<TITLE>09. Par 73-80</TITLE>L-73   Oh, for the grace of God, that He would give us understanding of such great mysteries! As Paul spoke here, further on down in Ephesians, speaking of the husband and wife, and said, "This is a mystery," how the women should be in respects to their husband. Even the second place, I believe it is, the entire Bible, that reverence was ever spoke to. Said, "The women, seeing she reverence her husband, reverence her husband." Then a husband ought to live such a life before his wife that his wife could reverence him as a son of God. And if he doesn't live that kind of life, well, then, course, she wouldn't reverence him, because she knows what he's made of. But when it is a man that is reverent man, reverent and clean, with his wife and before his family, a real servant of God, then the women, children, and all, should respect that servant of God, with reverence.

L-74   Notice now. Woman, they want to have bobbed hair. They want to wear shorts, paint, makeup. These little bikinis and things that they--that they wear nowdays, they want to do it; and yet they want to go to church. You see that anointing upon the spirit, not upon the soul. See?

L-75 Said, wants to be a Christian and also do these things, and the pastor says it's okay. Then if he says it's okay, "You can be a member; your name can be on my church book here; it's okay," then he is giving her his denominational filter to suit a worldly woman's taste. She loves the world; she likes the taste of it. So he's got a filter for her, but she's a long ways from being a thinking woman. But there you are. That's where I found this text.

L-76 No, she isn't a--a thinking woman. If she was thinking, she would know the church isn't going to judge her at the last Day. The church is judging her now by her membership, her loyalty to the circles that she belongs to and the societies. They're judging her now by that. But God is going to judge her at the last Day. So she isn't thinking.

L-77   Just like the man that's smoking; he loves the cigarette so well until his thinking faculties has become numbed with nicotine. And the woman's desires have so numbed her thinking faculties until she'll do these things that's evil in the sight of the Lord, 'cause she wants to do it; it satisfies a worldly woman's taste. So she takes a worldly church's filter; she goes right through it, fine, nothing to bother. Shows...

L-78 Now we see there that that is Truth. And the pastor says, "That's all right. We don't condemn the women of doing that. It's all right." There's enough sin in it; that's through his filter. Shows that they went through a theological filter. And they got a theological taste; and they had a theological taste. But it certainly didn't go through God's Filter. No, sir.

L-79   Now, if there is a theological filter for the theological thinker, and there is a church filter for the church thinker, a cigarette filter for the cigarette thinker, there's got to be a real filter somewhere for the real thinker. And God has a Filter, and that's His Word. It's a separator, for It's the waters of separation for sin. Now, that's the thinking man or the holy man's taste.

L-80 And if a man goes through this kind of a filter of the world, he--he's got a worldly taste. And like the tobacco company, he gets more members in his church by pushing them through this filter. If they say, "There is more women goes to church than there is man." That may be so. Now, that may be all so true, when she can go and do anything she wants to. That's right. She'll do, she'll join up with anything, but she went through that church filter. If she went through God's Filter, she would come out different from that. See? She couldn't go through God's Filter and come out with bobbed hair. She just can't do it.


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