<TITLE>06. Par 16-19</TITLE>L-16 As the old darkie said, one time, "I told the Lord I want to talk it over with Him now, 'cause I didn't want any trouble at the river." And that's right, friends. I don't want any trouble at the river. You don't know what hour you're coming down to that river. You may be down there in another fifteen minutes. You may be there before daylight, but there's one thing sure: You're coming to it. So you better be sure now. God doesn't do these things just for play, for stage shows. He does this for His glory, His honor, because He promised He'd do it. Let's not look at it lightly, but reverently, discreetfully, and soberly. Come to the fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins. Confess your sins and your unbelief. Ask God to be merciful to you, as a sinner, and save you for Christs' sake.

L-17 Sometimes people get in church, they say, "I don't have ask that. I've already..." Oh, search your life out, friend! See how your faith is recorded with the Word. Remember, those Pharisees didn't think they need saving. They were holy, consecrated men. They were ministers: their fathers was ministers, their grandfathers, their great-grandfathers, their great-great grandfathers; all of them was ministers. Lived such a life till one mark against them, they could be stoned for it. Know the Scriptures? Perfectly knowing them. Jesus said, "You are of your father, the devil."

L-18 Watch God! He was showing them the sign of the Messiah and they didn't believe it. They said, "He's Beelzebub, a fortune-teller." As smart, and as educated, and as consecrated lives that they were living, and yet they were sinners. Why? They didn't commit adultery. They didn't smoke cigarettes. They didn't get drunk. They didn't go to dances. They didn't play cards. But they disbelieved. That's the reason they were sinners.
That's the reason I sling it at Pentecost today. No matter how much you dance in the Spirit and speak in tongues... I believe in that, but you could speak in tongues like pouring peas on a dry cowhide, and still lost! Right. You never even got the... I've seen witch doctors that speak in tongues and dance in the spirit, drink blood out of a human skull, and call on the devil, dancing in the spirit and speaking in tongues and shouting as hard as they could shout. Certainly. Can't go for that.

L-19 If you still disbelieve God's Word, just the way it's written, you're an unbeliever, a sinner. God comes down and performs His Word, and makes It manifest, and shows It letter by letter, where nobody can rise against It--God sent for It, Himself--then they walk away because of some creed, no wonder we're doomed. But... Can you stop it? Somebody said to me the other day, "Can you stop it?"
I said, "No, sir."
He said, "Well what do you... Why don't you keep still?"
I said, "How can I keep still? I'm coming to a judgment. And my voice will be on the recording there that'll scrape the whole generation." I can't keep still. Woe unto me if I do keep still. Not...
I said, "You don't believe in sinning, do you?"
He said, "No."
I said, "Well, what are you preaching against it for?" Why do you... If you know the world is going to go on in that chaos, why do you keep on preaching? We've got to give a voice against it. Got to."
Truth is got to be known. God's just. He gives His warning. Why'd Noah stand in the door preaching when He knowed they wasn't coming in? He prepared the ark for the saving of his household. What it was. But he had to give the message just the same. God is just. God knew they wasn't coming. He knowed just exactly eight souls would be saved in the days of Noah, just as in the last days He knows this generation. He knows will and who won't. But He knows it, well that's the reason He said, "As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man." See?
And we know we're living in a tremendous time, but we... you're duty... Your--your heart cries out; you can't hold your peace. You got to say it.


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