<TITLE>25. Par 240-253</TITLE>L-240 Remember the Angels which kept not their first estate, but left there in that prison house in darkness, where the world is walking today in that same prison, there is no repentance.

L-241   Remember a few years ago, I said, when I come down from Chicago, "Either America will receive it this year, or she won't receive it at all." See where she's gone? Yeah.

L-242 Now I wonder if the Third Pull could be? O God, may it be far from that! Is that what the Third Pull is for? Could that be? Oh, my! Think of it, friends. Think of it; I don't like to.

L-243 Jesus said, "This kind of hypocrisy..." If you want to put that down, Matthew 23, -seven. I--I got here, "read that," but you can see. "You blind Pharisees!" Let...

L-244   Have you got just a couple minutes different? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Let's see. Let's just turn to that, 'cause I said "read it." There was something there I want to read just before... Now I'll maybe cut something else out, but let--let's just get this just a minute. Matthew 23, just a minute, all right, and we're going to begin at the 27th verse. Just listen now. You read the whole thing when you go home, if you will. Just a few more minutes.

L-245 Now watch here. Matthew 23, and begin at the 27th verse, "Woe unto you, scribes!" Now, remember, this is holy men He's talking to.
Woe unto you, scribes and you Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres (that's dead people, see), whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

L-246 Hypocrisies and envies and strife, on the inside of them; outside, "I'm Doctor So-and-so."
Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, (look at the Ecumenical Council and the Pentecostals sitting there), but within you're full of hypocrisies and iniquity.

L-247 What is iniquity? Something you actually know is right and you won't do it. Jesus, now watch what He... what generation He puts this on now.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, see, "Oh, the prophets!"
And say, If we had been in them days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

L-248 "We would have believed the Word of the Lord if we have lived back there." Watch.
Wherefore you be witness unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

L-249 That's just what's taking place. Now watch what He says here.
Ye serpents, and generation of vipers, how can you escape the damnation of hell?

L-250   How can you do it? Now He's talking to ministers, see, that's right, holy men. How can you stand and know the Bible predicts and tells them people not to do that, and you can stand and compromise for a few lousy, stinking dollars, for some popularity, and somebody to pat you on the back and call you a "Doctor"? How can you say you love those people?
I'm preaching on tapes, too. See?

L-251 How can you, how can you say you love those people, and let a thing like that take place? See? You--you Pharisees, you blind, you serpents, you generation of vipers, how are you going to escape the damnation of hell? When you... How can a man today, that knows that these things are wrong, and stand there to hold his congregation, to make his denomination grow, and fail to tell women and men? How you going to escape the wrath of hell, when it was made for you? How you going to do it? See?

L-252 Listen, listen here. What is it going to be? "Therefore..." 34th verse.
... behold, I will send unto you prophets,...

L-253 "I will," in the future. There is your Pharisees coming back again. See?
... wise men,... scribes: and some of them you shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall you scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:


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