<TITLE>08. Par 70-76</TITLE>L-70   Oh, we talk about people coming in and receiving the Holy Ghost, and things like that. And I've... Certainly, I appreciate that. I do appreciate it. But looky here what we've done, friends. We've built our denominations upon some evidence, like we take speaking in tongues. I believe in speaking in tongues, sure, but everything speaks in tongues hasn't got the Holy Ghost. I'm a missionary. I've seen witches speak in tongues and interpret, and give the right interpretation to it, and drink blood out of a human skull, and call on the Devil. Right. Get back to the Word of God where you belong. Get away from these things. A life is what tells in human being, the Life of Christ. How can you be of Christ and hold to these forms? Then see where we've got to?

L-71 The Pentecostal church, when it started, fifty years ago, and the Holy Ghost begin to fall and the people received the gift of speaking in tongues, then you begin to take everything into it, denominating this, and that, and the other. And look where you're at today, till the whole thing is rotten. That's right. The whole system is corrupt, and she's just falling apart with the rest of the world. Everything has to do it.
"But we receive a Kingdom that cannot be moved."

L-72   Now, remember, our politics has gone out after the world. Our churches has gone out after the world. All is polluted, our days, today.

L-73 When, we used to be, long time ago, when I can just remember, when our old Baptist church down there in the state of Kentucky, when they had them old-fashion women and men setting around there, with those. Preacher, last night, Brother Crow, talking about those ladies with the bonnets on. And--and they used to, what they call, get sanctified. Or, and they'd get out there and shout, and--and the--the hairpins would fall out of their hair when they cried, and--and walked up-and-down those aisles, praising God. Why, brother, them people had enough religion to make the Pentecostal day feel ashamed of itself. And, then, right. That was Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians. Right.

L-74   And then you call the Kentuckians an--an illiterate bunch. You let some Kentuckian, old-fashion mother, see her girl come out on the street, back there in them mountains, with a little pair of shorts on, like you and grandma and the rest of you wear. Let her come in, of a morning, and her clothes half off of her, twisted up, and her manicure, lipsticks, or whatever it is, all over her face, been out with some little Ricky all night long, in a hot rod, running around, come in. She would blister her, one of them hickory limbs, she couldn't get up out of the bed for six months.

L-75 Then you call yourself Pentecostal? Look at the day that we're living in. And preachers are too scared to say something about it in the pulpit, afraid they'll be put out of their organization. Right. Right. We need a "back to the Word of God." Back to not some emotion, some talk of "back to the Word," but I mean the heart and soul, in the individual, back to the Word of God. Certainly. What did you do? Why they afraid to say it? You get to speaking about it, your organization will oust you out. That's right.

L-76   I just read a piece that somebody give me, here in the paper. It's, it come from Memphis, Tennessee. It's called, The Tony Fontane Story. If you want to see a burlesque advertisement, look at that in the paper, supposed to be Pentecost. It's sponsored by the Assemblies of God, one of the biggest organizations of the Pentecost. Take a look at it. I'll leave it here, a bobbed-haired Jezebel-looking woman and some Frenchman there. You call that conversion? Why, it's emotion. There's nothing to it towards conversion. A--a Spirit of God will clean a man or a woman up, and make them different than what they was. Right. But what have we got? We got Hollywood, moved into Pentecost. What is it? Because of their educational programs, and the thing.


<A HREF="P9">Next Page</A>