<TITLE>09. Par 34-37</TITLE>L-34 So we find out that all of our--try to--big buildings and big building programs and so forth. I imagine as--as these fellows climbed up over this mountain, these kings and so forth. Going up, they noticed in their big high mounting up building programs, they begin to see the fruit begin to grow smaller and smaller. And after while, there wasn't any fruit at all.
And I know we've did that. And we've seen that in our time, as we have moved along through this Pentecostal age. When we were back down around the corner, or about forty years ago, no place to go and had a little hole in the wall somewhere, and a bunch of people laughing and calling them holy-roller. Why, they were more spiritual then they are now. That's right.
The church was in better shape, every one of the organizations then, than it is now, spiritually speaking, "Oh, sure. We own millions of dollars worth of property." Well, that don't mean nothing to God. I'd rather not have one bit of clothes, like John, have a sheepskin wrapped around me and know Jesus Christ. And know that my heart is pure and clean before Him. Why, certainly. Than have all the riches of the world.

L-35 But the thing is, the Church has went off without God. They've went off without ha--and they found out the fruit of the Spirit has left the church. Long-suffering, some of them with enough temper, why, it would fight a buzz saw. And then--and talk about the Holy Ghost. See?
Why the fruit of the Spirit is love, and joy, long-suffering. Suffered? Yes, about--about two minutes. That's all. And away they gone. You see. So long-suffering, fruit's all dried up.
Our big building programs has mounted up. That's right. Our great high educational programs has mounted up. Our pastors are better educated. Oh, my, my. We just got all kinds of degrees, and--and it goes a whole lot of degrees in freezing too, when we get up there. About that time, about forty below zero, it seems to get. Oh, sir.

L-36 But we--we got all of that. That's right. As we see, we're mounting up higher, but all the fruit and things is leaving. All the waters of life seems to be drying up, no more Eternal Life. It's almost like, as I said the other night, pastors are so busy and people are so busy swapping members.
Just liking take a corpse from one morgue to another, just one place to another. That--that's right. Some of them is frying and the other is freezing. So that's just about the way it did. And I said getting little "isms," which after while becomes "wasms" and there we go. You see?
And that's where the church has got, till the fruits of the Spirit is all drying up everywhere. We see it everywhere. You know that's the truth. We just might as well come out and say it's the truth. Because it is.

L-37 And we find out that they were dying out there in the desert. What a horrible condition, where that led them to, going off without God. Oh, they fetched a seven day compass. Oh, sure. They got through all right. They can point back and say, "We--we're the so-and-so and the so-and-so." That's true enough. But where's God? That's it. Where's God in the thing?
We got bigger churches and big spires up on top of them, big crosses and plush pews. And we can compare with any of them, we Pentecostal people can. Money flowing to who--and the best dressed crowds, and brother, Cadillacs setting around everywhere. But where's God? Where is God?
Then when He comes into the midst of it, many of them say, "Aw, don't listen to that now. That--that's nonsense. Don't--don't pay no attention to that." See? Just dead stumps. That's all there is to it. Now, that's right. Fruit's dried up and gone a long time ago. Oh, what a terrible hour we're living in.


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