<TITLE>18. Par -</TITLE>L-132-138 Look. You take a fellow that'll start today... I've noticed it on myself, and being of my own nature, an Irishman; I'm always a lot of wind about me anyhow, to cutup and carry on. And every--every so often even my wife say, "Now, Bill..."
I say, "That's right, honey." She'll say...
I tell the kids around there. I say--cutup with them or something, say, "Well now, you know, there was three great men come out of Kentucky."
"Who was that?"
"Well, Abraham Lincoln."
"Yeah."
"Daniel Boone."
"Uh-huh."
"And your father." Something like that.
And she'll say, "Now, Bill, there you go again." Now I have to go off in the closet somewhere and say, "Lord, forgive me; I didn't mean to say it. Do something to me; make me quit that." See?

L-132-140 And every day I--if I do that... Now, we was talking on the word backsliding this morning. When you do that you're backslid. Yes, sir. You got to repent. Is that right? Now, I don't mean to say if you went out in the world and you did this and that, but you done something. You've got to repent and die daily to live in Jesus Christ. So every day--every day, you've got to die every day to live in Christ Jesus.
When I see something... Many times I do things that's wrong. I'll be out, and somebody will say something or other, I may say a little joke about it. Somebody say... Not a bad one; now, I don't believe Christians tells dirty jokes. No, sir. No, sir. That's not even becoming Christians, the Bible said. It said to refuse old profane things like that, and jokes, and jostling, and things like that. No, Christians don't tell those things; Christians has pure thoughts.

L-133-142 But if you don't watch, once in a while you'll have a man... He'll tell a little joke today. And well, he kinda thought it was all right, and he'll just let it go by, and not think no more about it. The next day he tells two little jokes. See? And--and the next thing you know, you're doing something else. And the first thing you know, it leads right back to that old same system again. Is that right? Stay away from the thing. Shun it. And shun that profane babbling.
You let somebody come over... I'll just give you a little example. "Mrs. Doe, do you know what? I seen your husband. And I tell you what, that he's a..." See? And a...
Now, just think... Say, "I don't want to hear it." Just walk on. Won't take much of that, and they'll cut it out. That's right.
"Well, you know what, sister? I'll tell you what happened." Or brother, not only sister, but brother too... See?
"Brother, I'll tell you what happened. You know if we could just get rid of this preacher, if we could do this, or get rid of this deacon, or we do this." Oh, oh. Just--just--just shun that thing.

L-133-145 I think a good little thing you ought to set around on your desk, it's a little thing I seen down in Florida not long ago. It was three little monkeys; and one of them had his hands over his eyes and said, "See no evil"; and the other one had his fingers in his ears, said, "Hear no evil"; and the other one had his hand over his mouth, and said, "Speak no evil." I think that's a good thing don't you? Yes, sir. Oh, my. That's a very good thing.
Just keep your mind pure and on Christ. You can't just say, "Well, now..." Now, you see, if you don't watch, you'll get yourself over into a place, if you keep on thinking that... And don't--and don't think that... You can't live so perfect till you don't make that mistake now. Now, don't you think you'll ever get that way, 'cause you won't. No, sir. You're not sinless, and you'll certainly get off on their track, on this side or on that side.


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