<TITLE>13. Par 53-56</TITLE>L-53 America... Billy Graham here not long ago was having a certain meeting. He went through, and he said he had thirty thousand converts, or twenty thousand, I believe in six weeks. He went back six weeks later, and couldn't find twenty of them. What's the matter? Because they stand up and say, "I accept Christ as my personal Saviour," and set down, emotionally worked up.
That's the reason we can't have a revival. You've got to get back to God's faith again in the Bible, where men and women become borned again and regenerated by the Holy Ghost. Then that man can't help from being a Christian. He's a Christian by birth. That's right.

L-54 You don't have to pledge him, and give him cards, and visit him. If he's borned again, brother, you almost have to bar the door to keep him out. Amen. You've got the cart before the horse, brother. That's what's the matter. You've got to get Christ first. In the stead of the church you got to put Christ first. That's what we need today. That's what America needs today. It's what the whole nation, the whole world needs today is a old fashion revival, stirring, God-sent revival.
Cain, sure he was religious, just as religious as the other one was. Religious is a covering. Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, when they found out they were naked, they made themselves a religion. Find out, just as soon as Adam found out he was--he was separated from God, in the stead of trying to find God, he tried to hide from God. That's the nature of man today. It's still his nature. Instead of coming down confessing saying, "I've been a church member for ten years. I know nothing about God," and try to hide behind the name of a church. That's right. We all do it. We, Methodists, we Baptists, we Presbyterian, we Pentecostals, we all do it. And we're guilty before God. Amen. It's the truth. Yes, sir.
Now, I want you to notice. Instead of coming out, and it ought to have been Adam running through the garden, hollering, "Father, Father, where are You? Father, Father."
It was the Father running through the garden, hollering, "Adam, Adam, where art thou?"

L-55 When he found out he had to meet God, he made him a apron out of fig leaves. How typical of today. A apron was a covering. "Religion" means, "a covering." And he made his apron out of fig leaves. He placed it around him, and it was all right as long as Eve and Adam was standing back in the little church back there talking about, "Well now, when God calls again, we'll go out." But when they had to face God, they found out fig leaf religion wouldn't work. And every man and woman that's hiding behind some church creed will find out in the day of their death, fig leaf religion won't work. God said... He said, "Well, I'm naked." He knew it when he had to meet God. Said, "I'm naked."
Said, "Who told you you was naked?" Oh, then they begin to pass the buck one to the other, as the street expression. "The woman Thou givest me, and this, that, and the other."

L-56 And God went and got some skins and gave them aprons. In order to get skins He had to kill something. Something had to die a substitutionary. And the only thing in the world... It's not the Methodist, Baptist or Presbyterian church that'll cover your sins. God killed something: His Son, Calvary. That's their covering, the only covering there is for the human being. Accept it. No matter how irradical it...?... the religion of Jesus Christ has always been considered fanaticism to the world. I'll prove that to you in a few minutes. That's right.
Notice him now. Here they are out there a worshipping, both of them, both sincere, both just a screaming up to God, giving Him praise and everything. Cain was a long ways from being a communist. He was a believer.
Now, looky here. If the only thing you have to do is to believe that God is, then Cain was just. There you are. Kinda going to let that soak down a little bit, 'cause I want it to go under the fifth rib on the left side. See?


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