--on a recording or a picture of the famous picture of, "Three Minutes Until Midnight," that science says that's where we're living: three minutes of midnight, and that was said about three, or four, or five years ago. I believe we're into the "seconds" now, of the ticking away of time. Now, I could be wrong, but it just seems that way to me. And they had a picture of Christ, like on a plate, and tear drops, as He looked down to the earth was dropping off of His face.
And I wonder if it just isn't about like it was in the days of Noah, when God said it even grieved Him that He made man. I wonder if it hasn't gotten to about that place again tonight, that the very man that He created and gave Hisself for, and redeemed, that--to redeem that man, and He spurns it back in His face. This horrible age that we're living in, of just joining church... That's...

L-35 If you think that you are a Christian, and something told you was a Christian because you made a confession and joined church, that's an uncertain sound. That's the reason today, people are not interested in a revival. That's the reason the world don't want it. We've got to have a certain sound to it, a certain sound.
And the reason, today, that when we have a protracted meeting or gathering together, they don't get the real certain sound. But when they had a revival on the day of Pentecost, there came a certain sound from heaven, like a rushing mighty wind that filled all the house where they were setting. That was a certain sound. It was an evidence that God was in the midst of them.

L-36 The church today, it just like it was in--in Eden, at the east of the gate. There was Cain. He made a--an altar. He built it there and erected it in memorial of Jehovah. He wasn't an infidel. He made the altar and--in commemoration of Jehovah, and put a sacrifice on it, and laid himself on the altar, and called out to God. And God refused his calling out, because it didn't have the right sound. There was nothing there to cry out, that was dying. There was nothing, no death to appease Him; that sin had to be paid for by death. "The day ye eat thereof, that day you die." And he put flowers and made it pretty, but there was nothing there to say that there was death.


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