<TITLE>14. Par 47-50</TITLE>L-47 You're a father and mother, and you tell your children, "You go over there, I'll give you a whipping." If you love that child, and he transgresses your laws, you'll keep your word. That's right. But if you let him go on, "Well, that's all right." Do it again. See? That's what makes all these here little Melindas, and Rickys, and so forth around. That's what makes juvenile delinquency.
Some of them talk about the ignorance of the people in the mountains of Tennessee and Kentucky. I tell you, some of them old mammies out there would teach some of these modern Jezebels how to raise a young'un. Right. Let one of their young'uns come in with their--woman, night, girl, with their clothes all twisted on her, being out with Ricky all night long somewhere, loved up in a car; and say, "Have a good time, dear?" She'd take a hickory limb off one of them trees, and she wouldn't get out of the house for another year. Certainly. Then say it's ignorance. They know more about it than... Oh, I better shut up there. All right. Go on.

L-48 Now, Israel was presuming. Uh-huh. See what we're hatching out today, presuming? Nest full of buzzard eggs. That's exactly right. They're not eagles. They know nothing about the high places, how to get up there. Their feathers are so loose; they'd strip themselves naked when they get started in the air. That's right. Altitude will pull the feathers out. And the eagle's the only one's got feathers to stand when he gets up there. His feathers are growed in, fastened down, nailed down. Amen. He can go so high till the buzzard, or crow, or chicken hawk, would die trying to follow him.
God said He was an eagle. "I'm Jehovah-eagle, and all My children are eaglets." They know how to fly in the high yonder, where he's just--up there where you just sail along. Amen. Oh, I like to watch them. Yes, sir. Yeah, presuming...

L-49 He said, "Oh, well, God forgive us so many times, He will forgive us again." So they went up.
But Moses said, "He's through with you. When you did this, you crossed the line."
Let's look back and see if we've crossed the line or not. Where did He draw the line on the Lutherans? Where did He draw the line on the Methodists? Where did He draw the line on the Baptists, on the Campbellites, on the Nazarene, on the Pilgrim Holiness, Buddy Robinson's group, and all that? Where did He draw the line on? The same place He's drawed the line on Pentecost. Rot there. God have mercy. That kills me, nearly, to say that. But I'm duty bound to this Word, to tell the truth. But it's the truth. You'll rot right there. She'll never rise again. That's the Word of the Lord.

L-50 Oh, you're presuming. You know, Samson presumed one time too. Samson presumed it was all right. God was a good God. He could run around with women, he could do whatever he wanted to do, and it would be all right. He could expose God's secrets to him, and it would be all right. See what it was? A woman, church. Woman represents church in the Bible. Delilah's that old Jezebel of the day. That's right. So first thing you know, he got himself wrapped around her, and she wrapped him around the finger, and she done just exactly... And he found out all of his strength was gone.
That's exactly what's happened to the church today: wrapped itself around these creeds, and man-made things, and organizations, denominations, and getting away from the Word of God in formalism. And the church looks like the rest of the world, and acts like the rest of the world. And the first thing you know, you find the Holy Spirit's gone. The strength of the Gospel is away from you. What's the matter?
I hope I don't hurt you, but I hope I scorch you, so that you'll... I'd rather be scorched than burned, any time. So--so listen. Stay with the Word.


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