<TITLE>12. Par 125-136</TITLE>L-125 That's what we got into (That's right.), schools of the prophets. We raise up the teachers; we inject old embalming fluid into them to keep them. They're dead anyhow, and then put embalming fluid in to keep it deader, some of this old theology they teach that the days of miracles is past; there's no such thing as heartfelt religion.
Puts me in mind of a colored man down in the south, an old fellow packing his Bible all around. Said, "Why you carrying that Bible for, boy?"
He said, "I believes It."
Said, "You can't read a word in It."
Said "I believes It anyhow." Said, "I believe It from civer to civer, believe the civer also."
Said, "How you know?"
Said, "It's got 'Holy Bible' wrote on It." Yes, sir. He believed It anyhow, didn't make any difference.
Said, "What would you do," said, "you'd do anything is in that Bible?"
Said, "The Lord told me to do anything, I'd do it."
He said, "What if He'd tell you to jump through that wall?"
He said, "I'd jump."
Said, "You think you could walk through that wall without a hole in it?"
Said, "If the Lord told me to jump, He'd make a hole in it for me." That's right too, brother. Hallelujah. That's the truth. God tells you to jump, He will have the hole there when you get there. Don't you worry about it.

L-132 School, theology... Oh, my. You know what they've done? In its place of the upper room, they substituted a supper room, boiled up some old rooster and sell it for fifty cents a plate, to try to pay the preacher. Brother, if you paid your tithes and done what God said for you to do, you wouldn't have these old soup suppers and things like that. Amen. (Even the anointing oil jumped off, on that.) Let me tell you something, brother: God wants a church that moves in the Divine will of God, based upon THUS SAITH THE LORD. Yes, sir. They've taken all the tarrying in the upper room out, like that. What they've done for the Holy Ghost, they've substituted theology for It. Somebody go out and say, "Well, we believe this and we believe that." Why do you believe it? That ain't in the Bible, nothing about it.

L-133 Somebody said, "What do you think of that priest down here the other day, run away with that woman and married her?"
I said, "He had a right to. He's got as much right to get married as I have or anybody else. You can't find that in the Bible."
Some Catholic boy said, "Is that right, Billy?"
I said, "It's the truth."
He said, "Show it to me."
And I said, "Well, I'll show it to you in the Bible, that marriage is honorable among all. Hallelujah. Paul said, 'Let every man have his own wife.' That's exactly right." I said, "That's a--a Roman hookup, and there's no more truth to it than there is to the bottomless pits of hell." Hallelujah. I believe God's Word. I got to believe something, and This is THUS SAITH THE LORD.

L-136 One time they had a bunch of them preachers out like that, back in the Old Testament, teaching them a whole lot of things; I'll show you what--what kind of an education they had. They was teaching them all about the theology of that day, the school of the prophets. And they come over to see a real prophet one day. The prophet said to one of them, "Go out and pick you a lap-full of--of some pottage now, we'll put on the big kettle; we're going to have a--a great big cooked up pot of peas out here."
And you know what that preacher done? He went out and picked a lap-full of gourds, green gourds off of a wild vine. Boy, a guy that didn't know the difference between peas and a wild gourd, is some preacher, I tell you. He throwed them into the pot and begin to cook it. First thing you know, everybody got a big dish-full of it like that, and said, "There's death in the pot."


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