<TITLE>12. Par 130-145</TITLE>L-130 But a genuine born-again pedigreed Christian from the Book of Acts, knows exactly where he stands. He is born of the Spirit, and here is his pedigree. He come from the branch of God. It'll produce the same thing each time.
131 No wonder, the church is more prettier. But what's the matter? It's run out of Spirit. It's bred itself out, with the world. Let the women wear shorts. Play the piano, let them wear make-up. Let the man get married four or five times, and hold their place, position. All these forms of things that they go through, just exactly what the Scripture said. She is just as much defeated as Samson was. Just exactly. Yes, sir.

L-132   Oh, as Samson thought! I may... I don't want to hold you too long; I'll skip some of these texts here. As Samson must have stood there and thought of his error, and where he could be!

L-133 Remember Israel. Can I, will you pardon me a minute, to go back to Israel? Do you know what, what did they do those forty years when they made their organization out there? Instead of going on through, led by the Pillar of Fire, the Angel of the Lord, which was Christ, instead of going on through and following Him. In about ten days, they'd a-been in the full promise. But you know what, "They wondered in the wilderness," the Bible said.

L-134   They come to Kadesh-barnea, which was the judgment seat, and there when the spies come back and talked about the land. They said, "We can't do it."

L-135 Caleb and Joshua said, "We are more than able to do it," for they was looking to God's promise, not what the circumstance was.

L-136 "We can't have a church without having an organization." Well, you don't see what God said. That's right.

L-137 What did they do? Did God bless them? Sure, sure. They wondered about. They married wives. They planted vineyards. And they had babies, and they increased. And they done good in the wilderness. That's right. But they still wasn't in full blessing.

L-138   So when all these who made this great big group of organization, "old fighters" it was called, all right, God let them stay there till every one of them died. And then He started with the new generation, under the leadership of Joshua, who believed the Word, amen, and he took them to the promised land.

L-139 O God, may this young generation of Pentecostals get the--get the vision. See, they went on to the promised land. We ought to be where we have all kinds of the gifts of God.

L-140 We did speak with tongues. That's right. That's fine. Nothing against that. Moses crossed the Red Sea; the enemy was killed behind him. We--we--we appreciate that. But that's still not all of it.

L-141 How little did your fathers and mothers think when they was standing out there and shooting pistols through the windows at them, and them dancing in the Spirit, that their children would ever come to this? But it did.

L-142 But there is a new generation coming on now. Samson's hair has growed out. See?

L-143   Watch! Don't never let Delilah ever weave you back into something like that. Uh-huh. Stay away from it. That's the thing that's cursed you. You was raised up to condemn it. And I've tried my best to do it, though I've stood alone. But I've tried my best to stand to the Commandments of God. I see the church stand there, stripped of the power of God, stripped of the blessings, stripped of the gifts.

L-144 And God will pour His gift down. They say they say, "That's mind reading, mental telepathy," when they ought to be embracing It. See? "Well, he is over at the Oneness now. No, that's, that may be, for, oh, they were this, that, or the other." See? Oh, if you'd only knowed your day! Don't let It pass you. This is the hour, uniting in Christ. Notice.

L-145   Samson standing there, thinking of his error, the things that he had done. Now do you realize what caused him to be that way? The enemy put his eyes out.


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