<TITLE>14. Par 53-56</TITLE>L-53 Brother, that's the truth. I may not be able to say it the way I ought to say it, but I say it the way it's in my heart. It may be barefooted, but it's--it's--it's time that man handled the Gospel, not sissified it with a pair of rubber gloves on. Tell them the truth. That's right. They might hate you here, but they'll love you at the judgment bar. That's right. We not sissying around. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is not sissified; it's the greatest thing that a man ever done.
God--God never judges a man now... Somebody say, "Isn't he a man?" He's got shoulders that wide and arms that big. He might be a brute, but he might not have a ounce of man in him. That's right. You don't judge man by muscle, you judge man by character. I seen men that weighed two hundred pounds and would throw a baby out of a mother's arms and ravish her for his own beastly lust. That's right. You don't judge a man by the callous in his hand, but by the bags in the knees of his pants where he's been praying. Hallelujah. That's what we need today, some more men like that, got real godly old fashion Holy Ghost conviction.

L-54 I'd rather have a man like that with my boy if he didn't even know his ABC's, to stand out yonder by a stump somewhere in a broom sedge patch and pray for him till he come through with the Holy Ghost, then have all the teachers there is in the world trying to poke theology in him. Amen. Brother, that's the truth. What we need today is get back to God's provided way for sinners.
There down now, when they marched out under there, they didn't have... They got marching orders; they started out. When they crossed the bridge, went across, God made a bridge through the bottom of the sea for them. When they got over there, when they needed something to drink, the water's all run out, there was a pool there. But the water was bitter; they couldn't drink it. God had a provided tree. He just walked over there, cut the tree down, throwed it into the pool, drink all you want to. God has a provided way.

L-55 We're in the journey and God's got a way for everything we got a need of. Hallelujah. God have mercy. Sure, there's some way to crack this city here for the glory of God. We could only find it. That's right. What can we do? What can I do? God just reveal it.
Now look, there was a way. There stood a bush on the side of the hill. Moses cut the bush down, throwed it in there, said, "Drink all you want to, it's good."
After while when they needed water again, was way out in the desert, God said, "Go, smite the rock," the rock. After they'd seined every, probably every little old place they could find, every oasis, got under every place and raised up the rocks, everywhere, where there was a spring, no water at all, and then, God done the ridiculous. The driest thing there was in the desert, said, "Go, speak to that, there's where the water's at."

L-56 How it seems today, when you think Divine healing, and power of God, and the baptism of the Holy Ghost ought to come out of the Vatican City or something. God takes a bunch of little holy-rollers down on the corner, maybe don't know their ABC's, and there's where the water lays. That's right. He don't deal in pomp and things like that. He's--has mercy on the ignorant.
Peter and John was ignorant and unlearned man. The Bible said they were absolutely ignorant. But they had to take notice to them, they'd been with Jesus. That's the main thing. That's right. They had enough faith to heal a man at the gate called Beautiful. Peter had enough power of God in him to tell Ananias, "You are lying." That's right. He kept back that money. "And Sapphira, you did the same thing." Scared them so bad they had a heart attack and died. They pack--packed them out and buried them. Amen. That same God lives today. That same program is God's program for today.


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