<TITLE>07. Par 22-24</TITLE>L-22 Now, we notice what taken place, Samuel said to--to Israel; he said, "God sent me to be your prophet. Have I ever told you anything in the Name of the Lord that didn't come to pass?" Think of that. And he said, "Have I ever begged you for your money? Have I ever took money from you?"
I just got a letter from a brother out in Arizona, where a certain great leader had a meeting. And in this meeting, out of a little church, no more people then setting right here, it cost that church six thousand dollars, this man's one that's on the board, to have the man. It cost ten thousand for the broadcast. And to think of it, brother, what six thousand dollars would do in a mission field, where I know where brethren that are preaching the Gospel with no shoes on their feet. And we put millions of dollars in great big buildings.
I'm not speaking of any certain person; I'm talking of the whole thing over. Great buildings... I seen just recently where a great organization is putting six million, I believe, three to six million dollars in an office building, and missionaries hungry on the field. And we preach Jesus is coming soon. Where can you make sense out of that, people? I'm just--I'm at my wit's ends, I don't get it. Your life, what you live tells really what you think in your heart. Jesus said, "If you speak one thing and do another..." Said, "You hypocrites, how can you speak good things with your mouth, and your heart thinking something else." Your actions speaks louder than your words. Why are we believing Jesus is coming and doing these things? We ain't got no time for those things.

L-23 Samuel said, "Now, you tell me if I ever said anything to you in the Name of the Lord that didn't come to pass."
"No," they said, "everything you told us come to pass."
"Tell me when I ever took your money. Tell me..." And said, "Now, if you go to acting like the rest of them, when you bring a king in here, and substitute something under Jehovah..."
"Well," they said, "you see, this will be a king, and we'll be like the rest of them. Why, it'll--it'll just work better. We'll have some man that we can talk to, some man that can console us, some man to be these different things for us, talk back to us." Oh, brother, if you're just spiritual enough, God will talk back to you.

L-24 They try to bypass the very issue of the new birth. That's what takes place. Now, people can't think of this new birth, the baptism of the Holy Ghost and so forth. How did you ever get here to come into existence without the natural birth? You couldn't do it. There's no way at all for you to do it, for you to come into existence and--and be able to walk around and to know without having the natural birth. Is that right? Well, the same thing it is in spiritual. If you're not borned again, you just don't know nothing about it. How could you take a man that was going to hire a big bunch of people, saying, "I've got a business out here." A man going over to the cemetery just as hard as he could run, running to the cemetery. "Where you going, sir?"
"Oh, I just got a great big project out here; I'm going over to get some people to help me."
"Some people to what?"
"Help me."
"Where you going?"
"To cemetery. Oh, I seen names all over the place." That's what it is; just names. That's what we become, a bunch of Pentecostal names. That's right. We need something with life in it. You don't get life in a graveyard...?... You could preach to them all night and all day; there's nothing there to move.


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