<TITLE>17. Par 172-182</TITLE>L-172 You know, when you're young, they claim you have growing pains when you're growing. You know what I mean. It means you're getting bigger, a little. You know, you take your arms will hurt. And your legs will hurt when you're growing, kids. I had it. I was getting bigger all the time. Oh, my.
Sometimes we have growing pains when we get to be men and women when we're born in the Kingdom of God, Christ. But the thing about that, it hurts; the thing about This, It just makes you joyful and happy. It's growing pains. You're going out, getting bigger, getting to be a bigger man now, what you used to be. You can look over things.
Not you just got wider shoulders; that don't mean nothing about it. But you're wider in here (See?), not across here. In here, here's where you're supposed to spread out, get bigger, in your heart on the inside. When Christ comes into the heart, then He comes into the mouth, then He comes into the eyes, and He comes into the mind.
He comes into the mouth. He makes you talk different. You don't talk like you used to. Christ got in your mouth. Done growed now from your heart, your love you had for Him, till you can bridle your tongue. Brother, that's a great thing.
Then the next thing you know, it grows into your eyes. The next thing you know, you find out, that old lustful things you used to look at, you'll turn your head. You're growing.
Then the first thing you know, you still turn your head, but you're thinking. See? After while, it grows into your mind; you don't even think about it no more. Then you're just a great big boy then. You're coming into a full matured man living for the Lord. So then you are in Christ then, a new creature.

L-178 Now, when these apostles begin to receive that, oh, they was so happy! They thought, "Oh, my, isn't this wonderful." And the Holy Ghost had filled them, and they were out there healing the sick and doing wonders.
And there was a little fellow by the name of Peter and John. They passed through the gate, and was Beautiful, in the 3rd chapter there. And they...

L-180 We had more time to deal on it; but we haven't. We got to hurry now, to get down for a few verses. I start a background and never get to the chapter that I was talking about. So then, you get into doing it. It's just so good. It's every bit good. And it's just everywhere you find it, you just don't want to leave it. It's just...
Listen, I've read the Bible for twenty-three years. And if I hadn't read but one line, I could still be preaching on that one line with a new text every night, new thing every night. See, it's just so real. It's inspired. If it's inspired, there's not... It has no end. It's for everlasting to everlasting. If one Word, "I am the Lord," you could preach on that for a hundred million years, and it'd be just as fresh as the day it was spoke. See, it's just endless. It just goes on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on. There's no end to It; you just keep on going.

L-182 Now, listen to this. Now, the disciples, they had a wonderful time. And Peter went out to the gate called Beautiful, him and John. They'd been up there praying, having a wonderful time. And here laid a man with a little... He was lame. You know what a lame person is, kind of--kind of, can't hardly walk. Maybe had arthritis or something. "He was lame from his mother's womb.
Peter looked, going by there talking with John, said, "Now, we're going into the temple to worship." Saying, "John, now aren't we having a wonderful time?" Or something like that: glory in their heart. Had to kind of watch what they was saying, 'cause the audience and the people around was so perse... They was so persecuted.


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