<TITLE>10. Par 117-131</TITLE>L-117 When you get glamour, God don't like glamour. Hollywood is full of glamour. Hollywood shines; the Gospel glows. There's a lot of difference between shining and glowing. Hollywood shines with lights and class, and the Gospel glows in humility. Quite a difference. See? See? Now, you must remember that, my brethren and my sisters. Don't--don't shine. Glow!

L-118   Now, we find, this young fellow, given this opportunity to do this. And he--and he... He turned it away because there was too much of a price to it.

L-119 And I--I think that's the same thing today. We, we don't want to, we don't want to admit now, we don't want to say that we don't, but our lives are proving it. That's proving it. That's exactly right.

L-120 But the--the Laodicean put Him out of the church that He was knocking on, see, trying to get back in. And Laodicea put Him out because that they--they were rich. They had need of nothing. They were just as--just as rich as they could be. And so they said, "We are rich. We have need of nothing."

L-121 And God said, "You are naked, poor, miserable, blind, don't know it." That's the trouble, when they don't know it.

L-122   If a man is out here on the street, in that condition, naked and blind, well, most anyone that had a human heart would go to that man, say, "Sir, you're naked. You're out here. You're, you're exposed. And come on in."

L-123 But if the man turned around, said, "Now, you tend to your own business." See? Now, what are you going to do for that fellow?

L-124 And here, when a church thinks that it's so--it's so clothed, in its... it is, in its self-righteousness, until you--you think... And you go to bring them the Word. You say, "That's contrary to our creed." What? You sold out, then, your birthrights. When, instead of being glamor, we ought to be glowing.

L-125   Instead of having five hundred or six hundred, ever what it is here at a breakfast... That's all right. I have nothing against it. I'm--I'm just here in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Instead of that, there ought to be a glowing among us, of the Holy Spirit. Maybe there's only a dozen, glowing in the beauty of the Lord, the Lord Jesus would be so upon us until the glow of the Lord would be in us.

L-126 But we want to shine, more members. See? The church has always counted membership. God counts character, not membership.

L-127 As I said this week, Eliezer sweated it out, trying to find character. And when he found Rebekah, then he had an awful time making her stand still till he could get her dressed.

L-128 That's the same thing it is with the church. We find the character in the Pentecostal church. But, to get her dressed, and you go to say something about it, then everybody rise up, "We won't have it no more. We won't have this." See? You find, when you got character to work on, but then you--you can't make them stand still long enough, bring them back to where they once fell from.

L-129   You, Pentecostal church, come right out of denominationalism. That's what God brought you out for, was to be His Church. What did you do? You turned right back around, went right back in the thing you come out of, "like a dog to its vomit, and a hog to its wallow." The people did the same thing. And now there's not much difference in you. See?

L-130 Now, I hope you don't think I'm trying to be mean or rude. I'm only sent here. My days may be few. I'm standing in the Name of the Lord Jesus, to tell you what's the Truth. You mark my Words, if they don't come to pass. You're trying to shine. Stop it. Glow.

L-131   Now, rich Laodicea church has done the same thing that the rich young ruler did, because the price was too great. He just couldn't accept the Word of the Lord, what for him to do. He would rather take his way with the glamor of the day, 'cause he had plenty of money, and he could go out in the societies of--of the--of the people and--and live up his time.


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