<TITLE>13. Par 56-60</TITLE>L-56 And until the church of the living God that's called the bride of Christ gets herself connected with God like that, she'll still wallow in the world in the mirey clay of sin, until she's connected with God in such a way, till her heart's so filled with glory and power of God, until she can't see nothing else but Christ. That's right.
That's what we'll have to do. That's the only plan, the only program God has, is to do a thing like that. You've got to be not artificially took in; you've got to be borned in, not shook in, or bring a letter to the church, but to be borned in the church of the living God by the regeneration, by the power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that makes you a new creature in Him. Amen. That straightens it up. That does it. Sure.

L-57 All right. She goes wild. She starts sharing her love with others, worldly things, worldly amusements, going to the places she oughtn't to go, saying the things she oughtn't to say.
Here one time I was--they was having a ladies,' some kind of a church party upstairs. I happened to have something to do at the basement of this house. And I tell you; I've heard some awful things when I was a sinner. But that woman's meeting, I never heard any worse jokes in all my life. Could you imagine, a person that's called a Christian, would let such filth flow from them?
You can't get sweet and good water out of the same cistern. You put a bucket into the well, and it comes out full of wiggle-tails, we call them. When you put the bucket down again, it'll bring out the same thing. The cistern needs a scouring out and a filling up with good water.

L-58 That's what's the matter with the church today, universally speaking, that she needs a scouring out, and a filling up with God's holy waters from heaven. Her heart's become a cesspool of anything that comes along. She's got lovers of all kinds. The Bible said she'd have lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, and despisers of those that are right.
See a woman that tries to live right, a man that tries to live right, he becomes a holy-roller, she becomes a fanatic or some old fashion something. She's a castaway. She's despised and rejected by the people of this world. That's right.

L-59 But did you ever notice what the real church is supposed to do? In the Old Testament, when they had the--the sacrifice they killed one bird, and put the blood of one upon the other, the dead mate. And it flew across the earth spreading the blood of the dead mate. When the church becomes the real bride of Jesus Christ, she'll carry the Blood of Jesus Christ with her, sprinkling it upon the ground, calling, "Holy, holy, holy, unto the Lord." Her atmosphere, her... Every bit of her will be of God. Her whole makeup will be of God. You can't expect nothing else.

L-60 That's why people come to church too, not to play cards, and play poker, dance in the basement, have soup suppers, and things like that. That's for the world. And we'll never be able to compare with them, and shame on us for trying it. We should preach the Holy Ghost, and power, and the resurrection of Christ. We've got something they haven't got. Let us live it, not try to copy after them. Live what we know is right; live in Christ. Jesus said, "If I be lifted up, I'll draw all men unto Me. Ye are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has lost its savour, then it's good for nothing, but to be cast out, and trod under the feet of men." Our testimonies...


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