<TITLE>12. Par 93-100</TITLE>L-93 Anybody in that... Such things as we have today, a Christian nation, oh, what a thing. Separation... Ninety percent of those sing in choirs, the Elvis Presley, and a Pat Boone, and all that, and a Peabody Ernie, ever what they call him down here. Why, it's worse than Judas Iscariot. Judas Iscariot sold, and got thirty pieces of silver; Elvis beat him; he got several fleets of Cadillacs and a lot of popularity. And because these little kids see all that carrying on, say, "He's very religious." That's the devil. Absolutely. God don't in-tolerate such stuff as that. That's a blinder here in the last days.
Come back to the Word, "Separate yourself from all of the ungodly things, and touch not their thing. I will receive you."

L-95 The Gospel, we need to handle It bare handed, not with some ecclesiastical gloves on, petting somebody on the back, that gets a nest full of rotten eggs again, making somebody a district man, or a presbyter, a bishop, or something another. What does the... How can you have faith when you got respect, or get honor one from another? We look to God and Him alone. Honor comes from God. He's the One that... We honor Him by holding His Word as a torch, and walking like a man or a woman before God.
[Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... crossed over the river and went into the land, God said, "Abraham, I'll give it all to you now, but you haven't fully obeyed Me."

L-97 And the first thing you know, there come up a little fuss about the herdsmen, and amongst their cattlemen, in Genesis 13. What happened? The herdsmen of Lot and the herdsmen of--of Abraham. Watch Abraham, the brotherly act; he said, "Let there be no arguments between us. We are brethren." Lot represented the lukewarm church. And he said, "Look out; take your choice. Whatever you want, you go ahead and take it. You go east; I'll go west, so forth. Or, you go west; I'll go east. You go north; I'll go south, and so forth. You take your choice." And Lot already been down in Egypt and had got the eye on a little popularity, got a little money in his pocket...

L-98 That's where the church made its mistake. I say this with reverence, brethren. The Pentecostal church would be better off with a tambourine, out there on the corner, with the old fashion men and women, with the baptism of the Holy Ghost, than they would in these great big shrines and morgues they're living in today under all this tommyrot and stuff. That's right? They want to act like the rest of them. That's where we got it. Why didn't you stay the way you were, the way God started you out? The very thing you fussed about, you turned around and done the same thing.
That's the way Lot did, went down into Egypt, and the first thing you know, he got his eyes on Egypt. And then he looked over and he seen Sodom, luxury, take it easy. And he went eastward toward... Remember, went east instead of going west with Abraham. He went east because it was the way of luxury. He went on towards the east.

L-100 That's the way the church has did today (See?); they went backwards. As I said last night, the sun rises in the east and goes west. And the Son of God visit the east first, and has went westward. They visit out through two thousands years. "But there will be Light in the evening time," this prophet said. Instead of following the Son, they go back to where the Son was. Today you happen to speak something about Divine healing, about the prophecy, about the nine spiritual gifts, or something; "Let's go back and see what Moody said, what Sankey said, what Knox said, what Calvin said." They lived in the day when the Son was shining there; we are going on to perfection.


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