<TITLE>12. Par 91-99</TITLE>L-91 There stood Samson, a victim of such stuff, as an example to us, great man. Oh, my, how they let him do it! As Samson thought of the errors, thought of the things that he had done, and how he failed God. I wonder, does it ever dawn on people, when you hear such Messages against it? Wife said to me the other day, said after...

L-92   Somebody had bawled me out, said--said, wrote me a letter, and said, "Billy, why don't you keep off them women about their bobbed hair, and their way their..." Said, "People believe you to be a seer. You should teach the women how to get great spiritual gifts, and leave that go."

L-93 I said, "How can I teach them algebra when they won't even learn their ABC's?" See? See? Certainly! How can you do it? Such a conglomeration of sin, the mark of it shows. Anyone knows that paint is a heathen trait. I'm a missionary. Heathens paint! The Indians painted their faces here in Arizona before they knowed God. They ever knowed God, you don't have to tell them no more about it, they take it off. Shows they're at war with God. When they take it off, shows they're at peace with God.

L-94   We call ourself a Christian nation, call our people Christian people. I stood in Africa one day where the Lord had brought back to health a man that was so deformed, the little cross-eyed boy, and the things that He had did there in about fifteen minutes' time. And I asked, "How many," out of two hundred fifty thousand that I was speaking to at Durban, "will receive the Lord Jesus?" And they raised up, about thirty-something thousand.

L-95 They said, I had fifteen interpreters, they said, "They meant physical healing."

L-96 I said, "I meant salvation!" I put it through the interpreters again. I said, "All that understand me..." They were packing little idols sprinkled with blood, buckeye, every kind of a superstition, lion claws. And I said, "You that believe and want to get away from your superstitions and serve the God that's able to make this man whole, was standing here as you've seen Him done today, and even put him back in his right mind, if you want Him as your Saviour, show your sincerity, break your idol on the ground." It was like a dust storm.

L-97   And standing there, women who were stark-naked, besides a clout that hung in the front of them, all up in their waistline was naked. And I said, "Raise your hand and pray a sinner's prayer, and say, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner.'" And I said, "Upon the same grounds that you stand on, raise up your hands now and accept Christ's baptism of the Spirit. Some ministers here will baptize you in Christian baptism." And when they raised their hands, them women who didn't know right and left hand, come in there perfectly naked, but when they walked away they even folded their arms to get out of the presence of the company. One minute's time with Jesus Christ made them know they were naked.

L-98 And today, year by year, we strip more off and take more off. And, oh, I never... And then call it God? What's done it? Your organization that permits you to do it. That's right. The system that you was raised up to clean yourself out of, you brought it right back in again. I hope I don't sound sacrilegious, I hope I'm... It isn't sacrilegious, it's the Word of the Lord. Certainly, it is!

L-99   Now, now we find out that while Samson stood there looking over his error, looking what had been done, in his inner conscience, that he had--he had failed God, he had failed God's people. And there he stood as an example, thinking back what he was and thinking now what he was. And when he did that, he cried out!


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