<TITLE>19. Par 186-194</TITLE>L-186 But when he did, standing up there, and I see him standing there, he said, "What's the matter here?" Said, "I..." Said, "Here's the example." Said, "Saint Paul went into a city, and he had one convert. He went back, a year later, what did he, happen? He had thirty with that one." Said, "I go into a city, have thirty thousand converts in six weeks. I come back a year later and can't find thirty. What's the matter?" He said, "It's you lazy preachers." Said, "You take your decision cards, and set with your feet up on the desk somewhere, and call them up on the phone." And went ahead. I admired the man for his courage.

L-187   I hate to see a sissy, some denominational puppet. I--I like a man, a God-sent man that stands on his convictions, regardless. When he's proven wrong, admit it, and come back and start over again. That's right.

L-188 And he stood there and talked like that. And I thought. I was setting with Dr. Mordecai Hamm, to where, he's a personal friend of mine, Baptist brother. And I've knowed him, oh, for years and years and years, and we've associated together. And he and I were setting at the table, together. I come to his home. We went down together. We set there.

L-189 I thought, "Oh, my!" How? Not to interrupt or say anything about the great evangelist. But I thought, "Billy, which one of the ministers at Antioch, when Paul went into Antioch and got his one convert, which minister there took that convert, and into his offices, private, and fed him and talked to him?" There wasn't any. Why? Paul taken him so far beyond the things of the world, oh, till God was rooted and grounded into his heart. That apostle never let that one soul go, till he was really rooted and grounded in Christ.

L-190   And, today, what do we do? We bring these little old girls up, and men and women, belong in the churches, and they make a decision, in the hour of decision, and things like that. Bring them in, and send them right back out, to like that. And what? They haven't got nowhere, anyhow. They had nothing but a little emotional work-up, by the Word. It'll actually do that. See? It'll do that. It'll make an emotion. That's what happened to Pentecost. It went under emotion. What's happened to all of it!

L-191   Evangelism, it's a net that goes forth. Jesus said, "Cast into the sea." And when he brought forth, it had turtles, terrapins, snakes, frogs, and everything else in it. But remember, they was that from the start. There was fish in there, too. Just our business to seine. God's business to say who is fish and who is not. See? Why wouldn't them? If they was taken just as far into the Kingdom of God, them thirty thousand, as Paul's one was, when he come back he'd have four hundred and thirty thousand. See? Because their heart would be so on fire.

L-192   Like little Brother Crow said last night. I admired his--his--his courage. I admired his stand, to stand under his conviction. When the Light shines, there he stands. You'll never jerk him in any of these systems, if he stays the way he is, and then going on like that. How I admire a man of that type! Yes, sir.

L-193 Let anybody say if I look like a weather vane. I'd rather look like a weather vane, for God, than some painted-up Mardi Gras for the Devil. You got to look, for something, anyhow. That's exactly right. There you are. But, see, it's the system things that we're living in and working with today. There you are. The whole thing has become corrupt, plumb to the core.

L-194   Now we've got our Ricky up there. Now what you going to do with him? See? They're just flying in like--like blackbirds. Exactly right. The whole cabinet, the whole thing, everything, millions-of-dollar system. That's what you want. That's what the church wants. That's the reason you come in. It's so easy now to get into the churches. Oh, my! The Pentecostals, all you have to do is shake a little bit, jump a little bit, or say you got some kind of a testimony. Anybody can testify.


<A HREF="P20">Next Page</A>