<TITLE>14. Par 42-44</TITLE>L-42 Well, I knowed I wasn't up against no little boy. And he chewed that tobacco, you know, and spit down like that. And I said, "Well, don't spit on my foot, sir."
And so, he said, "Well. See?" Said, "Well, you are all tied up here, aren't you?" He said, "You never did see Him, feeled Him, taste Him, smell Him, or hear Him. And therefore, if none of the five senses won't declare Him. Then there's no such a thing, and quit your nonsense around here, deceiving the people."
I thought, "Oh, my."
He said, "Now, if He is a human God," said, "you believe that He was human?"
I said, "Yes, sir. I believe that Jesus Christ was human."
"And He rose from the dead and He is among man to..."
"Yes, sir. I believe that."
"He rose from that body?"
"Yes, sir. That's--that's right."
"All right. Now, let me see Him. Let me see one of the senses declare Him."

L-43 And oh, he had a pretty stiff argument. And I thought, "O Lord." I had been preaching about three months then. And I thought, "What am I going to do?" I said, "Lord, You told me take no thought what I'd say. That You said You'd add it at that--at that time." And I thought, "Lord, what can I do?" In my heart I was praying. I begin to see something. You know, they say, "Give a cow enough rope, it'll hang itself." So, that's about right. So, I begin to see something moving up, the Holy Spirit moving. I said, "That's true." I said, "I--I certainly... I--I believe you got..."
"Oh," he said, "you're begin to come to yourself, aren't you?"
I said, "Maybe I am." And I said, "I--I tell you; you're really a smart man." I said, "You got a good mind, buddy."
He said, "Well, my mother never raised no fools." And he spit like that.

L-44 And I said, "Well," I said, "you're really a smart man. You got a good mind."
He said, "Sure, I got a good mind. Now, get away from all that kind of stuff."
I said, "Just a moment. Did you say you had a mind?"
He said, "Why, sure."
I said, "I don't believe it."
And he said, "Well, what's the matter with you? You must've lost what you had."
And I said, "No." I said, "If you... Is it a human mind?"
He said, "Why, yes."
I said, "Now, come on. I was gentleman with you; you be gentleman with me." I said, "You wanted to embarrass me. Now, come on. Was it a human mind?"
He said, "Why, yes."
I said, "If it's a human mind, one of the human senses then ought to declare it." I said, "How many senses of the body?"
He said, "Well..."
I said, "You name them. How many is there?"
He said, "Five."
I said, "What are they?"
He said, "Well, we just..."
I said, "You say them like I did." See, I was holding my point to him.
He said, "See, taste, feel..."
I said, "Did you ever see your mind? Smell your mind? Taste your mind? Feel your mind? Or hear your mind?"
"No, sir."
I said, "Then you haven't got any mind? That's right. You're just absolutely..."
And he said--he said, "Well, I know I got a mind."
I said, "I know I got a God too." And that's just exactly. Amen.
And I... One of the boys was standing there, had a rose pinned on his lapel. And I pulled the pin out like that. And I thought I would have a little fun out of him then. I walked over where he was. And I said, "Now, you see what I mean?" And I stuck him on the arm. I...
He said, "Hey!"
And I said, "Did you feel that?"
He said, "Yes."
And I said (he was going to slap me then), so he said--I said, "I didn't feeled it." I said, "I didn't feel it."
He said, "Let me stick you."
And I said, "That's what I thought."
That's right. You accept the same Christ I--I've accept, and now you will feel Him the same way I feeled Him. Just exactly. Let the pin stick the other way.


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