<TITLE>05. Par 18-21</TITLE>L-18 And of course, they were changing. And they had to have a new fountain opened up. And so, you can't put new wine in old bottles. It'd burst them, you know. And I think today is a day also, when we--we need a change of water. We need a cruse of salt, a new cruse of salt in which there has never been anything in before.
And God usually does that. Rise up some little person out of somewhere that knows nothing and throws a cruse of salt into some old ecclesiastical water. And the first thing you know, it's all become sweet again, another revival, the Holy Ghost a falling on everybody and going everywhere.
That's what we--we need tonight. That's what we need again, is another dash of salt, don't you think so to sweeten up the water? Remember, he took a brand new cruse. Wherein there had been nothing and put salt in it. Now, salt is a savour if it contacts. But it's got to contact first. It's got to make its contact.

L-19 Now--now, in the--the--back in the political world, there had been a great change also. There had been a--a man by the name of Ahab had died. And his son, Jehoram, reigned in his place. And he was just about like, oh, I guess his father Ahab, he'd straightened up a few things, but got bad in some more.
And so, that's about the way it is too. When we make up a new system, why, we take out a few things the old system didn't have and put in something maybe worse. And we just keep moving on like that. But that's the way it had happened during this time.
So a few nights ago, I spoke on Jehoshaphat coming down to meet Ahab, and made an alliance with him. And he got in wrong company.

L-20 Now, it's strange that Jehoshaphat, still king in the eighteenth year of his reign. When Jehoram taken over Ahab's place, Jehoshaphat came down--or Jehoram sent up to him, because he got in trouble.
And Jehoshaphat come right back again into the wrong company. Isn't it strange that we do those things? They jump right out of the frying pan into the fire. You find that people will, if... They'll come right out and start to serve God, and then the first thing you know, they'll go right back into the world again.
The Bible says, "As a dog goes to its vomit and a sow to the wallow..." And the dog ought to know if the vomit made him sick enough to--to get it out the first time, it'll do the same thing the second time. And if sin of the world will make a man realize that he's wrong once, to make him repent, it'll do it the second time. So why not keep away from the thing anyhow. If it made you sick and you got rid of it, stay away from it. Keep out of the very appearance of evil.

L-21 And we find out that that's the way that it goes, though, and we just have it. And so we always had it, so I guess we'll just continue to have it.
But I'd imagine that--that Jehoshaphat thought, "Well, I'll go down and see maybe this new pastor, Jehoram, will be different. He will be just a little different than what the old pastor was." But we find out he was a new pastor all right, but he had the same old system. He'd just added some new things to it, and had added in some new programs that maybe the old system didn't have.
And that's what I think we have--did a lot of it today, friends. We have... And we Pentecostal people, that's a great deal of what we have did. We have taken the old system and we try to start a new revival, but the first thing you know, we turn around and do with the new revival, just take the old system into it again. And that's what tears the thing up.


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