<TITLE>15. Par 141-148</TITLE>L-141 You know, I'm afraid the church has pulled their soul through too many old love-story magazines instead of God's Word. That's what's the matter. They can tell you more about who is the next movie star coming up, than tell you about the operation of the Holy Spirit. Amen. That's right. If we put more time to staying on Tuesday night and Wednesday night, and going to church to prayer meeting, instead of staying home watching television on "Who Loves Suzie" or something like that, and staying away from church, we'd know more about our Bible and know what we're supposed to have in this day. Right. That's right. But, you see, we--we, we've got away. God has give us churches and--and fine pastors, and Spirit-filled people. And--and we just... We so grossed in our souls, and fattened and fed, till we just don't care for It no more. Oh, my! We need a--we need a shaking. We need something to happen to us. Well, maybe we got ashamed.

L-142   Now, I come into this Pentecostal people kind of late. I'm one born out of season. But I remember of reading the history of it, the Azusa Street. And remember when they used to have these great meetings, they'd pray all night. And your fathers, the--the old-timers in the work, and they would pray all night. And they would fast for days, and they would wait on God until God answered. Today, we can't stay at the altar five minutes. Something is wrong. What's the matter?

L-143 I used to--to go around with an old Methodist circuit rider. He would sing a little song for me.
We let down the bars, we let down the bars,
We compromised with sin.
We let down the bars, the sheep got out,
But how did the goats get in?

L-144 We let down the bars. That's what happened. We compromised. And we--we got to get away from that, the old Azusa Street meeting, the old-fashion, pentecostal religion, backwoods, sky-blue, gun-barrel-straight, sin-killing religion. Brother, they didn't whitewash. It washed white. It done something to people. And, today, when we got away from that, we become loose. We become like the rest of the world. It's too bad.

L-145   And, today, the most of the people don't want a man that'll stand and tell the Truth about it. They want some little Ricky with a Hollywood haircut, and perfume all over, and walk right up here and talk about some theology that he learned off in some cemetery, or--or seminary. Excuse me. It's all the same place, the home of corpses, so then we--we find that everywhere. They want something like that. They don't want the old-fashion Gospel handed out in the power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost anymore. There is something wrong.

L-146 We need a testimony meeting, a great thing to happen. We need a prayer meeting. We need a digging down, tearing up. It's true. We need Christ back in our midst, know the Bible. We're just drifting looser and looser, all the time. We need to come back to the original foundation, come back to the place, the rock that we was hewed from, and start over again.

L-147   Now, this little old woman, she knowed where she was standing. There was nothing going to stop her. Yes, sir. She had the testimony. She had seen it, and she was looking for it. And she knowed the Scripture, and she knowed that was what it was. And as soon as it happened, flashed across her path, her eyes flew open, and she knew it. Nothing going to stop her. Whether it's traditions or anything, not going to stop her. Right. She's going to say it, anyhow.

L-148 Oh, my, for people like that! Give us a half a dozen on fire like that, I'm telling you, Tucson will be a different place in a few days. Each one of you want that in your congregation, don't you? Wouldn't you? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Yes, sir. Oh, my! Sure, that's what we want, somebody on fire. We kind of got ashamed of it, somehow. We got to a place, we just getting away from the old-fashion, Spirit-filled Life that really kept us clean.


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