<TITLE>07. Par 65-78</TITLE>L-65   I guess, while he was standing there, there was some of them remembered that night at Gaza, how that the man could pick up the gates of Gaza, lay them upon his shoulders, when they tried to fence him in.

L-66 You can't fence the anointing of God in. No organization can hold it. God saves those who He has called. "All the Father has given me will come."

L-67 Well, they thought they had him fenced in. And he picked up the gates and put them upon his shoulders, and walked away, went up the top of the hill and sat down. Big brass gates that would weigh up to tons, and a--a little man pull them out of the rocks, fold them up and lay them on his shoulder, and walk up the hill with them; when anything that stood in the way of God.

L-68   Many of them in that drunken brawl could remember that of Samson. But what was the matter today, he didn't? There stood Samson, but the Spirit of the Lord didn't come on him no more. He wasn't anointed. He had been stripped of this power, by a woman that lured him away from the Commandments of the Lord.

L-69 I wonder, today, if that isn't something like our churches. See? Woman, in the Bible, represents "church." And wonder if we haven't listened to the lure of other denominations, tried to educate our ministers into a--a Bachelor of Arts degree, that our congregation could say, "Our pastor has a B.A., D.D., or L.D." Wonder if we haven't went off on some great wild tantrum, to try to build a church that's a little better than the Methodist or the Presbyterian? We would be better off in some mission, with the Spirit of God upon us, than we would be in this condition. Wonder if we haven't proselyted and pulled from one to the other, to try to make our organizations grow? And we've, got great structure, but where is the Spirit of the Lord?

L-70   There he stood, stripped by a woman. What must have went through that man's mind as he stood there? He had time to think it over.

L-71 I hope the church gets that much time. Which is more to you, a million more or a deeper blessing of God in your soul? We have searched...

L-72 And could have many more things that I have jotted here, about those lords and what Samson did, what they were thinking.

L-73 Now let's go down to Samson. And what do you think was going through his mind, of the many victories that he had had, the many great things that he had done when the Spirit of the Lord was on him? But he was conscious that he had every muscle, but the Spirit of the Lord was missing.

L-74 Let me tell you something, church. Don't try to join the most fancy church, the most eloquent bunch. You stay with Christ, where the Spirit of the Lord is.

L-75   Then he must have thought of the great victories that God had give him, and of the times that when his eyes were open, that he could see the promises of God. But now, since he has been caught up into this thing, his eyes has been put out.

L-76 So many people, today, gets caught away in mental illusions, never think to search the Scripture, to see whether it's right or not. Others try to say, "It doesn't make any difference."

L-77 Paul, in Acts 19, thought it made a difference. And he said, "If an Angel from Heaven preached any other thing, let Him be accursed." See? See? It does make a difference.

L-78   Now we see Samson standing there, how he is thinking of the things that he once did with the Kingdom of God. And of how God... He had failed God, and he had failed God's people. Yes, sir. Now he is a prisoner of the very nation that God raised him up to destroy.


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