<TITLE>11. Par 107-115</TITLE>L-107   Here a few weeks ago, when I was watching a--a program, out of one of the filling stations I was standing in, of our great brother, Billy Graham, when he was making his greatest revival he had, or had the greatest revival in California. I was watching this television, was catching the face of them coming to the altar. Kids punching one another, and fighting, going along the altar, and laughing and cutting up, no sincere, chewing chewing gum, looking all around. Go right in there and say "yes," they make a confession and come back out. Billy said he can have thirty thousand of them in one years time, he ain't got thirty left. There is no sincerity. There is no more sincere.

L-108 People is not ready to confess. They want to pray, "God, You heal me, do this, or do that, do that." But when it comes to dying out, and confessing your sins and getting right with God, it isn't seen no more. That's the reason we don't see no more healings than what we have. That's the reason I'm preaching these things. Let's get things ready for a healing service. You've got to get the thing working first. God heals you for His glory. And we must be ready for His glory.

L-109   Now that's what Egypt had to do. Remember, they tested the lamb for fourteen days. Egypt... He said, "Get all the filth out of your house. Put every, all the leaven out."

L-110 You can't have no leaven. When this mark is come into your house, this Token, you cannot have a leaven in It. That's the world. You can't love God and mammon, the world, at the same time; all the cares of the world, all the cares, and your creeds, and your fusses, and your difference. You are coming to Jesus Christ!

L-111   Could you imagine a Jew in the Old Testament, coming down with his lamb, to make an offering? He was obeying Jehovah, what He said do, to him. That went on. He accepted the sacrifice. He seen the lamb die. His hands was bloody with the dying lamb. He went back home, justified, because he come in sincerity. That was fine.

L-112 But after a while it become a tradition. And man said, "You know, this is the passover time, we better go do this, and I've got to offer a lamb." It become a place you could buy a lamb, get somebody else to offer it for him. It become a creed. It become a dogma in the church. And God said the very sacrifice that He required become a stink in His nose, because it was offered without sincerity.

L-113   And we Pentecostal people are getting in that same stage. That's right. We've come down till the sincerity is gone, among us. We come in and try to take in people into the church, like the other church does, to get big crowds, and so forth, in our churches. We should never do that.

L-114 We've got to come to sincerity, and there die as dead as we can be, that the Blood of Jesus Christ and the Token can come upon us. It makes a person a different person. A woman can get up from there and go away, she wants to obey every Scripture is in that Bible, regardless of what takes place. A man, the same way; no denomination, no creed or nothing else, can ever separate him from the love of God that he found there at that altar, if he'll continue to follow in the way of the Lord. But today we don't have the sincerity to it, we just take it as just a tradition, "Our fathers did this."

L-115   Just like Thanksgiving Day. Many people today never thought, tens of thousands times thousands, and millions of America eat dinner today in a thanksgiving celebration, with a turkey on the table, and never as much as offered a blessing, returned thanks. But they wouldn't have this without having it. On the same table where they had the turkey, a quart of whiskey and a lot of beer sitting around the table. It's become a tradition.
You say, "That's ridiculous. That's not even Americanism."


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