<TITLE>07. Par 51-58</TITLE>L-51 We are coming apart, looking for a messiah (something) to come and save us, get us out of all of it. We look down... the troubles down in the East. We look over in Africa to the uprises, and the racial problems, and the integration, and--and segregations. And we all fussed and hollered here not long ago (our colored friends) about, "We must have, we must have integration. That's what we need. We must have integration; every man, equal, every man." Well, that's perfectly all right. That's perfectly all right. I don't believe in slavery. Them people wasn't slaves to begin with. They're not slaves.

L-52   God is a segregationalist. I am too. Any Christian's a segregation. God segregates His people from all the rest of them. They're... They've always been a segregation. He chose a nation. He chooses a people. He is a segregationalist. He made all nations. But still, a real genuine Christian has to be a segregationalist. Separating himself from the things of the world and everything, and come into one purpose, Jesus Christ.

L-53 But they holler that. I've tried to tell them, "That's not the thing that's going to save our nation. That's only a political scheme. It's a--it's a thing of communistic background." I think Martin Luther King's going to lead his people to a biggest slaughter, and massacre, that they've ever been into. And they... You see, that ain't going to pull the world together. That ain't going to save us. We give them integration. Now it's worse than it ever was. See, that isn't the... that isn't the question. There's only one thing that can: that is God. And they certainly don't want It.

L-54 They didn't want Him then. They were falling apart, and their politics was coming apart, their nations was breaking, their church was breaking up, and they crying for a Messiah. They wanted Him. "Oh, send us a Messiah." But when He come...

L-55   God gave... gives the answer to your prayer. You've asked, and you shall receive. And that's... I could stop here for hours, on man and women, Christians even, praying for something; and God gives the answer and they don't even recognize it.

L-56 And now, God gave them the answer. They wanting a Messiah. They knowed that they'd had Caesars, and they'd had--they'd had Davids, they'd had Solomons (the wise man), they'd had Davids (the mighty warriors), they--they'd had all kinds, but they knowed they had to have help from Heaven and they... God had promised them a Messiah. And He sent them that Messiah, in answer to their prayer, but they didn't want Him.

L-57   I wonder, today, if our prayers... You hear them say, "Pray for a great revival. Pray for this. Pray for a breaking forth. Pray for unity." I wonder, if God would send such a program, if we would accept it. I just wonder if we would accept what He sends to us. You see, He... The reason that we pray for these things, because we know it's needy. But when God sends it in the way that He wants it, then it's not according to our taste, and therefore we won't receive it. And that's the way it was in that day. If He was not in the taste of their belief and their... They--they would not receive Him again, today. That's the reason they asked this question, "Who is this? Who is this fellow that's coming?" See, it was a--a tremendous time. Oh, everybody was... a tension. Something was fixing to happen.

L-58   And look at the world today, what a tension the whole world lives in. You go down the street... It's--it's not even safe to drive. It's not safe to be on a four lane highway. Everybody's at a tension, snapping and... What's the matter? Quieten down. Where you going? That's what's making the insane institutions fill up. That's what's got the church in such a turmoil. They're--they're so head-bound on certain thing. They won't stop and consider God's Word, and the hour that we're living; all under a strain, tension.


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