<TITLE>22. Par 208-214</TITLE>L-208 The Holy Ghost is not an empty shell, a place where people go and--and... The church is not an empty shell, rather, a place where people go, and a big old hall, building, or something another, worth a hundred million dollars, or something another. And we're spending all of our money upon such as that, putting millions and millions and millions of dollars. The church is better off today, financially, than it ever was. But we buy buildings. And here I see a great organization is putting six million dollars over here in Missouri, in a place. Where they, all the time, and we say, "The coming of the Lord is at hand," a Pentecostal movement. Others are... Pentecostals, are coming up out from the side streets, and things like that, and they're trying to build the biggest buildings, and get the best educated preacher they can get in there. And they're getting away from all the filling of the Holy Ghost, getting away from Divine healing, getting away from the Holy Ghost, the power.

L-210 And all we're doing now is trying to compete with the Methodists. And now have joined these great leagues of churches, and so forth, absolutely denying our evangelical stand, because we organized, affiliated. Now, they belong to the Council of Churches. What a shame. What a disgrace for such a thing. What a pity, with the opportunities of a dying world, with communism eating it up. And communism was formed because of the weakness of Christianity (That's right.), so-called Christianity.
What an opportunity the Church of the living God has today to rise to its feet with a witness of the baptism of the Holy Ghost and shake this world.

L-212 In the Bible, Jeremiah the 42nd chapter, they had a time like they got now. They were afraid that the king of Babylon was coming over to take them. And all the celebrity, and the big officers and things, they didn't believe them prophets. They just wanted to say they did it to be religious. So they called up old Jeremiah, and they thought he was a-crazy, brought him out of the wilderness there, probably with a blanket wrapped around him, and hair hanging over his face, eating herbs, and whatever he could get out in the wilderness to eat. Walked up, and said, "Prophet, find out from the will of the Lord, for us." Said, "Tell us what we shall do. And we'll obey the Lord, whether it be good or evil."
He said, "I'll seek the Lord for you then."
He went out and was gone ten days before the Lord spoke to him. Come back, and called them all together, and said, "I got THUS SAITH THE LORD." Said, "Hear, ye people." Hallelujah. "That you're scared of the king of Babylon," like we're scared of Russia. Said, "You're all getting ready to run down into Egypt, 'cause you know he's coming."

L-214 And we're fleeing from one city to another, trying to get away from atomic bombs, and building shelters and everything else. What good's it going to do? Get rid of the sin question.
Jeremiah said, "If you will turn to God, give your heart to God, turn your hearts back, and keep His commandments and all of His statutes, and do these things that's right, then don't fear the king of Babylon."
You know what the people said when they heard the--the witness of God? They said, "Thou prophesieth falsely. We're going into Egypt."
When they got down there, Jeremiah come and took two stones, and laid them in the slime pit, said, "My servant, King Nebuchadnezzar, will come right on down here. He'll take it anyhow. You'll die by the sword anyhow."


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