<TITLE>13. Par 100-107</TITLE>L-100 Oh, if the church, tonight, would stand still a minute and look back to the day of Pentecost, look back to where we started from, and realize the condition that our creeds and fussing has got us into. Cry out again! Samson cried, "Lord God, revenge my two eyes!" If we could cry that same penitent cry, "Lord God, these things has guided me blind all these times!" He knew there was a price to pay. You know it now.

L-101   Meda, my wife, said to me, she said, "You go back across the nations, back and forth all the time, preaching, you go right back, the people just doing the same thing. And what good does it?"

L-102 I said, "In the day of the judgment, there will be a tape recording on God's great tape." You're not ignorant of these things. God will blast It across the sky. He's got to have a Voice there to condemn the world by, and the Voice is the Gospel.

L-103 "Revenge me, Lord, of mine enemies. Revenge my eyesight! They poked it out, Lord, and here I stand." Samson also knew there was a possibility that God might once again hear him. Even in his condition, there was a possibility. Oh, church, there is a possibility regardless of all they're doing. As we hear today, so much, "So many made decisions, decisions." Decisions means "a stone, a confession." As I have said before, what good does a stone do if you haven't got a stone mason there with a sharp Word to cut that stone into a placed stone for the building? What good does it do to make decisions if you still let the women and the man remain as they was, and just join the church? It's a pile of stones that's not shaped into nothing. What we need is a stone mason, a man with the Word of God, a vindicated power to prove that God sent him, to shake that Church and cut off the worldly things, and shape them into the stones of the sons and daughters of God that go into His building. Certainly right. Oh, my!

L-104   He knew the possibilities, though, that there could be God would hear prayer. If we could only do that tonight! Jesus said, when He was here on earth, the... John 14:12, "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also." Jesus said, or the Bible said, in Hebrews 13:8, that was quoted a while ago, "Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today, and forever." And we call this denominational life in us the Life of Christ, and do the things that we do? "Why call ye Me 'Lord,' and keep not My commandments?" See? "Why call ye that?"

L-105 Oh, if you haven't got five members in your church, get the Truth to it, a possibility. And the same now, a possibility. But they of today don't seem to catch the vision like Samson did. They don't seem to get it, think, "Well, I'm pretty well settled down, and we have good churches, and we haven't got none..." See?

L-106   The Bible said, "That rich, Laodicea church age would have need of nothing, and not know that she was naked, blind, miserable, and don't even know it." Now, if you seen a person come down the street, that was naked and blind, and you could tell them that they were in that shape, they were naked, they had to get somewhere and get hid, well, there's a possible that you could bring the person off the street. But when they turn around, with not mental powers enough to know it; but now the church hasn't got spiritual power enough to know it. Naked, miserable, blind, wretched, poor. Christ on the outside, knocking, trying to get in, and yet you say you have need of nothing.

L-107 I know that's foreign to some of you, but it's God's Truth. The Word says so. They don't catch the vision. You can tell them about it, it just goes right off. Maybe right then there's a little conviction, tomorrow It's all forgotten about, they go right on back to their card party, and all their stitch 'n' sew, and--and belong to all these things, and That's all forgotten about.


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