<TITLE>15. Par 131-145</TITLE>L-131   Then when he realized where he was standing, when he realized what would happen.

L-132 As I said, I may never see you again. I don't know. This may be my last Message to you. I may, if I... if the Lord permits, and I come back next year, we all won't be here. Huh-uh. Some of us will be gone. And each time, I must speak as if it was our last time; 'cause it is, some of us. It may be my last time.

L-133 What a condition it is, a error! And if we would only stop like Samson did, and think just a moment of what we are supposed to be, by God's Bible. Not a great big something, not going, keeping up with the Joneses; but a humble, reverent, Spirit-filled little group of people. Not shining; glowing. Hollywood shines; the Gospel glows. See, we want something shiny, the biggest churches we've ever had. We would be better off, we stood down at the alley, in a storeroom, and have the Spirit of God back on us again. That's right. Notice.

L-134   And as he stood there and realized, and his hair had begin to grow out again; but he could not be effective, because he didn't have any eyes. And he cried, "Lord, revenge my eyes. They've put my eyes out."

L-135 They're, today I might say, the creeds! "They sent me to a seminary. And the call that was in my heart, of the living God, they punched all that out of me, saying, 'Those things was for another age.'"

L-136 "Revenge my eyes!" What was Samson thinking? "There was a possibility, perhaps. Jehovah is full of love. He, it might be possible that He would hear me."

L-137 Oh, I wish I could get Samson to wake to that tonight, there is a possibility! He is full of love, forgiving the iniquity of His people, from generation to generation, showing mercies to thousands that love Him and keep His Commandments.

L-138   "There is a possibility," Samson thought, "if I'd only get revenge of my eyes. I can't see those things no more. They don't happen."

L-139 We can't see the great Holy Spirit, in our great organizations, moving like It did at the beginning. It's gone. See, it isn't there. It's blind, and don't know it. Jesus said it would be that way, this Laodicea Church Age. "'Rich,' say, 'I am rich, and increased in goods, and have need of nothing.' And don't know that thou art naked, blind, miserable, and poor, and don't know it." See, don't know it!

L-140 Well, we had a slogan out, "1944, a million more," a certain organization. And through the ministry of great man, they've had a million more what? Joiners. That's right.

L-141   He knew there was a possibility, but the thing of it is, today, the people don't seem to come conscious that there is a possibility. They're satisfied to go right on down the old trend they're going. See, don't do that. Believe God! Have faith in Him.

L-142 Now they say, oh, they, "We'll sit tight." That's right. "We clap our hands, and--and everything, and shout." But you was all sails and no anchor. See?

L-143 How can you clap your hands and shout, and deny the Word being the Truth? How can you clap your hands and shout, and the Holy Spirit will walk among you, and then you say, "Oh, it's a telepathy. It's--it's something, it's just not worth it"? See? See?

L-144   We have great gatherings, glitter, worldly tinsel, great meetings, what do we get? More members. The Pentecostal church, three years ago, put more members in it than all the rest of the churches did together. That was in Our Sunday Visitor, the Catholic paper. The Sunday Visitor said they had a million converts to Catholicism in that year, and said, "The Pentecostals had a million five hundred thousand." Yeah. Yes, sir.

L-145 All kinds of scholarship, men learned to talk, in the schools, and say their speeches, intellectual, Hollywood showmen, pardon the expression, preaching to a bunch of so-called Pentecostal grandchildren!


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