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138 The Holy Spirit in Missions
say it very carefully—there are members of Christian churches who
think nothing of limiting the birth of children. They want to live as
husbands and wives, but they do not want to have the results; and
they go into the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah, and then you expect a
revival in a church of that sort. There are ministers who do the
same thing. Are you surprised by the horrors of war? I would be
surprised if there were not such a war. When you talk differently
and act differently from the way the Bible says you should, then the
Holy Spirit cannot work. In that great day of the judgment, when
the Lord says, "I never knew you." They will say, "But lo, we
preached in Thy name." "I never knew you." "But we sat around the
communion table." "I never knew you." "We are Abraham’s chil-
dren." "If you are Abraham’s children, you would do the works of
Abraham," said Christ. The lust of the flesh. When I came to New
York with my wife and we lived in a large apartment building, she
began to talk to all kinds of ladies there. And as my wife talked
with those ladies she found out the awful corruption in married
circles. When I go to a place of meeting, I don’t look for great music,
for a wonderful choir and things of that sort. The one thought that
concerns me is: "Is the Holy Spirit here." And if He is not, then
I am saddened.
"The lust of the eyes." I am not going to talk much about this,
simply to say that it is part of the world. To see something, and want
to have the same. There is that man, and he looks at some other
man’s wife. But you say: "Christians are not doing that." I
know ministers of prominence in this country who are falling in
that sin. Why did the Word of God say that we must be a peculiar
people? Why you can’t differentiate in most churches between the
saints and the world, they are so much alike. You don’t know who
are Christians and who are not, unless you come to a place like the
Moody Tabernacle. And there are not many places like this. We
want to have fashionable churches, we want to have the richest people
with us, we want to have everything in the finest style, and all things
of that sort.
Not by Might nor by Power
Now, friends, I want to tell you another thing. The Word of God
says: "Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith the
Lord." Jesus promised: "I will send you another Comforter." The
original word for that Comforter, "Paraclete," touches my heart,
because it shows that those that are the children of God are led by
the Spirit of God. If any man therefore has not the Spirit of Christ,
he is none of His. If we are God’s children in this present age, we are
led not by Jehovah, we are led not by Jesus, we are led definitely by
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