<TITLE>32. Par 342-349</TITLE>L-342 Now, Elijah didn't say, "Go get some vessels and borrow a lot of oil, and we'll see if we can't get a good sale price on it, and you get a little more and you can pay the neighbor back like that." He said, "Just get the empty vessels. That's all you need."
That's what it was at Pentecost; they had empty vessels so God could fill them up. Brother, this day demands that. This day's got to have that. We'll have that or perish. I'm going to close now. Listen. We've got to have that or perish. Yes, sir.

L-344 The big ecclesiastical machines that we've got, the big church machines has carboned up; it's got a spiritual knock in them. (Brother Collins is somewhere here, and Brother Hickerson...) I think the crankshaft's bad. Something has gone wrong. They use the wrong kind of gasoline; she's all carboned up. They use seminary experience instead of the Holy Ghost.
Our great revivals of the land, our great men, our healing campaigns has all failed. We know it has. Look at our noble evangelist, Billy Graham, crossed the nation back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. What good's it done? Oral Roberts, healing campaigns everywhere, and it's getting wickeder all the time, because it's all Baptist, Presbyterian, Assemblies of God, all these other different organizations, get them all together. What is it? A great big ecclesiastical machine, and God's filled it full of carbon for you. Now, she's just chugging, "chug," pump, pump, pump, "chug," pump, pump, pump, little bit here and there. She's done. She's finished. The gasoline's run out; you poured water in it. Everything's gone (Yes, sir.), flat tires on both sides. We're in a terrible shape. The ecclesiastical machine has stopped.

L-347 And, brother, the lid's come off of hell (That's right.) and streams of demon power is pouring from everywhere. It's conquered the nations. It's conquered politics till it's rotten to the core. It's conquered the churches until they know nothing but denomination.
You say, "Are you a Christian?"
"I'm a Methodist. "
"Are you a Christian?"
"I'm--I'm Pentecostal."
That don't mean no more, as I said the other day, than being a pig, or a hog, or a horse, or something. That has nothing to do with it. You're a Christian when you are born again and filled with the Holy Ghost, not until that, and you're yielded completely to the Spirit. If you're not yielded to the Spirit, then you're not borned again and you don't have the Holy Ghost. You might speak in tongues and shiver, and jump and run, and do all kinds of...

L-349 Paul said, "I can move mountains with faith; I can heal the sick; I can have knowledge of the Bible; I can go to a seminary and learn all this stuff, everything," said, "I'm nothing yet." Hallelujah.
Oh, my, talk about the lid off of the kettle: demons going around, powers of the devil under the name of Christianity, teaching for doctrine the commandments of men, theological seminary doctrines, leaving the Bible alone. Hallelujah. Who's able to... Who's strong enough, who's wise enough? Who's powerful enough to tame this legion stripping the clothes off of our women in the name of preachers, Methodist, Baptist, and even Pentecostal? Painting their faces like Jezebel, and bobbing their hair, and wearing pants just like men, our preachers, not enough get up about them to tell them about it: devil-possessed... It was the legion that tore his clothes off of him. Who is this roaring devil?


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