<TITLE>12. Par 141-154</TITLE>L-141 If you're a member of a church, that's a good thing, but that's not good enough. See, the rich young ruler was a member of the church. See? He asked Jesus what could he do to have Eternal Life. He never accepted It. He walked away. What a foolish thing for that young man to do. Don't take his place. You remember the last time he was identified? A little later, he prospered. He got richer. He got to a place till even his barns bursted. But then we find his last identification, in hell, flames tormenting. Don't, don't let that happen to you. Accept Christ.

L-142   You young people, you young girls, young boys, just at the turning of life, please do that. Hear me, as--as your brother, one who loves you. I'm here because I love you. I love God, and I love you, and I cannot love God if I don't love you.

L-143 I would a lot rather, if you had a comment to pass, pass it on my son out there, or one of my children. Let me just... I, I'll go without it. Any parent will do that; so will God. See? Love His people. Love one another.

L-144 You say, "What do you scold them for?" Genuine love is corrective.

L-145 If your child is sitting out on the street; you say, "Well, there sits Junior. He oughtn't to do that, but I don't want to hurt his little feelings." You don't love him. He'll get killed there. If you love him, you'll bring him in and give him a spanking. You'll make him obey.

L-146 That's the way God does. Love is corrective, and that's genuine love.

L-147   When a preacher stand and lets you women bob your hair, and wear paint and stuff, and don't correct you, there is no genuine love there; and won't call it out. And let you man marry three or four times, and all of these other things, and get by with it, there is no genuine love there. Let you join a church, and pat you on the back, and smother you with some creed, then, "That's all you have to do, is join the holy church," there is no love there. Or, either, the man is so totally lost, himself, he don't see.

L-148 Genuine love is corrective, and brings you back to the Word of God.

L-149 Look at Jesus, how, what He said, 'cause He loved them, so much that He died in their place, when they was even calling for His Blood.

L-150   Now may the great Holy Spirit... I want to wait just a minute. I'm waiting till the anointing of the Holy Spirit gets upon me, before we get started. I have been preaching. Thank you, for your cooperation.

L-151 Now, each one in here, wherever you are, anywhere in the building, pray just for a minute, say, "Lord Jesus, help me! Help me! Let me touch Your garment." Jesus said, you know, when the woman touched His garment, He didn't feel it, physically, but He turned around and knowed who she was and what she did. He is the same Jesus this afternoon, a High Priest can be touched by the feeling of our infirmity.

L-152 Do you believe, each one of you now, that it's true, that the God that made this promise, once more (and may He show it) that we're living in the days of Sodom? How many believe that, in the building, just raise up your hand.

L-153 We're living, as it was, in Sodom. The whole system has become polluted, the world system, everything, the church system, political system. There is nothing. Politics is so corrupted. The systems, everywhere, our dictators, it's all corruption. The church has become the same way. Families have become the same way. It's just corruption, Sodom!

L-154 Then, remember, God has got that before you, then remember He said that He would represent Himself in human flesh, and would do like He did before Sodom, before the promised Son came on the scene. He promised to send one that would forerun that promised Son, as He did at the first place, that would introduce; and He said, "When the Son of man is being revealed."


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