<TITLE>19. Par 199-208</TITLE>L-199 Look. Are these things true? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] If it isn't true, then what are we doing here? What are we claiming, something, that we become hypocrites? What are we claiming, to the world, the things that--that it even isn't so? Why, we're found false witnesses, and we oughtn't even be permitted to live. "Then if there is no resurrection of the dead, and Christ is not risen from the dead, then eat, drink, and be merry." You all go on out and live like the rest of the slop, with the hogs, you see, if there's no resurrection. If there's no coming of Christ, if there... if--if He isn't here, and His Words are not true, if one iota is wrong, then I can't have confidence in any of It. It's all got to be written, all got to be right.

L-200   This is the hour, where Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man." Look, look at Sodom, just a moment, as closing. In Sodom, before, the world was burned, the Gentile world was burned. Now, this time, it's going to be burned again. See? No more water; fire, this time. "As it was in the days of Sodom." Now, look at the--the condition of the world today, just like Sodom, just dressing the same way, everything. I'm telling you. It's disgraceful. And look at the world, just wade in sin.

L-201 Look, even, it's got into the church. And the old-fashion Christian, we don't see them, hardly, no more. And our-our women, all cut off their hair, wearing makeup, wear shorts, and--and everything, just immorally, and not knowing that you're going to be asked at that Day to answer for adultery. "Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already." You might be pure, virtuously, like that. But the way you've done, and sinners look upon you, wrong way. You presented yourself, then you're guilty. You're guilty. Jesus said so. Look at even our Pentecostal women.

L-202 And look at our ministers, many of them let down, afraid to say anything against it, afraid that the denominational organization will put them out.

L-203 I'd rather lay on my stomach, and drink branch water and eat soda crackers, and preach that Word and tell the Truth, yes, sir, than to belong to everything there is. Yes, sir.

L-204   Oh, we need deepness of sincerity. We need something back. We don't need so much showmanship. We need the Holy Spirit living among us, to where men can say, "Who can accuse me of sin?" Sin is unbelief.

L-205 If the Scriptures said that Jesus would do such-and-such, He said, "Which one of you can condemn Me, or accuse Me of sin?"

L-206 Now, there's only one sin, that's unbelief. That's, faith or unbelief. "He that believeth not is condemned already." You can smoke, drink, and do these things because you don't believe. But if you do believe, you'll do the otherwise. See? It's because either faith or unbelief is in you.

L-207   Now, look. Set quiet just for a minute. Now, here's a great big statement. I'm looking over this audience, first. I'm looking around.

L-208 And I--I--I know one person that I can see out there, that I--I don't know that I know him. It's a man that--that I stopped the other day. I didn't know. A bus was trying to make a left turn, and people turning. I thought, "That fellow is trying to get around, left." I stopped, motioned him on around. And there's a bus driver setting here. And that's... and here. I met him over at Furr's restaurant today, or cafeteria, and he told me he was the man. Said his wife had been healed in one of the meetings somewhere with a kidney trouble, floating kidneys or something, and called out, in the meeting. See? I never... God in Heaven knows I never seen the woman in my life. I never seen her. And here's the man. I guess, his wife, I believe she's here somewhere, will be a testimony. See? And things, it just goes on and on. See?
And I don't see anyone that I actually know.


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