<TITLE>22. Par -</TITLE>L-33-3 But they lost Him. Well trained choirs and well trained preachers... Yeah! Oh, my. All kinds of curly hair, you know, and bow their head over this way to get their picture taken, and oh... Yeah, well trained, they sure are; that's well trained.
Large Sunday schools... Sure. Each church trying to outdo another one in Sunday school. And Sunday school's not even spoke of in the Bible. That's a Methodist dogma. It was first called ragged school. Everybody now goes to Sunday school that can't stay for church, because they took something besides what God said. That's right.
And remember, I never said I preached anything in inspiration in my life I had to take back, like I did the altars the other day and things, you know. Serpent's seed or any of that, let someone come and tear it down with the Word of God.

L-33-6 No, that's where they lost Him. Large Sunday school, or the biggest tent there is, the best dressed group in the town; that's Pentecost. "Why, we belong to the First Church; the best group in the town goes there." Deacons married three or four times, deacon on the board, maybe the pastor too, all kinds of nonsense in the churches today... See? Where did they do? They lost Jesus.
"Well, you know our denomination is the biggest one in Pentecost. Our men are the best trained men there is in there." They may be all that; I don't deny that. That goes to lodges and--and the theological fields. But I'm wanting to know a man that knows Jesus, has seen Him, and been borned again, and the Word's reflecting Itself in his word. You can see It isn't his, It's... He's give hisself so completely over till it's Christ speaking through him. There you are. That's why the signs and wonders follows that Word, because It's God's Word. But if God's Word says a certain thing and this group says, "Oh, no, no, no, our organization will kick us out if we believe that," then he's done right there; he cut hisself off right there; that's all. You might mechanically work up something; you might put some kind of a hoax out and imagine this, that, or the other; but the real genuine thing isn't there. Yes, sir. Oh, sure.

L-34-1 The churches--the churches are swapping Christ for the world and creeds. The church is on a swapping program. Oh, they sure want to--to swap. Yes, sir. They'll go and they'll swap. They want--on a swapping program. They want to swap what God says for what the denomination says. They want to swap what God says to the--follow the pastor. They want to swap what God says to the--follow the organization. They're swapping. Do you know what? The people's shopping. Oh, there's a big commercial going on now. It's another Christmas, just a bogus made-up. (We had just a little more time, I'm going to get back on this subject again one day. Passing too much up here that the Holy Spirit give me awhile ago. See?)
While the church is swapping, the church is shopping, the people are, so-called church. Yes, sir. They're swapping; they sure are. Shopping and swapping, they're shopping for what? The biggest church, the best dressed crowd, the biggest denomination. And the people (I'm going to say something.), the people is trying to find (even Pentecostals)...

L-34-3 The Pentecostal women is trying to find a place that they'll let them get by with more things of the world: shorts, bobbed hair, paint. They're shopping. "Bless God, I'm Pentecostal. Hallelujah, I belong to this," and; "Oh, our pastor don't believe..." See? You're shopping for the ones that'll let them live the dirtiest (God, have mercy.), the one will let them live the filthiest and the most like the world that they can. They're shopping from place to place, turning down Christ. That might grind like everything. It was meant to do it.
The people's shopping. They're Christmas shopping where they can find bargains, bargain hunters. "Well, I'm Pentecostal too. Well, we don't have that old narrow-minded stuff." But the Bible says so.


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