<TITLE>08. Par 29-31</TITLE>L-29 And may I stop here a minute? Do you see what I'm hammering at day after day and night after night? It's not that I've got anything against Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterian, or denominations. It's because you are losing that sincerity, that something that you should have in your worship. It just becomes a family tradition.
When we come to church, and you say, "Do you believe in being borned again?"
"Yes, sure. Uh-huh, yeah."
"Do you believe in the--the blood of the..."
"Oh, sure, sure. Sure, sure, I accepted it."
See, there's nothing sincere about it. When he goes to make his offering of sin and takes the communion, he just takes it any way, whether he's smoking, drinking, running with somebody else's wife, or--or women acting any way. And they go take that communion. When, do you realize that the Bible says, "If a man eats this flesh and drinks this Blood unworthily, is guilty of the body and the Blood of the Lord?" We've lost the sincerity. There's something wrong with us. Our solemn feast ain't like it used to be.

L-30 This might be appropriate for this time. There's something or other, that we can't even stay awake, hardly, through a sermon. It isn't here that way, but in many places somebody's always pulling on my coattail, "Hey, hey, hey. We got to do so-and-so." What's any more important than the going forth of the Word of God? That's what I thought of things.
The street meetings that... Used to the old fashion preacher'd stand there, and preach till the blo--blood and sweat, as it was, run down into his shoes. Have a street meeting today, it's a lot of singing, a lot of something else. And brother, somebody tries to lead in prayer, and prays for the president, and everybody else, and goes through it for about an hour, and the people's done walked away. The Word is the main thing, the Word. But we've lost the interest. Sometimes...
I appreciate testimonies. I appreciate music, and all those things. But that isn't it. It takes the preaching of the cross. It takes a circumcision of the Spirit to bring life. There's where our sincerity's gone away. It's been a time that we notice the great sincerity. When a man knows that it's wrong for these things to creep into his church, and then don't tell them about it? Where is that deep sincerity?
A minister told me, said, "You're going to lose your ministry."
I said, "God gave me this ministry. And if the Word of God, preaching that, makes me lose it, then I missed the boat somewhere. God will honor His Word. He's waiting for it."

L-31 Now, the sincerity. We don't have it. It seems to be such small interest. It should be in time of this jubilee, right now, after we know and are positive of these things, it should be that Shreveport would be buzzing like a buzz saw. The jail ought to be full, hanging out the windows, preaching the Gospel. The street corners ought to be full of men and women testifying to the power of God.
Yet, we believe it, we say. But we've lost the sincerity and the enthusiasm that it is to receive It. Now, that's the truth. That's exactly. And we'll never come back until we come down to that spot of appreciation of God making a way for us, and then calling us in it, and vindicating it to us by His Spirit and by His Word, that assurance that we have.


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