<TITLE>09. Par 59-67</TITLE>L-59   What has it done to us? It's almost made our Pentecostal women a Hollywood showmanship. That's right. It used to be wrong to go to the movies, the bioscope. But now, you know, the Devil just beat them to that, he put it right in the house. See? That's right. It used to be wrong to do it. It used to be wrong for our sisters to cut their hair or wear short dresses. But now it isn't, not in the Pentecostal way of thinking, in their organization. But it's still wrong, by God's Word! But, you see, they got their--their--their--their power bobbed off. Uh-huh. See? And then they say, "Well, our church believes..." I don't care what your church believes. It's what God said! That's the reason she stands, today, without the answer.

L-60   That's exactly the way Samson stood. Samson was the same thing. He must have thought of his errors, as he stood there. I don't believe a man could stand there and think sensibly, but what could think, knowing, here he is now, he just become a--a--a stumbling block. What a condition, great big man standing there! All the man that ever was in him, as far as what I call muscles, every one of them was there. He still had his muscles. He still had his big muscles, his biceps he had. He had great big fists. He still probably was just as big as he ever was. Frankly, the Pentecostal church is a lot bigger than it ever was, but where was God? That's it. Yes. As he stood there, remembering his errors, he remembered what caused it first. What caused it, first, was not exactly his natural eyes put out, but it was his spiritual sight put out, that he let Delilah woo him into it.

L-61   And that's what's hindered the church today, is, the spiritual insight of the Word of God has been swapped for a bunch of creeds. That's the eye the Devil has. First thing he can do, is put your eyes out, tell you, "It's a bunch of holy-rollers," tell you, "It's this, that, or the other, or some devil's move, or it's mental telepathy, or something on that order." If he can punch your eyes out, you're in darkness.

L-62 And notice Samson's first plea in his prayer, "Lord, that I might avenge my two eyes!" He knew there is where his trouble come. Notice, his locks had growed out, but he was blind. He would have to stagger, all the rest of his days. He was blind.

L-63 We may have as big a machinery as we ever had, and as many members; but what good does it do, if you're blind to the very thing that's going on in front of you, and you can't see it? What's happening right here, day by day, along with the people, the Holy Spirit revealing Himself, and people don't see it. That's blind, spiritual blind!

L-64   They stood and watched Jesus perform miracles, and so forth, and declare Himself to be the Messiah, and they couldn't see it. He said, "They got eyes, but they can't see." They were blind.

L-65 And Samson was blind. But here is what Samson recognized, that the church has never come to yet, he knew there was a possibility of coming back again.

L-66 If the church could only know that, a possibility, but the people of today don't seem to catch the vision yet. They don't seem to catch it, that there is a possibility. It doesn't come through. You can shout a little more, pat your hands a little more, or dance a little more, that isn't it. No. It's back to the Word; there is a possibility of coming back and getting the Word on the inside again. You by-passed It there. Notice, they sit tight. Oh, sure, clap their hands? Yes, sir. But, you see, that's all sails, without any anchor.

L-67   I've seen the heathens clap their hands, do a dance, speak in tongues, and do all those things, and interpret it, but they were African heathens. Sure. I seen them lay a pencil down, and that witch doctor stood there and made that pencil stand up, and run up-and-down on a place up there, and come back and played, like, "shave and a hair cut, two bits," and drawed out an unknown tongue and wrote it out, and one of them stood there, interpreting it. Oh, my!


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