<TITLE>17. Par 68-71</TITLE>L-68 Could you imagine a woman stretching herself with a pair of--of these shorts on, walking up and down the streets, when the Bible condemn it? Could you imagine people doing, the--the people today living the way they do, and then saying they got the Holy Ghost?
Why, the very fruits that you bear, people, prove you haven't got it. You're blowing a whistle that you know nothing about. When you're dead, you're dead. When you're alive, you're alive. And old things pass away and every Word of God is punctuated with an "Amen." No matter what your creeds or denomination says, the Bible says it. "Upon this rock I'll build My church; and the gates of hell can't prevail against it," said Jesus. Whew. Amen. I'm guess you think I get angry. I don't. I just get bubbled. See? Love, love is correction. Love is Divine correction. Oh, promise...

L-69 Why? Why do they run from place to place? Why do they join this, and run to this one over here, this organization, or that? They just build up steam. What's the matter? They've never come to the right refuge yet. There's peace, love, joy, long-suffering, gentleness, patience, faith in the Holy Ghost, in the Kingdom of God. These other things has passed away.
The Name of the Lord is a mighty tower. We--we reach it, and we believe it, and we're safe in God's pavilion. And when--when you do that, you know then that you've passed from death unto Life. You look back and see where once you disbelieved God, and now you believe Him. You see where once you fussed over a creed and now you're in the Bible.

L-70 One time the--somebody told you that there was no such a thing as speaking in tongues, there was no such a thing as this, and the Bible didn't teach this. And you read it, and there it was in the Bible. And you say, "But the pastor says, or the--my denomination says that was for another day." Well, you're still dead in sin. Rise above. That's unbelief.
"Oh," you say, "but I live holy." There's nobody in here; there ain't a Pentecostal in America can live as holy as them African heathens. No, sir. How about the Mohammedans? How about their holiness? Try to live with them one time. Try to compare your righteousness.

L-71 One tribe there, if a young girl don't get married to a certain time, she's tested for her virgincy and find out why she didn't get married. If she's found defiled she has to tell the man that did it, and they both killed together. They'd be a lot of killing in the nations if that would be, wouldn't it, around here? Try to compare with that.
Oh, but today we can tell the people to live. And they puff up and blow up, and run over to something else, and say, "I don't want to hear it. Why, you're always bawling me out." That reminds me of Micaiah when he stood before Elijah, or 'fore Ahab. He stood there because he's taken Elijah's word. He compared his vision with what the prophet had said before him, with the Word of God. And when we get a vision and it don't compare with the Word of God, then leave it alone. Stay with the Word. Yes, sir.


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