<TITLE>14. Par 130-140</TITLE>L-130 Christianity is: go after the lost, go get that brother, go do something about it. Can we stand and fold our hands, even if we claim that we are saved, and see men and women dying on every hand? And the streets, full of women going to churches, with shorts and--and painted faces, and--and walking up-and-down the street, with cigarettes in their hands; and--and paint all over their face, it looks like foxes or wolves, or something. And men walking up-and-down the street, joining churches, and things like that. And call that Christianity, and hold your peace?

L-131   What would Saint Paul do if he walked in Tucson? Now, I say they'd have him in jail 'fore morning. That's right. Why? His soul would burn for God till he couldn't keep from doing it. Sure. But we join church. You see, our traditions has become a stink in the face of God.

L-132 What we need today is a prophet arise on the scene with "THUS SAITH THE LORD" and strip those things to the bottom and say that they've become a stink. Our denominations has growed. Our churches are big, and they're finer than they ever was. We'd be a lot better off with a tin pan, standing on the alley again, with a guitar, out there beating a drum, or something other, with the real pentecostal Fire burning in our souls, than to set in the great pews that we're setting in today, dying. The world dying, under our feet. Yes, sir.

L-133   God has a pardon, and that pardon is only through Jesus Christ; education, tradition, denominational, scientific, nothing will ever take its place. It's under that Blood. It's under the tradition... not the tradition, but under the Blood of Jesus Christ, God's provided way for sinners, the only way that we can ever meet.

L-134 I tell you, you take a Methodist, take a Baptist, and a Presbyterian, and a Lutheran, and a Pentecostal, and let each one come under that Blood, they're brothers. There's no fussing about them then. No, sir. They are brothers. They see everything alike. But you let a Methodist get to fussing with a Baptist, on the order of baptism; let a Oneness fuss with a Trinity, or Trinity with the Oneness, and whatever more, watch the fuss and hair raise. But let them both come under the cross, and watch what takes place.
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And shall be till I die.
Then in a nobler, sweeter song,
I'll sing this power to save,
When this poor lisping, stammering tongue
Lies silent in the grave.

L-135   I give testimony, tonight, that the Blood of Jesus Christ makes a Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, whatever he is, my brother. Yes, sir. There is something in fellow, because his spirit is--is a brother. He isn't a fusser and--and something other. It's... He's a brother in Christ. He believes every Word that's in that Bible.

L-136 How can the Holy Spirit, Who wrote the Bible, deny it? How can the Holy Spirit living in a man, say, "Oh, that was for the disciples, that"?
Jesus said, "Whosoever will."

L-137 Peter said, "The promise is unto you, and to your children, them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." The Holy Ghost was for whomever God called.

L-138 Here He said, "Those who He predestinated, He foreknew." He ordained, and they accepted.

L-139 "No man can come to Me," said Jesus, "except the Father draws him. And all that the Father has given Me will come to Me."

L-140   Do we come in a worked-up emotion? Do we come to join the church? Do we come because we don't want to go to hell? Or, do we come because we love God, that, "Gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should have everlasting Life"? Do we come because it's a love sacrifice that God give to us, that we might display, display it?


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