Prodigal

But the least sin should be confessed, always, no matter what, how little it looks to you, it’s sin in the sight of God. Look how little the first sin was, but look what it did to the human race. When the first sin was committed, look at the difference. When the message came to Heaven that, “Your son, has fallen.”

Look at Adam, made, they made aprons of fig leaves, and put that around them, the fig leaves. But when they came to the place where God called Adam and Eve to stand before Him, they realized that they had a man-made religion. The word religion means, “a covering.” And they were covered by a self-made apron. You see it?

Now, about your church, what you belong to, that doesn’t mean nothing to God, it’s what you are in your heart. That’s right. God ain’t going to ask you whether…what church you belonged to, it’s what you are in your heart is what God is going to look at.

That’s right. “Except a man be borned again, he will in no wise enter the Kingdom.” Borned of the Spirit of God, renewed, regenerated, become a new person in Christ Jesus, old things passed away, and all things become new, converted, changed over, going your road this way, and turn, come this way, vice versa.

And so is it today, friends, not the Golden Rule, which is all right, not the Ten Commandments, which is holy, but God killed Something to cover you up, His Son, Christ Jesus died on Calvary, the Innocent for the guilty to make a way that you and I might be innocent in Him before God. And that’s the thing that the Holy...

You go to homes today, I’ve went into Christian homes, when they open the icebox and it would be full of beer cans, supposed to be Christian home. Christians don’t fool with that stuff…?…We’ve traded the old-fashioned prayer altar out of the house, and made a card table out of it. That’s what’s got the children to turn...