<TITLE>08. Par 32-36</TITLE>L-32 A minister friend of mine, good Christian brother, at... when the Geneva Conference... he was waiting on his radio to hear the returns of it, because our nation was at stake, and our great heritage that our forefathers fought for was at stake. And he was a righteous, good, godly man. He was setting listening.
Someone knocked on his door--a modern beatnik, with his beard, dirty. How in the world that American children could ever go for such stuff as that, and then get out there...? Knocked on the door, and he said, "Sir, I'm here to sell some of my poetry and my songs," he said, "And they won't hear me." And said, "They won't give me an audience. And they tell me you're a influenced... influential man in the city."
He said, "Good man, come in and set down just a minute. I'm listening for those returns." But, oh, he wouldn't stand still. No, sir. That was more important than the outcome of the nation.

L-33 And that's the way a lot of church members gets today, that little bitty fandango things that happen amongst people is more important than the real church of the living God. Let's forget our little things and fly away. Let's listen for the returns.

L-34 Now, here they had another conference I'd like to speak of just a moment: the last conference they had at the U.N. building, where the East and the West met together, where Khrushchev took off his shoe and beat the desk with it. Eisenhower and Khrushchev met, Eisenhower representing the five free world and Khrushchev the Eastern Communist world. And that went right over the head of many people, not praying concerning it.
But if you happened to notice that was a direct answer and a direct prophecy fulfilled at that time. It was direct prophecy. The East and the West had fulfilled exactly what Daniel said, that ten kingdoms, there would be... wouldn't mix, like iron and clay would not mix together. And the word "Khrushchev" in Russian means "clay"; the word "Eisenhower" in English means "iron"; and iron and clay could not get together.

L-35 Oh, as we see there things approaching we ought to be on our knees crying out, "O Lord Jesus, do something for us right away, that we might try to pull the last person that can be brought into the kingdom of God"; pooling ourselves together and having conferences and meetings and get together in prayer meetings all night long. The trouble with the church tonight, we just go and kneel down, and pray and yawn a few times, so sleepy and tired, and have to go home and go to bed.

L-36 It isn't like the early Pentecostal church. They prayed all day and all night. I met these old timers from forty years ago Said they'd pray all day and all night, walk on the streets. Today we become classical and want to compare with the big churches, and that's where we make our mistakes. I tell you, the church was in better order forty years ago for the coming of the Lord than it is tonight, because we are the Laodicean Church. We realize that this is the age we're living in. And that was the only church that Jesus was found outside His own church knocking on the door, trying to get back in His own church.


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