<TITLE>04. Par 23-29</TITLE>L-23 It's so sinful, this nation, no wonder. It's honeycombed, and rotten to the core. Right up here in another place, in your state... Not only this state, everywhere... Right up here, a few years ago, I was in a--in a religious meeting up here in the state, a big city. And that night a religious group, a orthodox church with teen-agers, had a convention. I--I never... I've been in Africa under voodoo and everything; I never heard anything like that. And the next morning (I can't tell you exactly, we're a mixed audience)... laying on the floor, immoral things that had been done, whiskey bottles all over. And them young kids, boys and girls in the same room all night together. And the next morning, the "holy father" setting out there, and them come up bowing to him like that, under the Name of Jesus Christ...

L-24 Have I gone crazy? What--what's the matter with me? I just can't stand those things. It... Something just shakes me to pieces when I see that. Is that to represent my Lord Jesus? A drunken, immoral party with immoral things that used on them young men and women, laying on the floors, and in the waste baskets, and bottles, and... Oh, my, goodness. Could you call that Christianity? No wonder the world's in a sinful condition. Well, what does the sinner say when he looks at that (thousands of them)?

L-25 Them young girls so drunk they couldn't hardly stand up, and in the room all night with them boys, and awfullest dirty talk you ever heard in your life. I put pillows over my head like this to try to go to sleep. Out in the floors, drunk, and running up and down the floors like that, religious...
Now, I can expect these sinful people like now, that call themselves sports, out here in the bowling game. One of my kids would start towards a bowling alley, I'd run him out of the country (uh-huh). Call that sport; that's not sports. What's this... If you want to be right, get right with God. True.

L-27 I want to read for you just a word out of the Bible. You find it, a few words I want to read here for a text found in the 17th chapter of I Kings 1st verse:
As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain in these years,... according to my word. (I Kings, 1st chap--17th chapter, 1st verse)

L-28 If I can send you a prayer cloth any time, just write to me; my secretary here, that's present now, Brother Maguire... How many's ever got a prayer cloth from us? Let's see your hand. Stand up Brother Jim. I want to see you, you and your wife too. Here's my secretary and his wife, the ones that works to send. That's the boy and girl that sends you your prayer cloth from the meeting, both consecrated Christians. And the voice, that sweet little voice you hear on the phone when you call me, that's the little lady setting there, his wife. Her father and mother and them, are here with us today; and--and the loved ones, all around. So... And then you know my field secretary, Mr. Mercier, Brother Leo Mercier, he's here somewhere, and Brother Gene Goad. And so if we can send you a prayer cloth, any time, or anything we can do, pray for you on the phone; anything we can do, we'll do it.

L-29 This strange looking man with a staff in his hand, his steps steady, his eyes gleaming with the glory of God, his beard blowing on the side of him, an old hairy piece of sheepskin wrapped around him, he was making his step just as sturdy as he walked down the road to Samaria. He wasn't very much to look at, but he had THUS SAITH THE LORD for that great nation of Israel. Yeah, Elijah the Tishbite, a prophet of the Lord, he wasn't much to look at, but he had the Word of the Lord.


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