Christianity is the life that a man lives. It's a personal experience.

112 Oh, what we need tonight, friends, is one of them old-fashion meetings we used to have years ago, to sweep the whole nation. Where, people went home, they straightened up their home, they taken the—the evils out of their home, they stopped all their nonsense around home. Each and every home, they had it straight on the line. And they quit their meanness. They quit their cheating. They quit their lying. They lived honest and soberly with one another; lived like Christians ought to. That's the kind of religion. 

 

113 And, today, the… that same kind of religion that we have, has branched off and branched off till it's become so patterned till it's a Hollywood show, almost. Now, you know that's the truth. And we go into a place, set up a big band of music, and play music, and carry on, and act like, pretending, Christians. But go to them and cross one up one time, and watch what you get. See? 

 

114 Christianity is longsuffering, goodness, meekness, gentleness, patience. Is that right? "Christ, when He was reviled, He reviled not again." Is that right? Christianity is the life that a man lives. It's a personal experience. Not… 

 

115 But some say, "So this guy, I know this fellow does this. I know he can—he can pray for the sick and they'll get well." That don't mean he's a Christian. Faith will do anything. 

 

116 And if you'd only get through the place, as Christians, our little group here at the tabernacle, you all, if you'd only see how that witches and wizards work miracles. Sure, they do. 

 

117 And they have all the demonstrations that Christianity produces, but they can't be Christians. Watch their lives, what they do. 

 

118 The people right there even take living with other women, adultery, as a religion, and them same people does signs and wonders. Not in…

 

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Salvation is an individual affair with God

109 Now, I've seen heathens shout. That's right. I've seen people go around and perform such funny-looking things, till you would, you can believe anything. Pour a rope out of a sack, like that, do some hocus-pocus over it, and the rope stand right straight up in the air. Take a big cobra, and him striking, whether he's got fangs or not; throw a rag out there, and watch his fangs hang in the rags. Go around there, and play a little music over him, and chant, and roll him around his neck. That cobra just looking at him, act like he's going to strike, and then hold back. Don't get near him; he'd kill you. 

 

110 And I've seen them stand out there and walk through beds of fire, when the coals was burnt down. Take off what they had on, walk right down through those fire coals without doing anything, no harm at all. Go into a big pen, beat up, full of glass, and sticking up like that; run and make a big jump in it and lay there and roll over and over and over, and get up, with not a cut on them; jump back out. That's faith, but, brother, that ain't salvation. No, sir. Oh, such, the cunning ways the devil has to deceive people. 

 

111 Salvation is an individual affair with God Almighty, through Jesus Christ the Lord.

 

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Just a perversion, right around.

189 I like to see a man when he's a man. I hate to see one with his wife's underclothes on out here, and slipped up along the side; and—and a roller hanging down here in front, and two cones of hair hanging down like bangs, cut in front. That, I—I couldn't call that a man. He don't know what side of the race he belongs on. See? That's right. You see the woman, look, the woman is trying to cut her, make her hair like the man; the man is trying to make his hair, bangs, like the woman. The man is wearing his wife's underneath clothes; she is wearing his overalls. See, just a perversion, right around. 

190 And that's the same thing it is with nation, with people, with churches, with everything. O God! Where is the end of the thing? The Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, that's the end of it.

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But I sure hate to hear that squeaking they call singing ...

My daughter called me in, not long ago, and said to me, "Daddy," in the next side of the house, she said, "come over here, we're going to have a religious program on." It was a singing, hymn singing, and there was some little Ricky reading it up there. And if I ever seen a sacrilegious movement, it was that! Them guys up there, and people, looked more like it was a floorshow. Supposed to be an Indian tribe, and they were carrying on, and—and jump up and box at one another. 

 

188 Where, what's went with the sincerity, where is those old-fashion hymns we used to sing, and rejoice in the Spirit of God, and tears roll down our cheeks? And now we try to hold our breath until we ain't got enough breath in us, till our face turns blue, to try to show that we are some sort of a singer. See, we've copied that off of Hollywood, and all these programs that we see through this intellectual hymn sing and training of voice. I—I like to hear good singing; I like to hear good old-fashion, heartfelt, pentecostal singing. But I sure hate to hear that squeaking they call singing, today. That's right. I think that's the most ridiculous thing. It's a perversion. That's right.

 

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My daughter called me in, not long ago, and said to me, "Daddy," in the next side of the house, she said, "come over here, we're going to have a religious program on." It was a singing, hymn singing, and there was some little Ricky reading it up there. And if I ever seen a sacrilegious movement, it was that! Them guys up there, and people, looked more like it was a floorshow. Supposed to be an Indian tribe, and they were carrying on, and—and jump up and box at one another. 188 Where, what's went with the sincerity, where is those old-fashion hymns we used to sing, and rejoice in the Spirit of God, and tears roll down our cheeks? And now we try to hold our breath until we ain't got enough breath in us, till our face turns blue, to try to show that we are some sort of a singer. See, we've copied that off of Hollywood, and all these programs that we see through this intellectual hymn sing and training of voice. I—I like to hear good singing; I like to hear good old-fashion, heartfelt, pentecostal singing. But I sure hate to hear that squeaking they call singing, today. That's right. I think that's the most ridiculous thing. It's a perversion. That's right.
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We're going to Heaven

72 We're going to Heaven, not out here somewhere to a rally or something to have a lot of fun and run over one another, and play baseball. We're here handling the most gracious thing there is on earth, the Word of God, and it's to be carried on in godly order.

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If he doesn't, he's going to be confused

36    As the pastor has to do himself before he comes into the audience; he must take the Bible, study in the quietness of his room, in the Spirit, and be anointed to come out before the audience to speak. If he doesn't, he's going to be confused when he gets out there. (Let each man and each woman, with a spiritual gift, come before the Lord.)

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It's subject to the prophet, and the Word is the prophet

30 When you see a man that you have to correct, or a woman, and that person gets out of order, and then you're telling him the Scriptural Truth, then it shows that the spirit that's on them isn't of God. Because the Bible said, "The spirit of the prophets," or, "prophesying," that's, testifying, preaching, speaking in tongues, or whatever it is, 'cause tongues interpreted is prophecy. So it's subject to the prophet, and the Word is the prophet. So we--we see that it's out of order for a man or a woman to jump up and give a message, no matter how much they want to do it, while the preacher is in the pulpit.

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