<TITLE>17. Par 123-132</TITLE>L-123 I said, "Did you know the blessed virgin Mary had to receive the Holy Ghost and speak in tongues, and dance in the Spirit, the same way they did, before God would receive her? You call her the mother of God."
She said, "That's nonsense."
I said, "Just a minute. I..."
"I'm not supposed to look in the Bible."

L-124 I said, "Then how you going to know what is Truth or not?"
She said, "I take my church's word."

L-125 I said, "This is God's Word. Here It is right here. I challenge you to look at It. And Mary was with them up there in the upper room, and received the baptism of the Holy Ghost like the rest of them did. And you call her the mother of God." I said, "Then call that, 'Bunch of trash; backwash'?" I said, "Don't worry. You won't be There. You don't have much to worry about, if that's all you got to worry about. You better worry about your own sinful soul, girl." And I let her go.

L-126   Now think of all this, a simple. God makes it so simple.
How could Ahab, how could Jezebel, how could those people who thought that Elijah was a witch, thought he was a spiritualist? Even Ahab said, "Here is the one that's caused all this trouble to Israel."
He said, "You're the one has troubled Israel."

L-127 How could that nation think, that, to reject the message of a fuzzy-faced man like that, no priestly garments on, and so forth, would be the condemnation of it?
How could Egypt, the rule the world, pharaohs, and its class and dignity? The world has never come to that place again, in science and so forth. How could they think, to reject an old prophet of eighty years old, with whiskers hanging down, gray hair, stomping out of there, a fugitive? And come out there with a message, "You'll either let them go, or God will destroy the nation." How could Pharaoh? "You'll obey me, Pharaoh."

L-128   Pharaoh said, "Obey?" Oh, him, Pharaoh! And an old man, "Some old crank," they thought, "turn a guy down like that, destroy a nation?" But it did it. Oh, my!
Let's stop, pause a few minutes and have a prayer, and think. What day are we living in? Where we at? Another modern, scientific age. We better think. Maybe, you stop, people stop and pray a little while, and think a little bit, you'd feel better after you get through doing it. That's right.

L-129 A Christian is not a tool, or some kind of a mechanical wrench to a great big religious regime. That's right. A Christian is not some kind of tool that keeps a religious organization moving. A Christian, that is not a Christian. A Christian is to be Christ-like. And a Christian cannot be a Christian until Christ comes into the man, the Life of Christ in him. Then it produces the Life that Christ lived, and you do the things that Christ did.

L-130 What am I talking about? Personal relationship to Christ. What is it? Is your life worthy of the Gospel?
Now I'm trying to lay that background there, to show you that, men and women who were renown women, men.

L-131   The Bible said. Did you notice? Last Sunday night, something I forgot to put in, Genesis the 6th chapter and the 4th verse. "Those men who taken to them women, for wives, were men of old, renown." Renown men, predicted to come again. "Like it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the Coming of the Son of man." "Renown men taking women," not wives, "women; going after strange flesh."

L-132 Look in England, a couple weeks ago. Look in the United States. Look everywhere, it's full of prostitution. Great men, great, high offices, bringing disgrace upon the nation, running after women. That great man there in England, some kind of a warlord, like, why, did you notice, he had a pretty wife. Her picture was there, along. Look at that Russian prostitute, but she was all sexy dressed, and throwed herself out there, to display her female flesh. And the man fell for it.


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