<TITLE>18. Par 64-66</TITLE>L-64 But today... Them days it was trained, educated church men of His days didn't know the sound. They were good men. You couldn't lay your hand on them. You couldn't say they committed adultery, they lied, they stole, they done this. No, sir. You couldn't say they wasn't smart. They were plenty smart, just as shrewd as they could be.
But they didn't know the sound, and they didn't know what to do. They were flusterated. Oh, how I'd... Just holding something back. I'd like to blast them. Talk about a flusteration... Yes, flusterated, they didn't know what to do. They seen something happen, and they knowed they had to answer to their people. And instead of taking the Gospel and searching it out, when He stood there and perceived their thoughts, and He... They said... They was going to tell their people He was Beelzebub. They just cast it off and said, "Oh, it's of the devil."
And Jesus turned around and said, "I forgive you for that. But someday the Holy Ghost is coming to do the same thing, and one word against It will never be forgiven." The uncertainty, and the certainty: when the certain sounds, the uncertain's confused, and when the uncertain sounds, the certain's confused until he sees where he's--what's sounding. Yes.
A man who knows where he's standing, he can hear what--hear the uncertain sound, but he won't listen to it. That's right. A stranger they will not follow.

L-65 All right. What happened? What made them that way? What did they do it? How did they do it? They denied the Word. And when you deny the Word, there's only one thing to build upon, and that's the educational system. When the truth is denied, education is accepted. That's exactly right. They took education.
Same thing today. Look at our Pentecostal churches, brethren. Now, we might as well open our eyes and say it's the truth. Our churches is not what they used to be. Now, your churches are my brethren. They're fine. I love them. That's the reason I'm with them. If I didn't believe in them, I sure wouldn't be around here saying what I'm saying. I love them. But what's happened?
Instead of them experiences we used to have with God, we send our children over here to school somewhere, and get a Ph.D. and a LL.D., and bring him home. And he knows no more about God than a Hottentot knows about Egyptian knight. Right. We take our children to--in the Sunday schools. God don't have any grandchildren. God has sons. That's right. But we take them in, say, "Well, they're Pentecostal 'cause their mother was Pentecost and raised them up Pentecostal." That don't make them Pentecostals.

L-66 God don't have any grand-kids. He only has sons and daughters, not granddaughters and grandsons. He only has sons and daughters. That little Ricky's got to pay the same price that grandpa paid, do the same thing that grandpa had, get the same experience that grandpa and grandma had. If he don't, he's lost.
Don't turn your head to look back. Keep on going. Don't look at the world, and some of these fashionable things, and some of these hands full of denominational stuff they're handing out. We're all guilty. That's right, don't know that certain sound. We accept little dogmas and keep them.


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