<TITLE>06. Par 49-56</TITLE>L-49 So she gave him a sign test. She took him into a ten-cent store, and she picked up a little something that should attract the attention of this little lad, and he--he wouldn't look at it. And she went to another counter, and she picked up something that should attract his attention, a little toy pistol or something, and--and still it wouldn't attract his attention. And she did everything that she knew, and the people begin to watch the woman getting hysterically. Then she goes to a place that had a--a little jingle bell, and she picked that up and she shook it, hysterically, before his eyes, and said, "Darling, look!" And the little fellow just stared in space. And she dropped the little thing on the floor, and begin to scream out. "Oh, no! No," she screamed.

L-50   And some of the people in the store went to aid her, and to find out what was wrong. She said, "My little boy, the doctor says he is better, but he's not. Anything that ought to attract his attention, of a little boy like that, it doesn't attract him. He only stares in space."

L-51 I think that's got the condition our church is getting into. God shook every gift that He promised in the Bible, before us, and we still stare in space, as we're looking for something else. It seems to be a spiritual condition of the church, that they fail to see the hour that they're living. They are looking for some sensation or something that... something way off in the future. Man is forever doing that; he always blesses God for what He has done, looking forward for what He will do, and ignoring what He is doing. You fail to see the hour we're living!

L-52   That's what those Greeks wanted to know, what the hour was and what that Messiah should be. The portion of Scripture that was made known for that day, if that Messiah fulfilled that, that's the evidence! The vindicated Word of the hour is the evidence; not that He had to have fruits of the Spirit, He had to be a--a lawyer in the courts of--of justice, for His, or one of the Pharisees or Sadducee organizations. He was the manifestation of God's promised Word of that hour.

L-53 You want to see what the fruit of the Spirit is? Watch what the Bible promises for a certain hour, then watch for that to be vindicated. That is the evidence. Jesus said, "Search the Scriptures, for in Them you think you have Eternal Life, They are They that testify of Me. That's what proves Who I am."

L-54   We're looking now, one Scripture before we go into something else. Jesus said, when He was here on earth, in Luke's Book, that, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man," now notice, "and as it was in the days of Noah, before the flood." Now Jesus was reading the same Bible that you and I are reading. And all those things were shadows. Now if you want to find out what it was before the day of Noah, go back and read Genesis. He just said, "They was eating, drinking, marrying, given in marriage."

L-55 But if you notice, go back and read Genesis 6 and find out there what taken place, we see back in there, that, "When the sons of God saw the daughters of man were fair, they taken unto them women," divorce courts. Sons of God! "Man of renown," man of great name.

L-56   Look today, our--our officers, of great man of the world, like this great lord in England just recently, Life magazine packed the article of it, found with these striptease, and so forth. Look at our governor of New York, and all the other countries around, at the immorality. Look at the divorce. America leads the nations in divorce, the rest of the world. Look at women, how they dress and get on the street; and how that man, the very first thing that's thought of almost, today, is something immoral. Every entertainment, on cigarettes, whisky, whatever it will, or some other play, or some... it has to have some immoral woman in it. "As it was in the days of Noah!"


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