<TITLE>07. Par 47-53</TITLE>L-47 May I say this with reverence, there has been formed a system of Jezebel, that's conquering, bringing them all into a federation, all the denominations, Pentecostals and all, into the World Council of Churches, which is no more than a trap of the Devil, to take away from you what you got. Then she'll laugh at you. Stripped of power, by that woman!

L-48   Pentecost, a few years ago, no more than fifty years ago, stood out. The people stood different. They come out of--of different groups of worldliness, because of their worldliness, and stood out as an example. And God has took that church, and today it's one of the most powerful churches in the world. But the thing that she's doing, she's turned right straight back around and went back into the same conglomeration that she was called out of. And when she begins to do that, her power is taken from her. Where do we get the all-night prayer meeting? Let the preacher preach till about one or two o'clock in the morning like he used to do, he'd be preaching to empty seats, they got to go home and see We Love Susie or somebody on certain television cast. Now, that's the truth! Why? "Where your treasures is, there your heart is also." Our treasures ought to be in the Word! The Arizona people are prospectors, you ought to go digging a while, see, see what's for you.

L-49 But there stood Samson, defeated, stripped by a woman. All of his powers was taken from him because he surrendered himself and gave away his secret to a woman.

L-50   Now, as soon as we got big enough that we could get off the corner and get off the little mission somewhere, we're trying to build churches that's bigger than the next fellow. We want to outshine the Methodist, the Presbyterian, Baptist. That's not your purpose! That's not why you are what you are. God already had that. He didn't raise you up for that. He raised you as an example that He might place His power in you, to show forth His glory.

L-51 But just let a few Rickys get into it, and they'll twist it around and go out after the flowerly things of the earth. Most all congregations wants some little boy for their pastor, that's got cute curly hair, and you think that he knows more about It than anybody else. But let your body get sick once, and you don't want one of these little doctors that just got out of school, if you're going to have an operation and have your heart operated on, you want an old man that's gray-headed, that's had some experience. What the church needs tonight is the old-fashioned Gospel that's been proved to be the power of God, not some of these little Rickies that our seminaries are hatching out. You know that. That's where we're at tonight, that's the conditions we're in. You have no business going into such a mess, anyhow. You started falling right there, and you've never come back, and you won't as long as you keep on going.

L-52   Did you ever think, while those Philistines was wondering about Samson, did you ever think what was going through Samson's mind? What do you think was going through that man's mind? I believe he was thinking, while he was there, yet total blind, never to have his sight again, he was thinking about all the great victories that God had give him. There he was, thinking of the days that was, what they used to do.

L-53 And that's just about the way man is, as I said here sometime ago. Man is always thinking back what God did, and looking forward to what God will do, but ignoring what God is doing. See? Look what He's doing now! We know what He has done. And He's sending to us and trying to stir us up again, trying to bring us back to the path to His Word, and proving It by His vindicated Word. And we just sit, sleep, go home, say, "What did he say? I hate to go hear them carry on so long."


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