<TITLE>08. Par 70-81</TITLE>L-70   What a lesson that ought to be to mothers! A kid will usually listen to his mama.

L-71 And he went to his, sent to his mother's god, Baal-zebub, over to Ekron, where his statue was, his monument. And said, "Go consult the priests over there, and let them consult their statue of Baal-zebub, whether I will recover of this sickness that I have, or not."

L-72   But you know, that man, really, could you imagine? A people who was supposed to be a god-fearing people, would let such a man rule over them, is because a lukewarm condition. It was the condition that the church had got into, that put such a person in power, or permitted it. I don't think times have changed very much; they still seem to be a whole lot the same way. And let this man rule, have the say-so over the country, that would consult some statue of some pagan idea about his condition.

L-73 And then, you know, but behind all of it, no matter how much it seems that God has turned His face from the people, He does that sometime to see what kind of an attitude you take. Every son that cometh to God has got to be tried and chastened.

L-74   And then there is a little spot in a man, or woman, when they're born of the Spirit of God, that's Eternal.

L-75 And you'll get into a place sometime to where every... Everything that's human about you, in reasoning, the devil can reason it away from you. But when it all breaks away, then, if that Eternal Life isn't there, you will fall also, because you can reason yourself away from God.

L-76 But a man that claims to be a Christian, has no right in the pulpit, or has no right in the office, a leader anywhere, until first he has climbed them steps into a place to where he is born of the Spirit of God, filled with the Holy Ghost, in such a way that nobody can explain it away from him.

L-77   God, when He sent Moses down to Egypt, to deliver the people, first He took him on the back side of the desert, and took all the theology he had in him out, in forty years, and then appeared to him. He knowed more about God, in five minutes, in the Presence of that burning bush, than he knowed in the forty years of learning that he got.

L-78 That's what the church needs tonight, is another burning-bush experience, where slick-tongued people... Where, the Scripture says that, "The two spirits in the last days will be so close, it'd deceive the very elected if possible."

L-79   A man ought to first get on that sacred ground with God; where all the theologians, all the doctors of divinity, all the reasonings, all the atheists, nothing else can ever explain that away from him. He was there when God come, and he knows what took place. You can't reason it out of him; he was there when it happened. That's the kind of man we need today in the government, in the church, and anywhere else, in the times like this. For leadership, we need a man that's filled with the Holy Ghost.

L-80 That's what the church needs today; not a theologian, but a Spirit-filled, born-again man, full of the Holy Ghost. I tell you, if we had more of that, the church would look a little different than it does in the present time. Things would be different if we just had more man filled with God's Spirit, not going after traditions of the elders, and so forth.

L-81   Now we find that this fellow sent up there to get this information from--from the--from the god of Ekron, Baal-zebub.


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