<TITLE>16. Par 122-128</TITLE>L-122 Say, "Well, we have revivals." Look at the moral decay in the church. Look how corruptible it's getting every year. Look at our Pentecostal groups, how it's fallen. Shut your eyes and think of it fifteen years ago when I was here, then look out and see what you got today. You know that's the truth! It's a sin and shame. That's right. Getting further and further away from the Word of God, all the time.

L-123   Samson knew his backslidden condition. He knowed he couldn't have strength to meet the challenge of the hour, though he was there. All of his machinery was there. The same muscles that could take the jawbone and beat down a million Philistines, the same muscles hung on the same man. The same shoulders that could pack the gates of Gaza up on top of the mountain, was still them same muscles hanging on him. Oh, I could say something here, see. But he knowed that he couldn't meet the challenge of the hour.

L-124 So does the church know, in its immoral corruption, we'll never meet the challenge of the hour. Communism's taking the whole thing over. And what are we trying to do? Find consolation, by joining up with, yoking up with these people, denominations who don't even believe in Divine healing and the power of God. How can two walk together 'less they be agreed? We yoke ourselves up amongst stuff like that, and then expect God... We say, "Big numbers." God don't notice big numbers. God looks for character.

L-125   I said Eliezer sweated it out till he found character in Rebekah. Then he had to get her dressed up, ready, let her stand still and listen at his Message. The trouble of it is, today, when you find character, it's hard to make them stand still long enough to put on clothes and get dressed up. That's right. Some little Ricky's done pulled them off in some other direction. That's right. But, there, Eliezer sweated it out.

L-126   Now, Samson knew that he did not have the strength, though he had the muscles. And we've got all our machinery. We've got the great district presbyters, we got all the bishops, we got the archbishops, we got the popes, we got the hierarchy. We got all the machinery. We got the builtest, biggest buildings and most of the money of the earth. What good does it do us? It's a sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal. That's right. But we know we're not able to meet the challenge of the hour.

L-127   Today, in Russia, Communism is taking the world. What's the matter? It's somebody that's got the audacity to stand up under convictions, though it's wrong. Only one percent of Russia is Communist, one percent! Ninety-nine percent is still so-called Christianity, free, but they haven't got the I.Q. of the Gospel. They haven't got what it takes, though they got the money and they got all this, but they haven't got the courage and the grace. What God needs in Russia is one man anointed with the power of God, with the power of the Holy Ghost.

L-128   Samson knowed what he needed. We might turn the whole America back, and every one of them go to church, we still haven't got it. Got... hasn't got what it takes. The disciples didn't have It till they went to Pentecost. Jesus told them they didn't have It, after being preaching for three years. Still they needed It. The church needs It. That's right.


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