<TITLE>32. Par -</TITLE>L-49-2 Amos knew that their ungodly lovers would soon destroy her, for they, the church, had left Him, God, and His Word, the way of life. They'd got away from God's way of life and made their own. Oh, the Word was a stumbling block to them, and It's the same thing today. The Word of God is a stumbling Block to the so-called Christian. Tell him about the water baptism in the Name of Jesus Christ. Tell him about the holy God that'll make...
Well, they say, "Well, we got the Holy Ghost." Then why are you still wearing bobbed hair? Why do you still baptize in the name of Father, Son, Holy Ghost? Why do you still believe in these other things that you believe and acting the way you do? Goes to show that your fruits prove it. Jesus said, "By their fruits they're known." See, that just goes to show you; you're talking about something you know nothing about. Yes, sir.

L-49-4 Yes. If Amos was here, he'd cry against their systems. You know that?
Now, I'm going to read one verse before closing, the 8th verse of the 3rd chapter, and let's read.
The lion has roared, who will not fear? the Lord... has spoken, who can but prophesy?
Listen. In closing now I want to say this. I'm sorry to have kept you a half hour late, but look; I want to say this: I'm a hunter; I hunt. I'm glad God give me something like that. The other day when the gun went off, I went right back down to see if I could shoot again. I don't want it to scare me. If I had a wreck out on the road, I wouldn't quit driving a car. If I walk across the floor, and stumble my toe on the carpet, and went through the window, I wouldn't quit walking. See? No, no. God give me a clean exercise; that was Satan; that wasn't God. See? That was Satan.

L-50-1 Now, I know the spiritual application to it. There's three of us in this room right now that knows what it is, and it'd raise the hair on your head. But I wouldn't tell no one (See?), just these three people for a confirmation. Now, it's all all right. It's all... God knowed all about it, and forewarned it, and everything else; and we know. And it's partly my fault, and I had something... I'd--I'd took up for a man one time, when I should not have took up. I could've just shook the liver out of him. See? Instead of doing it, I had to pay for it. So then... So we... That's all right; it's me, and it's forgiven now, and we'll go on. See?

L-50-2 Yes, Amos, this 8th verse: "If a lion roars who will not fear?" I've hunted in the African jungles. I've been around where lions were. He's the king of the beasts. I've laid out in the jungles at nighttime and hear the squawking and the hyenas, the laughing, the howling, and--and the--and the different animals. And then some of them hyenas would make--just curdle your blood when they scream. And there was leopards and--a-whining, and everything else, and beetles, and monkeys, and baboons, and thousands times thousands squeak, squawk, walk everywhere; you can hear all kinds of things going on, but let a lion roar, the beetles will even keep still. It's a deathly hush. They keep still. What? Their king has spoken. Amen.


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