<TITLE>19. Par 184-194</TITLE>L-184 The seventy turned and went away. What would you have done? Now, think of it. When, a Man that you had seen do the very signs of Messiah, and knowed that the Messiah was coming. And He had prophesied all this to happen, even to John and them. And He had expressed it, thoroughly. And then you followed Him and seen the great sign of a Messiah, proving that none of the pastors could withstand the Message, at all. And then, all at once, He comes around and teaches something that's exactly the Word of God, but contrary to your way you been taught. Then, would you hold with your tradition? Would you go with the seventy? Oh, the Scripture, clear-cut Word! Would you go with the seventy?

L-185 Or--or, can you see now your identification, where you would stand? Now think deeply, sincerely. Where would you stand now, with your present condition? Where, what group would you be identified in, there? Or, could you identify yourself? Just quickly now. Could you identify yourself with that?

L-186   I'm going to speak to the kids here, the teen-agers. Could you identify yourself today, teen-ager, as a professed believer, as the rich young ruler, the Elvis Presley type that love the pleasures of the world more than you love to follow Christ? Would you identify yourself with this present-day group, and, say, well, like this Mr. Presley? As I understand, He's a Pentecostal. And a pentecostal, to get out and act like that, he's just only Pentecostal by name. To me, it's another Judas.

L-187 Pat Boone and those people who claim to be religious, and them rock-and-rolls and twisting, and vulgarity of the world, and then claim Christianity. Why, it's a disgrace. It's worse than the bootlegger. It's worse than--than the prostitute on the street. God would respect a prostitute better than that.

L-188 Ernie Ford and them stand up all night, these shindigs and everything, and carry on, with arms around women, them sexy and everything, and then come out and sing hymns. That's when you've sold your birthrights. How can you identify yourself?

L-189   That young teen-ager had a... He was a rich man. He had an opportunity. He is, may have been, a Christian businessman, too. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... church.

L-190 Now, teen-ager, what would you do about that? When, you try to act like Marilyn Monroe or some of them others, or some of the women like the first lady of the land, with these here all kind of carrying on, and this cutting the hair, and--and manicuring on the face, and these tight, sexy dresses. And--and you men, letting them do it!

L-191 And you pastors, out the audacity to rebuke it from the pulpit, too! Right. Right. That's right. Yeah. That's right. [Congregation applauds--Ed.] Now, just a minute. Listen. That's right.

L-192   But many times you've got God-given pastors that will rebuke it, and you still won't line with the Word. Now let's--let's find it. Can't go the other way, too. [Congregation applauds--Ed.] That's right. What am I laying before you? "Oh," say, "they..." I know better than that. I've passed through, myself, Phoenix, for the last fifteen years, and it still looks the same as it always did, only getting worse. So don't lay it all onto the pastor. Uh-huh. Let's just say we're all guilty, and stand up there and look at ourself in the glass. Yeah.

L-193 Teen-ager, what about that? You love the praises of them people more than you love the--the invitation you're give, to mold your character into the image of the Son of God? What about it? How can we do it? Oh, my! Can you see yourself identified, popular-loving? How about...

L-194   Now, I'm coming down home just a little closer now. How about you Pentecostals that really know better? That's right. You know better than that. You know better.


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