<TITLE>03. Par 24-37</TITLE>L-24 I said, "That's worse." Uh! "God said, 'It's an abomination,' in His sight, 'for a woman to put on a garment pertains to a man.'" That's exactly right.
One said, "Well, they don't make any other clothes."
"They still make sewing machines and have goods."

L-25 There is no excuse. It's just what's in the heart. That's what shows out. It--it identifies itself.

L-26   And now we find, in this city, it become morally decayed. The preachers was afraid to say anything about it. And, but they had a little, this little old fellow coming up over the hill, was coming to tell them THUS SAITH THE LORD, "Clean this thing up, or you're going to go into captivity." And he lived to see the days of his prophecy fulfilled. He prophesied in the days of Jeroboam the Second, which was just a outcast, anyhow; he--he favored the other nations. And--and this little Amos prophesied and told them, he said, "The very God that you claim to serve, He'll destroy you." And He did.

L-27 And if His voice would be here tonight, in the... in Birmingham, it would claim the same thing to the churches. "The very God that you claim to have served, will destroy you someday." I'm not speaking to this audience here. These tapes go around the world. Now, remember, that is true.

L-28   Then he found out, when he come into the city, that he... all this stuff, I wonder how he must have felt to look and see that decay of the people of God, to whom he was sent.

L-29 I wonder if we would receive him now? If he would come in, would we--would we co-operate with him? Would we give him our--our best? Would we give him our attention? Would we repent if he told us that we should go back to the Word of the Lord and do the way the Lord said do?

L-30 I wonder what our sisters would do about their bobbed hair? Would they let their hair grow out again, if Amos come on? He would preach it, and I'm telling you that, because that's the Word of the Lord.

L-31   I--I wonder if our--if our boards that put out deacons, is married three or four times, and--and so forth like that, and trying to be deacons, I wonder if all these things. I wonder what he would do to man that would let his wife wear shorts and get out in the street out there, and mow the yard, out in the yard, when man is passing by? I wonder what he would say to man like that?

L-32 He would certainly blast it with all that was in him, for he had THUS SAITH THE LORD, and he couldn't do nothing else but that. He found them in that day with a bad case of a disease, spiritual amnesia, and that's just exactly what we got today.

L-33   Now, how did he know what was going to happen? How would Amos know? First, he was a prophet. And, the next thing, he knowed by the disease what the diagnoses was, and he would knowed what the results was.

L-34 If a doctor looks upon a malignancy and sees that that malignant has done took a hold, he knows there is nothing but death left. That's all, unless God does something about it.

L-35 Well, when you look at a city, and you look at a people, you look at a church, and look at a people that's so far away from God, there isn't nothing but to diagnose but, "Sin! 'And the wages of sin is death.' It's dying." The diagnoses proves what it is. You see, when people get away from God and won't listen to the Word, have no more desire for the Word, then there is one diagnoses to it, "'The soul that sinneth, that soul shall die.' Unbelief shall separate you from God." That's exactly right.

L-36 That, he knew what the disease, what the results was, when he seen the disease of--of sin in the city.

L-37   Now, this amnesia, we're told it is a--a--a... cause you to be to a place where you cannot identify yourself. Now, it's a unusual thing. It don't happen too often, but the causes is from shock. It's somebody that don't even know who they are. You find it from wars, sometime, soldiers get it. Sometimes people get it. Another thing causes it, is worry. Worry will cause it.


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