<TITLE>21. Par 205-216</TITLE>L-205   Was talking to an old man the other day. A little boy come into a store, there in Tucson where I was. Went in to buy some--some Special K for breakfast. There was a little boy standing there, buying cigarettes. Said, "Who is these for, your mother?"
Said, "No. It's for that boy setting there."
Said, "Is he old enough?"
He said "Yes."

L-206 I said to the grocery man, I said, "He never gets old enough." See? But you...

L-207 The--the people begin think that's all right. Smoking is popularity. And the churches are practicing just drinking conservative, just modern drinking. Oh, for goodness' sakes! What do you... Where do you get that stuff? It's out of a system, not from God's Word. "He that even gives his neighbor a strong drink." See? Sure, it is. It's--it's a ruin, rake of our nation, Hollywood glamour. And there's where we've got to, in such a mess as that. Here we are in that kind of a shape.

L-208   This old man said to me, he said, "Well," said, "I feel sorry for him." Said, "It's kind of hard, from--from... for it, for us to quit. Is it hard? Wouldn't it be hard for you to quit?"
I said, "I never started."

L-209 He said, "Oh, you don't smoke." Said, "I admire you, fellow." He was about seventy years old.
I said, "Thank you."
He said, "Like whiskey, the same way."
And I said, "I don't drink."

L-210 He said, "Well, I admire that." Said, "I think it's a... If a man wants to come home, drink a glass of beer," said, "it's all right. But when they take these women, and they're out there on the streets, and carrying on, drunk, and running around... Her husband gets to work, then they got the car, and out and gone."

L-211 I said, "They oughtn't never let a woman behind a wheel." Boy, if I was there, she wouldn't do it, if I had anything to say about it.

L-212   They say the women is the most safest drivers. I'm an international traveler. Me and my son, crossing this nation, put a book up in the--in the car. And every time a boo-boo was called, pulled on the road, we marked it down, "man" or "woman." And out of three hundred, there were two hundred and eight-one of them caused by women; nineteen of them by men. That's exact. Yet, she's set there and push her hair up. And she turn out like this, and make a left's right, and everything. But, oh, course, the police ain't going to say that. They got them on a police force. What a disgrace!

L-213   When a woman gets from behind the table in the kitchen, in the house, taking care of her own little ministry God give her, her babies, she's out of the will of God.

L-214 Put her in a pulpit, she's out of the will of God. There's no Scripture for a woman preacher. I want some man to stand and tell me that, look me in the face. There's no such a thing. That, Pentecost is the grassroots of that stuff. Never was! Adam was first formed, and then Eve. Adam was not deceived. But, yet, you do it. And you see where you got yourself? Way out here on a limb, that, you can't come back on now. But there you go. That's it. That's the world. That's what you want. That's what you want. That's what you got. See?

L-215   But to those who look for a Kingdom Whose Builder and Maker of God, we receive a Kingdom.

L-216 We're not looking for a denomination. We're not look-... Though, those who love God, we're not looking for some denominational genius. We're not looking for some great big mathematician can stand up here and tell us how to make more numbers, and so forth, and go out in the streets and work yourself to death to bring in members. What you got? You're bringing more pigs to the pen. That's all. And what's it getting when it get there? Slop. Exactly.
God borns them into a Kingdom, Above. That's exactly right.


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