<TITLE>08. Par 22-24</TITLE>L-22 Friends, I'm telling you: Some people are so narrow minded, you could put a lead pencil between their eyes, it'd blind them. That's right. They're--they'... They just don't look to both sides; they just get some little theory and run away with it. You have to stop and look the thing over.
"According to that then, how'd the first man get here? According to science, he had to have a father and a mother and who was it?" That's what I want to know. When you answer that?" When he answers that I'm ready for it.
He rode on a little bit farther and never said a word. He just set still and rode on a little piece ahead of me, stopped his horse, and come back, and put his arms around me. Said, "I believe you believe that, preacher."
I said, "I sure do."
He looked and said, "I lift up my head unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the LORD." His father was a Baptist preacher; he's a preacher himself. He just wanted see whether I believed it or not. There you are. Oh, brother, I'm telling you. It pays to stand on what you know to be the truth. Yes, sir. The world's a watching. You stand exactly on your convictions and be ready to give a man an answer at any time.

L-23 Like the old saying: "Which was the first, the hen or the egg?" You've heard that now; I believe. The hen or the egg, which is the first? Said, "The hen had to come from the egg, and the--was the egg here first? And the egg couldn't be here without the hen." Well, that's easy. God created the hen, and he laid the egg, and that's the way it started at. Just as easy as any way. That stopped the old questions. Lot of people give those little theories and little things like that. There's really nothing to it.
But now, the main thing, if He was this Son of God... Now, as you start to... It's coming spring time now. And we know that the blood come from the male. We... Won't be long now till the birds are out here, making their nests.
I was watching today, little sparrows take weeds off the street and taken it through the--up in the gutters and things at the hotel, making their nests. There'll be a many a old mother bird that'll make a nest up there and lay a nest full of eggs that'll never hatch, because she hasn't been with the male bird. She can lay the egg... Any can lay an egg, but if she hasn't been with the male bird, it will never hatch. It just lays right there, it'll--it rots right in the nest.

L-24 And the old mother bird can set on that nest until she gets so poor she can't get off the nest. If she'll starve herself to death, a babying those eggs and turning them over, and waiting for them to hatch. But they'll never hatch; there isn't nothing in them to hatch. There's no life in them.
It reminds me of a lot of these old cold formal churches, you take them in, make deacons out them, D.D.'s out of them and everything else, but if they haven't been with Christ Jesus, and borned again by the baptism of the Holy Ghost, they'll never believe a supernatural God. There's nothing in them to believe with. They're dead to start with, just got a form of godliness but denying the power thereof. That's exactly right. The best thing to do is clean out the nest and start over again. That's right. Instead of taking them in by letter and membership, get them down to the altar and let pray through till God put their names on the Lamb's Book of Life, then they'll stay there. Then they'll bring forth fruit when they've been borned again of the Spirit of God.


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