<TITLE>11. Par 112-121</TITLE>L-112 Brother, I tell you, it means a whole lot more than run up and shaking hands with the preacher and a few drops of water sprinkled on you. That's right. Brother, it runs a whole lot more than walking up to the altar and taking communion, and walking back, and set down in your seat. It means a selling-out, dying-out, brother, and getting an old fashion, backwoods, sky-blue, sin-killing religion that don't wash you white, but--don't whitewash you, but washes you white (Hallelujah.), cleans you up, burns you out, scours you out, sterilizes you, and make you a new person. Amen. That's old sassafras kind, brother, but, I tell you, It'll stick to your ribs. Get some of it. That's right, It'll hold you through the trials. Amen. I feel like shouting, pretty near. That's pretty big for... Yes, sir.

L-113 When I think of it, brother, it's secured. God said so. Can we take it? Sure, we can take it. "In the last days I'll pour out My Spirit, and I'll show signs and wonders." Hallelujah. He said He would do it. God promised it. We're at Kadesh; let's go get it. Somebody's been over and brought back some grapes. I know the land's good. That's right. Let's go over and get some of them. That's right.

L-114 The church begin to murmur and squirmer, and everything. God would've sent the church out years ago, if they had just a-listened to Him. But they started to arguing and fussing, and murmuring around.
The Methodist had an old fashion revival back in the days of Spurgeon; they begin to receive gifts and so forth. And the church got right in there and begin to tear that thing up, and the church has been wandering in the wilderness ever since, wandering around. It broke up into Nazarene, Pilgrim Holiness, and this, that, and this and that, and that and the other, and everything else, till now it's like a big bunch of I don't know what. It's true. They organized great schools and thought they'd teach the theology of some place.

L-116 As I said last night, it puts me in the mind of an undertaker's morgue. Go around there, and it's so cold. You go in, the spiritual thermometer--thermometer says "hundred below zero."
Somebody, one time not long ago, a little old woman come in from the country; she walked in; she had her little old long dress on, it all up around her neck up here. She walked in, and her--her son taken her down to church. He was ashamed of her. She walked up to the door; she said, "Good morning, elder," walked in like that.
And her husband, or her brothers, or her son said, "Oh, mother, mother, you be still." He'd gone--belonged to some big aristocrat church, you know.
She said, "Well, glory to God. Ain't I in the house of God?" She didn't know no different.

L-120 Let me tell you, brother, her name might not have been in "Who's Who?" as a lot of them has got it, and they say they have four hundred perfect. But her name was written in the Lamb's Book of Life. I'd rather have mine There than in all the "Who's Who?" Hallelujah. That tells who's who; there's a name written in the Lamb's Book of Life.

L-121 She walked in and set down like that. The preacher begin to say, "Now, the Lord Jesus Christ came to the earth to save the sinner."
She said, "Amen. Glory to God. That's right, brother." And everybody squeaked their neck around like a gander somewhere, looking around, wonder why.
And so he said, "Uh-um, uh-um." He was reading his notes, you know. So he was kind of got mixed up then, and he said, "Uh-um, uh-um. Excuse me." Said, "And, as I was saying, the Lord Jesus Christ came to the earth."
She said, "Glory to God. That's right, brother. Hallelujah."
So the usher walked back and pecked her on the shoulder, said, "Mrs., you'll have to keep still or we'll have to put you out." Oh, my. Hallelujah.


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