<TITLE>05. Par 16-19</TITLE>L-16 And Abel come, not nothing beautiful. He had a little old lamb out of the flock. He didn't work up. And he didn't do something or other. He didn't try to make big, fine churches. He didn't build this, that, and the other. He just went out there and wrapped a grapevine around a lamb's neck and come pulling it. I don't guess they had any hemp in that day, rope. So they just come with a grapevine, pulling a little old lamb: what a sight. Picked him up and laid him up on the rock. I don't guess they had a lance in that day, so they just took a sharp rock, pulled his little head back and begin to beat him in the throat with it. What a sight. The blood begin to sprinkle and bathe his little wool over like that, and the poor little thing dying, bleating. God looked down from heaven and rewarded him.

L-17 What was it? Spiritually minded by election, knowing that the earthly things doesn't please God, he offered life and blood. What did it speak of? Come four thousand years to man, the Lamb of God, with a rope around His neck was led away to Calvary. And there on the cross, the Rock of Ages bleeding, His wool, His hair dropping... Blood dropped onto His breast.
As Billy Sunday said, there was an Angel setting in every tree saying, "Just pull Your hand loose. Point and we'll change this thing here." But He was the Son of God.
And when he was dying, when this little lamb was dying, the lamb was speaking in another language, bleating, hollering. He couldn't get it. 'Course Adam... Cain... Or Abel couldn't understand it.

L-18 And when Jesus died on the cross, He was forsaken by man here on this earth. And He spoke in another language. When His rocks... was saying, "My God, why has Thou forsaken Me?" God... Church, from that day to this, it's moved up them same seeds, coming right out the same thing. Always through blood, through Spirit.
Oh, must I be carried home to heaven on a flowery bed of ease while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas.
My, think. There them trees... Watch them vines as it come up, brethren. There's... In the ark... Wish we had time, but the clock's getting away. Looky here. In the ark there was a crow and a dove. And they both set on the same roost. And one of them was of the antichrist, and the other one of the Christ. The only way you could judge them is by their nature, by their habits. The crow was willing to eat the old dead carcasses of the world, and stay out there, but the dove had to come back. Why? The dove didn't have no gall. Something had happened to him. He couldn't digest the old rotten things of the world.

L-19 And so is it with every man that's borned of the Spirit of God, that's elected, can't digest the things of the world. He will come to the Father in faith. When he hears an old fashion Holy Ghost meeting, you couldn't tie him away if you had to. Right. Borned of the Spirit of God...
A dove hasn't got no gall, no bitterness. He don't go around saying, "The days of miracles is past, and they didn't come through the right kind of a seminary or cemetery." It's all the same thing anyhow.
I always felt sorry for a incubator chicken, just like I did a seminary preacher. A little old incubator chicken just chirp, chirp, chirp and ain't got no mammy to go to. That's just about the way with a preacher hatched out by a machine, through theology (Right.), and knows no more about God than a Hottentot does about a Egyptian knight. Amen.
Going to call me a holy-roller anyhow, so you might as well get started right now. All right. You say, "That's pretty strong for a Baptist." Well, I'm one Baptist that got the Holy Ghost. That's right.


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