<TITLE>10. Par 40-44</TITLE>L-40 Moses, the runaway prophet, with all the intellectual conception that anyone could have, he was so smart till he could teach the Egyptians. And he tried to put over the program of God with his intellectual conception, and it did not work. And it won't work today. That's right. We are going at it in the wrong way, church in whole. We're trying to organize some kind of a program.
You hear the--the revival's cooling off. It's down to just a smolder. What's the matter? Is because we got our--our man-made programs into it. All they're concerned about today is, seems like, is to joining church, bringing in new members, building some big buildings, supporting some radio program, or something like that.

L-41 We've lost that interest, of really, of souls--that soul travail that the Christian ought to have. We seem to lose it. I'm not talking about the real Christians. I'm talking about so many that profess to be Christians. Now, all you hear today is some big something, and people going into expenses of millions of dollars for great things, and then preaching that the Lord is coming in this generation? Why, the--the sinner on the street knows you don't believe it, or, your--your--your actions speak louder than your words when--when you do that. Certainly.
We ought to be from house to house, from place to place, preaching, and crying, and begging, and persuading, trying to get every soul in the Kingdom of God we can, sending missionaries east, west, north, and south, and everything we can do to get the people saved.

L-42 Now, we find today it's so much on decisions. You hear that all the time, making decisions. I want... Decisions are confessions; confessions are stones. What good does it do to--to pile up a bunch of stones, if you haven't got a stonecutter there who can shape them in by the sharp two-edged sword of God into sons and daughters of God? Let them run around here with all kinds of women dressed like a skinned-down wiener, and call themselves Christians; and men letting them do it, and then calling themselves servants of Christ? And the church in the lukewarm formal condition that it's in, a form of godliness but denying the power thereof, and calling decisions?
We need stones cut into sons and daughters of God by the...?... Good does it do to roll up the stones if you're not going to have them cut? They've got to be cut and fit into the program of God by gifts and callings, and placed into the church as they should be, must be.

L-43 Noah... Moses and his intellectual conception failed just like the church in whole has today. The people go right on living. They come in, make a confession, put their name on. It's a letter; it's a letter. Bring your letter from here to there. It's not a letter; it's a birth. Get born again, and then you belong up there.

L-44 Notice. But Noah, as persistent as he was... He had heard God. And one day this runaway prophet, back on the backside of the desert, he really come on them sacred sands, to where every minister ought to come. No matter how many doctor's degrees he's got, a professor of college, or whatever he may be, he has no business behind the pulpit until first he's caught on them sacred sands between him and God alone; that he's got an experience with God that no scientist in the world could ever hammer away from him.
They can take that Word and cut it any way they want to. The devil uses the Word. He proved it. He uses the Word to cut his own program out. But when a man has once been back there on them sacred sands, where nothing but you and God alone can stand, all the scientists in the world couldn't take it away from you, because you were there, and you met God, and you know what happened. No man...
Jesus wouldn't let them preach until they went up to Jerusalem and was to receive the Holy Ghost before they went preaching any more. That's the experience.


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