<TITLE>17. Par 40-42</TITLE>L-40 Jairus couldn't wait till tomorrow. His child was dying. Brethren, we can't wait for a new organization. We can't wait for something to get stirred up. It's already here. We've got to bring Christ on the scene. The Pentecostal church is dying. Amen. The Assemblies, the Oneness, the Twoness, the Threeness, the--the Foursquare, all of them, they are dying. Let's leave these things. They're all right. But don't... Just quit fussing about that; let's bring Christ on the scene.
That's the way Jairus, had to get Christ on the scene or his child would die. He must hurry real quick. He's got to spring into action. Oh, I love that. Get into action.
Oh, if this group right here tonight, you Methodists, you Baptists, you Presbyterian, you Pentecostals, Oneness, Twoness, Threeness, and all of you, if you'd spring into action, laying aside your traditions and malices, bring Christ on the scene. Open up your heart. He's here. Amen. His boat just landed. (Hallelujah.) He's on the scene.
Somebody said, "Yes, faith cometh by hearing."
Say, "Yes, He's coming in for the dock down there now. Just down below the hill from the parish. He's coming in down there now."
Well, here he goes. He grabs his little hat, and... "I don't care what they say."

L-41 Say, "All right, Jairus, you're going to be sorry one of these days. You know you're springing off on the deep end." He didn't care deep end or what he ended. He knowed what his heart told him. And there isn't a person in here tonight, but if you'd do what your heart told you to do, you'd probably be at this altar. Right. There isn't a preacher present, if you'd do what your heart told you to do, but what we would confess our wrong. That's right. When you confess, mine... "I'm ready to join arms and hearts with men to get Christ on the scene." That's the main thing. The children's dying. This little book here holds that vision in it. When I looked over there, they didn't... I did it. When I walked up to the gate, didn't ask me if I was a Pentecostal Oneness, or a Threeness, or a Fiveness. The only thing it was, He just let me come in, because I'd loved Christ, and had love in my heart. That's the thing now, brethren.

L-42 Jairus had to hurry. His child was dying. God's child's a dying; the church is dying. We've got to do something. You might've called it telepathy. You might've called it the devil. You might... I don't know what you did call it. But way down deep in your heart, if you believed it was the truth, brother, you'd better put your ecclesiastical hat in the corner, and say something, and get moving. That's right. The church is dying. We need Christ on the scene: time for action.
Not when I feel like it, not when I take the next notion. But he had to get people on the scene, because the--or get Jesus on the scene. Everything else had failed.
I want to ask you something. Is the Pentecostal church better off tonight because it's broke itself up in about thirty different organizations, or when it started in the beginning? See? Just ask that. We're constantly getting worse and worse. Is the women and men in our Pentecostal churches looking more like saints, praying? Tell me somewhere in the city where they're having prayer meeting all night long, day in and out, for the sins that's done in the city like they used to do it. Are we any better? We're getting worse.
Oh, our buildings are getting more pretty. Oh, we're becoming more up in the ranks with the other churches. But who wants to be like them? I want to be like Jesus. And that's the way every man ought to want to be like: Christ. Let's get Him on the scene. See? And we're... The--the--the churches are dying. So we've got to do something. We got to hurry. We ain't got no all... We ain't got to wait till--till the millennium to do it. If we're going to do it, we got to do it now, or it's going to die. Something's going to happen.


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