<TITLE>13. Par 44-46</TITLE>L-44 But that's the difference. What did they do? Presume that's the thing to do. It isn't the thing to do. Certainly it isn't.
Now. Ministers preach that, presuming that it'll be all right. It won't be all right. They permit their congregation, their women to wear shorts, smoke cigarettes, their men to have little friendly card parties, pool room; bunco in the church, soup suppers pay off the pastor, everything else that's worldly. People join, thinking that's all right.
Why, I live by the Presbyterian parish. And at midnight the other night there was so much boogie-woogie going on over there in the basement, till it was--it was a shame. Or what's this new winder, they call it? They're--they--them women breaking their legs and things, doing it? You know, what is that? The twist. They need a twisting. They need a--they need a Gospel plank to straighten it out of them. That's what they need: good old Gospel, Holy Ghost-sent revival. They need a twisting, all right, around the neck with Gospel cords.

L-45 But they say, "Oh, He's a good God." He is a good God. But don't you presume on that. He's a God of justice too. He's a good God. Like a little teen-age boy said not long ago. Said, "You know, God's so good He just don't care what I do." Nonsense. He does care what you do.
Yeah, you say, "God's a good God." God is a good God but we hear too much of that today. God is a God of wrath. He's a God of judgment. He was good enough to go down there and take Israel right out of the mouth of death; and turned right in the wilderness, and let them rot because they wouldn't follow Him.
God was a good God to pull you Pentecostals out of them organizations. But you turned right back around and acted like your mammy. So you're rottening in it. (There's a tape recorder going on here; it goes around the world, you know. I'm not so much speaking here now.) But you rot right in it. Then come tell you the truth, then you don't believe it. Here it is wrote right here in the Word. Yes, sir.

L-46 Oh, yes, they presume that He's a good God. Yes, sir. See, they--they don't--they don't presume that He's also a God of judgment. There's where Israel made her mistake. They thought He was so good. He'd done so many things for them. Sure, He brought them up out of Egypt. Sure He did that. He performed miracles. He drawed a line, put the Pillar of Fire between them and the enemy. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Sure, God's a good God. Sure. Let them cross over the Dead Sea, and over the Red Sea, and cross over into--to the wilderness, and--and so forth. He's a good God. When any Egyptian started after them, why, He protected them in the hour of death: killed the Egyptians. Sure. He's a good God.
But His patience run out. Then when He spoke that final Word, that was it. Moses said, "Why are you transgressing the laws of God? God's done said He's through with you." Don't presume too far, brother. That's right. You might cross over that line. There's no return.
You know, there is a line. You remember the borderline believers back there in--in Israel: just borderline. Hebrew 6 says, "It is impossible for those which were once enlightened, and made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and tasted the heavenly gifts, if they shall turn away, to renew themselves again to repentance; seeing that they crucified to themselves the Son of God, and put him to an open shame. And count the Blood of the covenant wherewith they were sanctified with an unholy thing, and done despite to the works of grace." That's right. God's a God of jealousy. He's a God of justice.


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