<TITLE>14. Par 109-116</TITLE>L-109 A lion roars, everybody is scared, yes, sir, if you ever heard one roar in the jungle. You can hear these meowing around these cages out here, them tame lions, but you ought to hear a real, wild one roar one time. Little rocks will fall off the hill, five hundred yards away. I want to see where all that belch comes out of them lungs. And he throws his head down, throws that fur up; I never heard anything... Like a--a cannon going off, when he belches out that big roar in his lungs. Who couldn't be scared?
They say, if you're ever killed by a lion, it's painless. He scares you to death 'fore he gets to you. See, you don't notice it. He scares you with that great ferocious roar, and here he is on you in a split second.

L-110 He said, "The lion has roared, who can but fear? And God has spoke, who can but prophesy?" When you see God doing something, you say... "I might not be a prophet..." Jonah said... "I might not be a prophet, or the son of a prophet. But God has spoke, who can but prophesy?"

L-111 I might not be a prophet, I might not be this, that, or the other. When I see God doing anything, and I see it here in the Word, and He promised it, who can hold their peace and keep still? Sure, He's done it.

L-112 Neither can we hide behind creeds and all these here fellowships, and down to--to Tarshish. We don't want to go with them fellowships.

L-113 But many, like Adam, do the same thing, try to make a substitute in some way, try to find a way out, and--and make a substitute, to face God. After knowing the wrong, faced up to the Truth, went along with his wife and did exactly what God told him not to do. He went right ahead and did it, anyhow. And then he found hisself naked, she and he, both, in the garden of Eden. Their eyes come open. They knowed what was right and wrong, then. And then he tried to find a substitute, to kind of cover himself up with it.
Now, that's just about the way we do today, an excuse, say, "Well, I tell you, if it was here, or if this." Or, "if, if, if," that's just... See? But you must face up to it. It's either right or wrong. And if it's right, let's stay by it. If it's wrong, get away from it. That's all. Get what... Find out what is right. You don't want to wait any longer. Let's find out now what's Truth and what's right, and stay with it. We know that it's true.

L-114 Now, we find today that our people are so... It seems like all the sincerity has gone out of the churches. I... In the...

L-115 We are living in a house there of a precious sister that comes to this church. She is probably setting here tonight. And she rents it out to her... the people. And she has just been so sweet to us about that place, about letting us have that place. And so I'd call her name, but she might not want me to do it. And she's been so sweet to us, well, we certainly wouldn't--wouldn't want to expose her. But she has been a very, very dear woman. And in the house, there was a television over in one side. We got a little, two, duplex.
I got a big family, and a bunch of youngn's, and we... and you--you know, and they have to have beds, and plenty of them. And everything piled up on top, and you have to walk through this and through that, to get in and out.

L-116 And then over there they had a television. And in this television, these kids got to watching, on Sunday morning, some kind of a hymn-singing that come on. And, you know, it--it would almost make you ashamed; if there wasn't a genuine Christianity somewhere that you could put your hands on, to see what's called Christianity. Why, it seems like all the sincerity is gone out of it. Why, they don't, they don't seem to... Why, it's just terrible the way they stand there and draw their fists and fight one another, on there, and try to sing hymns and everything like that; and pull jokes that hardly a sailor would pull, and say all kinds of things, and kid and go on. You know, the sacredness of--of--of Christianity has seemed to lose its place.


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