<TITLE>07. Par 30-34</TITLE>L-30 They love the pleasures of the world more than they love the Kingdom of God. Their life proves it. It's exactly. What they live shows it. There's no difference in them, seems to be, who is a believer and who's not. Talk to them, they tell just as dirty a jokes, and they have their societies and so forth, and carry on just like the rest of the world.

L-31 I lived across the street from a--a great parish of a great order of Christian people, as they call themselves. And every Saturday night in the floor of the manse, why, you never heard such carrying on, and twist, and rock and roll, and boogly-woogly, and all that ungodly stuff, and carry on. And then on Sunday morning go to the church with a pious look on their face. Brother, when the Holy Spirit comes into a life, It changes that life from the bottom of his feet to the top of his head.
And the sad part, it's creeping into our Pentecostal organizations. It's getting into there because just as it's always been...

L-32 When Israel saw the other nations had a king, and they wanted to act like the other nations, the old prophet came to them (Samuel), and he said, "You must... You're a different people. You mustn't be like them. God is your king." He said, "Have I ever told you anything in the Name of the Lord but what come to pass? Have I ever begged you for your money, or taken your finances, and so forth, to build great honorable monuments and everything else?"

L-33 They had to say that he didn't. He said, "Then listen to me." And he had the Word of the Lord. But the people had to admit that everything that he had said had been the Word of the Lord, and it had come to pass just as he said it would come to pass. But yet the people wanted to look like the rest of the people.
That's the way it is today, that the churches are trying to pattern after the other churches. Christ is our Pattern. So exactly then.
Now, they didn't want it. They didn't want the message. What if that king would've humbled himself? What if he'd have come down to the--been humiliated, and had went back to God and repented? I believe the man would've lived. I believe Elijah would've come to him with the Word of the Lord, and the man would've lived. But he hardened his heart and would not listen to the Lord.
And Elijah said, "Go ask him. Is it because there's no--no God in Israel? He has no prophet?" No, he had a prophet. He had... There was a God--but the king didn't want it. That's what it is today.

L-34 It's just like a patient setting on a doctor's doorstep, and die setting on the doorstep, because he's too stubborn to go in to take the medicine the doctor's got for him. Exactly: die on the step of the doctor's, setting out there. And the doctor says, "I've got the remedy for your ailment," but he's just too stubborn to go in and take it. That's a dangerous thing. A fellow could die, and he would die, setting there, when there's plenty of medicine. They've got a toxin for it but they--he won't take it. He's just too stubborn.
Well then, you can't lay it onto the doctor, and you can't lay it onto the medicine; it's the man. He's the one. So is it today. Men and women will set in the church, in the church pew, and hear the unadulterated Gospel in the power of the Holy Ghost, and see the manifestations and the demonstrations of His Spirit, of a living resurrected Christ, and die in sin, setting in the church pew, not because there's no balm, not because there's no physician; but it's because the people are too stubborn to take the medicine, trying to find the least way of resistance, going the way of the world, perishing in the gainsaying of Korah.
You know what Korah done. It's always the leaders that gets the people mixed up, and that they perish in the gainsaying of Korah. Sure.


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