<TITLE>14. Par 153-165</TITLE>L-153   A woman here, not long ago in Louisville, Kentucky. She had a little baby, and she was going around, little boy about two years old, it was. She had him in her arms, and she'd pick up little things. She'd say, "Look, honey, look." And the little kid would just set and stare. She'd walk over to something else, say, "Darling, look at this." And the people in the store begin to watch her. She begin to get hysterical. And so she picked up a little rattle, which ought to attract a little boy like that. Said, "Look, honey. Look, look, look, honey. Look, darling, look." And the little boy just stared.

L-154 And she fell over on the counters. The people come over to her and picked her up, to find out what was the matter. She said, "My little boy," she said, "he just started staring in space." And said, "I took him to the doctor, and the doctor says he's better. But the things that should attract a little boy like him doesn't attract him anymore. He just seems to be blind to it."

L-155   That's something like the church today. God has shook every kind of gift before the church, that He promised to shake, and still we stare in space. See? "Sirs, we would... Sir, Master, we would desire a sign from Thee." See? "Master, we would desire this." When, He's done everything, in the Bible, He promised to do. We're at the end time.

L-156 And the first thing you know, you're going to find out, you say, "Well, isn't it written that we should have a Rapture?"

L-157 And it'll be like it was by John the Baptist. They said, "Isn't it written in the Scripture that there should be, first, there would be Elias come?"
He said, "Elias has already come and you didn't know it."

L-158 One of these days, when Tribulation sets, you'll say, "Wasn't there to be a Rapture first?"

L-159 And it'll be, "It's already past, and you knew nothing about it." See? It'll come like a thief in the night.

L-160 I tell you, it's time for believers to trim their lamps, get on their toes. The calling time is at hand. We should remember that.

L-161   Solomon, they believed him, all the people, with one heart and one accord, and no wonder the message went everywhere.

L-162 But, today, if God sends something, if it strikes a--a certain denomination, church, the others won't have nothing to do with it. No, sir. If it strikes the Baptists, don't look for the Methodists to do anything. If it strikes the Pentecost, look for both of them to stay out, 'cause they'll sure do it. So there you are. Depends on where it's from. It's got to come through their circle or it is no good.

L-163 That's the same thing they thought when God sent Jesus, that He would have to send Him through the Pharisees, or the Sadducees, or some of them. And He sent Him to all of them, through none of them. That's the way God does. He just... He, see, He never come to any of them. He come, called them a bunch of snakes in the grass. That's right.

L-164   And so we find out that God does things in His Own way. And we can't cut and dry anything, and say, "This is my part, and you have no business. You don't see through my glasses, you're not looking." No. God has got the glass for us to see through, that's the Holy Spirit. Then it sees the Word of God and believes It, and loves and fellowships, and the blanket is far enough for the neighbor. And you know what I mean.

L-165 The world is dying for a little love, and somebody to care for them. That's right. They seen so much of this cold, stiff, starchy stuff. But, I tell you, this old-time case of salvation will make a--a calico dress and a silk dress put their arms around one another. It'll make a tuxedo and a pair of overalls call one another "brother." It sure will. It'll take the starch right out of you, when you really get Christ in your life, in the right way. Certainly will.


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