<TITLE>16. Par 66-69</TITLE>L-66 Want to show you a little parable here right quick. A lot of people only seen three crosses at Golgotha. There was four. There was four crosses. The cross was a tree. Is that right? Here was Jesus, and the thief on the right, the thief on the left. Now, here was Judas went and hung himself on a sycamore tree. Is that right? Just as much cross as Jesus was on. The Bible said, "Cursed is he that hangeth on a tree." Jesus was hung on a tree as the cross to take away--made a curse for us...?...
Now, look. Here was the son of perdition come from hell returning back to hell. Here was the Son of God coming from heaven, returning back to heaven: Perfectly Judas and Jesus the reincarnation. Judas and Jesus, both of them brothers: One was the pastor. The other one was the treasurer.
And this...?... This one thief on the left, said, "If..." The question mark on God's Word. "If Thou be, save Thyself and us. Show your power. Let's see You do a miracle now. If Thou be..."

L-67 And this other one said, "Lord, remember me when You come into Your Kingdom." There was Judas taken with him, the unrepented sinner back to hell, Christ taking with Him repented sinner. "Today shalt thou be with Me in paradise." Perfect, the Gospel preacher, the Church that believes. God withdraws the circumstance. They believe right anyhow, go right on.
Now, notice. We'll hurry through, 'cause we haven't got too much time. Let's take a little while. Now watch.
From Cain and Abel here starts two trees. Now, watch them coming up now. Here comes two trees start right there. Now, we're right into them today. I want you to get this. Right in them today... The first thing you know that started up.
It's always been pro and con. Now, if you look in the ark, you'll find in the antediluvian destruction, there was a dove and there was a crow. Both of them was birds, both of them in the same place, the lower part was for the creeping things, the middle part was for the fowls. And Noah was--was right in the same category. That dove... He say, "Well, I got wings."

L-68 Crow will say, "I have too." They were both fowl, but one of them was of God, and the other one was of the devil. They turned one loose, and here's how they could tell by the appetite. The crow was satisfied to fly from one old dead carcass to another one and eat. That's just like the man who confesses to be a Christian, today, and still smokes, drinks, and runs around like they used to. I don't care how much church you belong to. You're still a sinner in the sight of God.
So when they turned that dove loose, she couldn't stand that smell. She had to come back. Why? The nature of that dove, the reason the dove couldn't eat those things, it has no gall. It can't digest them things. And that's the way a Christian that's borned again, the gall of bitterness is taken away, and you can't digest the world no more (See?), or things of the world. It's all dead. Watch some more.

L-69 There's Esau and Jacob. Let's take them just for a moment. Why, Esau was way better more--more of a gentleman, Christian-type man that we'd call today, than Jacob. Why, sure he was. Esau taken care of his old, blind daddy. He herded the cattle. He went out hunting and got some deers and fed his old daddy. And Jacob was just a little old fellow that laid around home, kind of lazy.
But what was the difference with Jacob? Jacob had recompense to God, the birthright. Is that right? A perfect type today... Somebody say, "Well, here's a good man. He goes to church, and he goes every Sunday. He's a good payer in the church. He belongs to the best church in the city. He educates his children. He does that." That's very fine. That's good as a citizen, but, brother, that has nothing to do with Christianity, not a thing. You go to church, have your name on every church book there is in Palm Beach or--or Florida. It'll never bring you one bit of good. Although the preacher can half mast the flag and say you went to heaven, but except you're borned again, you're lost.


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