<TITLE>15. Par 61-64</TITLE>L-61 Look what those men did. Look what those churches did, what a sacrifice it was, what they had to give up. How they counted their lives not even nothing to them. They stayed on their face day and night praying to the Lord. They went everywhere they could, and searched for every--every crack and corner they could get to, testifying of the Kingdom of God to the people. And today, we just expect the pastor to bring it in his briefcase, or the evangelist, and "Bless God, I belong to the church." That's it. See? "I'm a member there. I'm just... I believe in this church. This--this church is all right."
Sure, building might be all right. Sure. Might be nothing wrong, no termites or nothing in it. But what about the building, the other building? What kind of termites is...?... in it. See? That's the thing that might cause the trouble. See? The termites will eat into the soul. Oh, how we need to check up and see if there's--instead of presuming that we're all right. Yes.

L-62 Yeah, them uncircumcised Egyptians, they thought, "We'll just pass right through the sea like they did," and they lost their lives.
Achan thought, "This little old wedge, it won't make any difference."
"The rest of the ladies are cutting their hair. I'll do the same thing. It won't make any difference."
But what did they do? It never brought pleasure to his family. It brought death to every one of them. And when we compromise on any commandment of God to please the people, we kill the thing right there. One little wedge, one Babylonian garment stopped the marching army. Brother, one thing that we permit the church to do that's wrong, one thing that we won't called out against to make the people straighten it up, it'll stop the march of the church.
They presume you're going on. We may be in name; we may be in numbers, but that ain't what counts. See? That isn't what counts. It's God with us, God in us, God moving through us, His Word alive in us.

L-63 Don't presume that you know that. Watch the way it makes you live, the attitude you take towards sin, how everything... Why, you think about a holy God... Did you ever think that that One, you're going to stand in His Presence, and give an account for this Word, and for Christ, when God's so holy, setting yonder in eternity, when ten million suns would be black spots before Him? So holy that even the angels look filthy in His sight... Angels before Him are filthy.
You expect you and I, with His Word and the Blood of His Son to cleanse us from sin, and walk right over His commandments and walk out into the world, and expect to stand there blameless, when you knowed better than to do it?

L-64 The church better be straightening up. Don't... Let's not presume this, because we're a bigger number than we used to be, and we're more financially better than we used to be. We got better buildings than we used to have; we would dress better clothes than we used to have, we used--we have better cars than we used to have. But, oh, brother, I wonder about Christ, how much is He with us. See? That's it. We're just presuming. Yes, sir. The uncircumcised could not do it. That's right. They got drowned in the sea.
In the days of Noah, when Noah was building that great boat that was going to stem the tides... Well, no doubt but many of the church members of that day said, "Why, that fanatic, what if it does happen? What if it does happen? What if there does come a storm? We'll get in our boat and ride. Our boat's as good as their boat. Our boat will float as much as theirs, whether it's God-constructed or not."


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