<TITLE>17. Par 36-40</TITLE>L-36 Well, I didn't know what the woman was talking about. I reached up and got a hold of that big old hat--fat hand there, with about forty rings on it, looked to me like. I got it. I said, "Get it down here, so I'll know you when I see you again." Yeah. Putting on a lot of dog. What was she? Six foot of dirt, out yonder. That's right.
Oh, that's the way it is today. How can you expect anything more, when people just bathe their souls in all kinds of corruption and things.
"Birds of feathers flock together." And you know some of the most beautiful outside birds there is, are scavengers. That's right. Well, if they don't notice the outside, it's the inside that counts. That's right. All right.
There, Mary run out and met... Mary went...?... Elisabeth, and she hugged her. And she said, "Oh, my, I'm so happy to know that you're to have the child."
She said, "Yes, I'm to have the baby. That's true."
And said, "You know, the Lord appeared to me also." See? She had a blessing to--to explain. Said, "The Lord has appeared to me and told me that I was to going to have Baby, knowing no man. And I would call His Name Jesus."

L-37 And little John, as far as we know, had never received life. Elisabeth said, she was scared. It was six months with her, then with baby, with the baby, and no life. That's subnormal. That's altogether subnormal, about two or three months. And here it was six months, no life.
And just as soon as Mary spoke the Name "Jesus," little John received life, begin to leap in his mother's womb for joy. If the first time the Name of Jesus Christ, spoke through mortal lips, brought life to a dead baby, what ought It to do to a borned again Church? Hallelujah. What ought It to do to a sick person? That Name "Jesus" brought a dead baby to life.

L-38 And the Bible said that John received the baptism of the Holy Ghost, or received the Holy Ghost in his mother's womb, and was born full of the Holy Ghost. Hallelujah. There you are. Received joy, and begin leaping and jumping. And the Holy Ghost come upon his mother, and she prophesied. Oh, my. Talk about short of the Kingdom of God? Yes, sir.
Then Mary returns back after staying with her many days. Look at little old John when he was born. "What manner of child should this be?"
"Well, I guess we'll have to send Him off to the seminary," cemetery, whatever you want. It's both a dead place.

L-39 A seminary preacher puts me in the mind of a incubator chicken. A little incubator chicken's turned out mechanically; the little fellow just chirps, chirps for a mammy, and ain't got any to go to. That's just exactly like an incubator preacher. He's got reading, writing, arithmetic, knows how to stand so proper, and bow his head, and holler "amen" like a dying calf. And knows no more about God than an Hottentot knows about a Egyptian knight. That's right. You know it's the truth. You might not say, "Amen," to it, but it's the truth. That's right.
Oh, I don't care if my boy don't even know his ABC's, I want him to know Christ, and full pardon of sin, and receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Hallelujah. They don't know split peas from coffee. That don't make any difference to me, as long as he knows Christ and the forgiveness of sin.

L-40 Look at this little old fellow at nine years old, took out into the wilderness, not to some seminary to have some embalming fluid pumped into him. No, sir. He went out into the wilderness and there he lived with God until he was thirty years old. You know the birth of Jesus. We're running short of time, so I won't take time to rehearse that. You know it.
But at thirty years old, "What kind of a preacher ought this to be?" Here he comes out of the wilderness, not with his collar turned around in the back, and a tuxedo coat--coat on, eating fried chicken and biscuits every day for dinner. No, sir. Hallelujah.
He come out of the wilderness an old pair of hairy trousers on, and a sheepskin belt wrapped him around like that. But he preached repentance.


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