<TITLE>10. Par 68-76</TITLE>L-68 You can't rely on that. Many of them speak in tongues and they deny the very principles of Jesus Christ. I've took my Bible, layed It right out to a man; him standing there, speaking in tongues. And I say, "Brother, This is exactly."

L-69 "I don't even want to see It. Glory to God! I know what Jesus said, I don't care about the rest of It. Hallelujah! Glory to God," like that. Why, a man that would turn his back upon Truth and actually put on a shindig like that, to keep from seeing the Truth, that's hypocrisy, and the heights of it, just because he would have to give up his fellowship card if he accepted what was Truth. That's worse than Samson. Notice, but they didn't catch It. They sit tight.

L-70   Now, oh, sure, we have great get-togethers, "meetings," we call it, worldlied revivals, and so forth, all full of tinsel, sure, great big things, and great advertisement, "The man with the message of the hour, and So-and-so and So-and-so." We have all of that, but where is God? That, that's the thing we're looking for, where is God? A great big piece of scholarly showmanship, somebody with enough education that wouldn't... use the word half the people couldn't understand what he was saying, and yet he's got an honorary degree, and a degree, and a degree, and a degree, that he can lectionary and put the words together, and stand so perfectly straight, and say "amen" just exactly right, and turn like a military man, walk off the platform. But where is God?

L-71 Samson had stood in that place one time, himself, and knowed the power of God, but now he had been shaven of those privileges. He was just as big as he ever was, but God wasn't there.

L-72   We got a lot of that today. It's too bad that we have it, but we have it. Now we notice. But it don't bring back the Spirit of God. Now, the thing of it is, the people are not willing to pay the price to get back to That. I believe that God just remains the same as He ever was. But, the thing of it is, the people has got so wound up into the world, and the world in them, till they just got just enough religion to make them miserable. Not enough to really turn loose to God and give your whole heart into Him, but enough, "Yeah, I go to church. Certainly, I enjoy good singing and clapping hands. Yeah, I love that, see."

L-73   But when it comes right down to putting what you say you believe into practice, and willing to confess the wrong, they don't do it. It just isn't there. They don't have it. Well, that's real conviction. That's what we need. We've long left that, a long time ago, and swapped it. Prayer, and--and confession, and conviction, we swapped it for emotion, a shaking, or a jerking, or a jumping up-and-down. That's the reason there is no holding tight, 'cause there is nothing there to hold them, until you come upon the basis of God's Word, of godly sorrow, ready to repent and make anything right, and do what's right, ready to live right. I don't care what the people say, or anything else, you live for yours, for Jesus Christ and what He said. Then you take a church like that, coming back, there is a possibility of it coming. But they're not willing to do it.

L-74   Samson prayed right, "Lord, let me die with these Philistines." Oh, my! See what it's going to cost him? What if God answers his prayer? "Let me die." Oh! I like that.

L-75 Was it Patrick Henry said, "Give me liberty or give me death"? That's right.

L-76 All right, that's it, liberty or death! It's back to God, or--or death. What are we going to do? What are we mimicking? What are we try to play, Christianity? If the Holy Ghost is still the Holy Ghost that fell at Pentecost, It still does the same things It did then. The same Power, the same Spirit, It'll work the same way. We don't need a council of churches. We need the Bible back in action. That's exactly.


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