<TITLE>10. Par 85-94</TITLE>L-85 What if the Christian today could have a testimony like that? You would be a masterpiece right here in Yuma, on the street. If you're a wash-woman out there behind the wash tub, you still be a masterpiece to God, when you can say, "I do that always which pleases God," and the whole world can see the--the work of Jesus Christ reflecting in you.

L-86   It's told, one time, the old gold, before they had the smelter. The... They used to take the gold and beat it, the beater would, the Indians in the early days when Arizona was in its youth. They beat the gold until the beater seen his own reflection in the gold. They beat all the iron pyrite, the dross, the dirt, out of it, until the beater could see his own reflection like a mirror, beating out.

L-87 Now, that's what the Gospel does. So many people don't like to be turned over and beat out. Well, what the church needs tonight is a good, old-fashion, Holy Ghost beating-out, of the world and the things of the world. That's what Pentecost needs tonight. That's what our movements needs tonight, is a good, old-fashion, gold-turning beating, until all the world is beat out of us, and Jesus Christ is reflected.

L-88   Let me have this handful of people in here tonight, fully considered the Christ, and their life dedicated to Christ. I can do more with this handful, or God can do more, rather, with this handful of people here, than you could do with the whole World Council of Churches, towards the Kingdom of God. One man surrendered into His hands fully, that's all God needs.

L-89 But, you see, we're not willing to lay still and let Him beat this side, that side, knock this out, knock that out, knock this idea out, and that, and let Jesus Christ be reflected in us. We see too many movies. We got too many televisions. We got too many other worldly amusements, until the church has lost its taste to the people. It's because the Holy Spirit moves out, and something else moves in. That's right, friends.

L-90   I hear the testimonies, the old-fashion Pentecostals, how they had prayer meetings all night long. Our fathers and mothers, forty, fifty years ago, pray all night long. The people hated them, on the street. And we think, today, if everybody don't pat us on the shoulder, why, there is something wrong with us. "Woe unto you when all men speak well of you." He was despised and rejected of men, and we're His image. Amen.

L-91 What we need today is some real, genuine prayer meetings, some cleaning up, all the way from the pulpit to the janitor, the whole house to be cleaned up, of God, beat up, reflect the Image of the Beater, the Gospel preached in the power of the resurrection of Christ. That's right.

L-92   This little social gospel that we got along, and pat this one on the shoulder, and make this one a deacon, and that one a presbyter, or something other like that, both politics. Was that exactly what happened in Nicaea Rome? We want to get away from that stuff. Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterian, Pentecostals, and all, we must move out of that.

L-93 Politics don't belong in Church. The Holy Ghost is to take the Church over, and not a politic vote of who is who. "God placed in the church some apostles, some prophets, and some teachers, and evangelists, and pastors," Not men voted them in there. God placed them in there, by the calling of the Holy Spirit, prayer meetings, and laying on of hands, and staying before God.

L-94   But, today, we have socialized our religion to a place till it's almost like politics, itself, that we play it in all of our denominations. We're... One can't point to the other one. We're all guilty. In there you find some genuine men and genuine women. But the trouble, what I'm thinking about, we're getting too much on the--on the minority side, the genuine people that wants to believe and wants the power of God. There's too many brought in just by a social act, "Well, this is a good man. He's a fine fellow."


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