<TITLE>13. Par 125-134</TITLE>L-125 Now, we have an old fashion custom of altar call, bringing the people up to the altar. God be praised for that. That's a good old fashion thing that the Methodist church started years ago. And it had a... It was good, and it's still good today.
But it ain't necessary that you come to the altar to become a Christian. They never had it during the Bible days. They just counted them as believers. They never made a altar call, all the time, in the apostolic age. There's no altar calls. They said, "As many as believed was baptized." Is that right? They become believers.

L-127 When you are thoroughly convinced that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and in your heart, now, not in your imagination, but in your heart something echoes down there, and said, "Now, I am saved." that's all you need, right there, brother. Confess it out, and let your words go out. And then watch, watch your life from then on. No more than a corn could bear cockleburs, neither could that man bear evil fruits. He will have to bear good fruits.
Jesus said, "He that heareth My Words, and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Everlasting Life, and shall not come into condemnation but's passed from death unto Life." That's because you believed, not imagine, but you believe It. It become a thought in your heart. The next thing, you expressed It as a confession. "He that will confess Me before men, him I'll confess before My Father and the holy Angels." Then something anchors. That's the reality.

L-129 But what we have been taught, friend, has throwed us off of the line. We've been taught... The Methodist people taught, in the beginning, they said, "Brother, when they got to a place they could shout, they had sanctification; they had it all made." But you come to find out, it didn't work very good. That's right.
When the Nazarenes could shout, and raise their hands up, run up-and-down the aisle, said, "That's It." And many of them shouted and run up-and-down the aisle, went out and lived any kind of a life, so they knowed that wasn't It.
The Pentecost come along, when God begin to restore back the gifts to the church, begin to speaking with tongues. They said, "This is It. It's got It now. We're all set out." But they found out they didn't have It. That's right. People speak with tongues and live any kind of life.

L-132 Brother, what it is, be sure. Now, shouting is all right. I believe in sanctification; yes, sir, not mine, but His. See? That's right. Not my holiness, but His, when He, the Holy Spirit, puts His holiness in here, it's His holiness, not mine. I'm a sinner, but He's the Lord.
Now, I believe in sanctification, believe in shouting, believe that a man that's borned again will give some kind of a demonstration. That's right. I believe in speaking with tongues. I believe in interpretation of tongues. I believe in healing the sick. I believe in prophesying. I believe in working of miracles. But all of those things are something that follows after you have received the Lord Jesus Christ.

L-134 What we've been trying to say, "When he shouts, he's got It. When he prophesies, he's got It." But that ain't what he got. To take an apple off the tree, don't mean you got the tree. See? You got an attribute of the tree. And that's what's caused the trouble. But when Christ is once seasoned into the heart, all these other things just automatically take place.
Right now it's coming wintertime. All the trees will shed their leaves except the oak. he will hold its leaves. When springtime comes, they're old dead leaves. You don't have to go out and pick off the leaves so the new ones can come on. Just let the new life come up, and the old ones drop off and new ones come on.


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