<TITLE>11. Par 37-40</TITLE>L-37 Brother, sometime I'd have to knock to who wouldn't have it. But I found something. Don't baby them; pour it on. You'll appreciate me when you come to Calvary. See? When you come to the end of the road, you'll say, "Praise God. I'm glad I took that old rugged way. Here I stand washed in the Blood of the Lamb." See? Don't palaver around them old creeds and things out there. Come on, get in the Way. God has a Way, a plan. It was wrote right here in the Bible. Let's stay with that.
But the people come join what? They presume they're doing what's right. Then they say, "Where is God? Where is God of the Old Testament? Where is the God Who raised up the prophets? Where is the God that promised all these things?" Why, surely He ain't going to work there. He can't. There's nothing for Him to work on.
My old southern mammy used to tell me, "How can you get blood out of a turnip? It hasn't got no blood in it." That's right. How you going to get spiritual signs and wonders in a dead morgue, ecclesiastical froze-up?
You got to get Spirit in the Body of Christ; that's His Word. "My Words are Spirit," said Jesus. They are.

L-38 Now, people join. They think it's all right (That's right.), presuming it's all right. Preachers go ahead preaching that kind of a dogma. And knowing the Bible says another thing, they'll preach it anyhow, presuming they're right. What is it? "Taking the tradition of men's and making the commandments of God of non effect."
They have--they have a part of the--the Gospel. They preach a part of it, sure, take a part. Satan took pretty near ninety-nine percent of the Gospel that God told Eve, and admitted that it was the truth. But when it come to this one little thing, he said, "Now, I don't say it isn't true. But surely, you know that that was the days gone by. You--you'll be like this." See?

L-39 Don't add nothing, don't take nothing away from it. Just keep it the way it is. Don't presume anything. Just have faith in the Word. If that Pentecostal church would've stayed with that, the rapture would done been gone.
Oh, you say, "Wait a minute, brother. Now, now, you said something wrong."
No, I never. No, I never. I know what I said. In the days of Noah... The Bible said, "As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man."
In the days of Noah, God was long-suffering, went way past time (See?), no willing--not willing that any should perish. See? He went on, on, and on, long-suffering. The same thing today, as far as it was in that day, waiting for His church to come to recognition of His Word in the end. But they just keep on.
Every time God sends somebody and blasts away, just as soon as he's taken off the scene, a bunch of Rickys and Elvises gets together, you know, with their great D.D.'s. They add this to it, and add that to it, and the first thing you know it's just all gone out.

L-40 Our Pentecostals the same way: a big part of them denying Divine healing and everything else. See? The worst I ever was treated on--on Divine healing was Pentecostal ministers. Why, I--I rented a armory in a certain city, and I didn't have enough seats to put the people. And them poor people come off them hills of Arkansas from everywhere, coming to the meeting.
And I went to one of the greatest organizations of the--of the Pentecostal movement. And it was... Why, the spiritual thermometer was ninety below zero. Why, you ought to have seen it. That man had about three hundred benches. They'd built a nice big church. Sure. People think that prosperity is a sign of spiritual blessing. That's exactly contrary.
And I asked him; I said, "Can I have these seats? I'll pay you so much for them."
He said, "I wouldn't let anyone set on my seats that believed in Divine healing." That's Pentecostal.


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