<TITLE>18. Par 71-74</TITLE>L-71 Now, sin is not just moral habits you know. Somebody said, "Well, this man smokes, that's a sin." No, it ain't. It ain't...?... for him to lie. It ain't--it ain't no sin for him to lie, for him to steal. That's not sin. That's the attributes of sin. He does that because he's a sinner. If he wasn't a sinner he wouldn't do that. But because he's a sinner, he does that. Now you say, "Well, glory to God, I don't smoke, I don't drink." That don't make you a sinner; that's just the attributes of a Christian. You don't do it because you're a Christian. That's the way it is. And if you do do the other, you're not a Christian, if you do believe, you're not a Chr... you are a Christian. So that's the difference. It's God's provided way.
Jesus said, "He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Everlasting Life, and I'll raise... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] People profess to have it, but their lives prove they haven't got it. You know them by their fruits.
Now, now Elijah, I can imagine him coming off the hill there. An ordinary fellow one day that come down, he had some leprosy, his name was Naaman. He got down there and he got... "Oh, my." He heard, "Faith cometh by hearing, isn't it? Hearing by the Word of God." And he'd tried all the doctors there was over in Syria, and there wasn't none of them could cure him of leprosy. So he heard that there was a little girl got captured. She probably had a good Christian experience, a good--good experience of salvation. She said, "You know, there's a fellow over in our land practices Divine healing by the name of Elijah. Far as I know, he ain't nobody healed nobody with leprosy yet, but I believe you go over there and let him pray for you, you get healed." Oh, my, we need some more of them little girls. That's right.

L-72 All right. Said, "Well, I believe just saddle up and watch the man." He get so many changes of clothes, so many pounds of silver, and so many pounds of gold, take down there.
Now, he wanted Divine healing the way he had made up in his mind, "This is the way I'm going to get it." So he goes up there and drives up before the--Elijah, down there.
And Elijah setting back there, I can imagine, in a little old chair, setting back in his little mud hut down there, a reading some of the Scriptures. Here comes Gehazi in; he said, "Oh, Master."
"What do you want?"

L-73 "Well, there's the great Naaman the captain of the host of Syria out there; he's got leprosy."
"Tell him to go dip in the Jordan seven times."
Said, "Well, aren't you going out to see him?"
"No, I ain't got time; I'm talking to the Lord now."
So he says, "Why, he's reading the Scripture; he's in prayer; he won't come out." He said, "Go dip in the Jordan seven times."
And oh, did he blow up? Oh, my. Just about like people do now. "Oh, I'll never go back to that old place again. Hum. I'll never have nothing to do with that bunch of holy-rollers." Blow up like a frog eating shot and go around like that. "Oh, I'll never have nothing to do with that no more; I just can't believe in that, no, no, no."
That's the reason you're in the condition you are right now. That's right. The Word of God has laid out the way.
"Me dip in them old muddy waters, no, sir. Well, the waters up in Syria is better than they are."

L-74 I heard a person say the other day, "Go on down there and cry and carry on like the rest of them people down there, and boo-who and cry."
I said, If you want to get saved you will."
"Oh," he said, "I'll just never do that."
I said, "Go ahead the way you are then."


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