<TITLE>14. Par 52-55</TITLE>L-52 Now, I'm not a latter day rain; I--I'm just your brother. I don't care whether you're first rain, second rain, middle rain, all rain, or--or no rain, it don't make any difference to me. I love you just the same, and we are brothers.
He said, "Well," said...
All this big church said, "Our best members went over there."
I said, "They did?" I said, "What'd they go for?" I said, "That man came over and pull them away?"
"No."
I said, "Well, what'd they go for? You said they's your best members." I said, "'Cause they were hungry. If you'd quit teaching so much theology and calling each one, "Doctor, Ph.D., D.D.D., and get God back in the Church, get some little old boy with a pair of overalls on, and long hair, go to preaching the Gospel, it'd be different." Now, that's right. I don't care if he don't know his ABC's, or split peas from coffee. Let me tell you, brother, as long as he knows Jesus Christ, he may talk through his nose, and holler "hit" and "hain't," but as long as he's got God with him, something will happen in your church, I'll tell you that. I'd rather have that, than all the Ph.D.s and everything else; that's psychology. I want to know God in the power of His resurrection. That's right. Now...
He said, "I guess you're about right."
I said, "You're not far from the kingdom now." Amen.

L-53 So that's true, friends. We just think all about all the best class: A minister must be a student; he must be this, that, or the other. To me, he must... The Bible requirement, he must be filled with the Holy Ghost. That's the main thing. Now, go look yourself out among you, so many men (even for your deacons) with the Holy Ghost.

L-54 Notice Abraham then and Sarah, as they started down to Gerar. And this little king fell in love with Sarah. And Abraham, think of it now. Oh, my. If this won't kinda hit a holiness pretty hard. Abraham, backslid to begin with... God told him, "Don't you leave the land." The drought come on; he left it anyhow. God told you to do something, you didn't do it, you're backslid. So Abraham was backslid. Any Jew left Palestine was backslid; that's their land of promise.
So he got down there, and he also told a lie. He said, "That's not my wife; that's my sister." Scared of his own hide. Went over there and set down, and let... That king took her over there, 'cause he knowed that he'd have to kill him in order to get his wife, 'cause he'd done fell in love with that great-grandmother. So he--he got over that, and you know that couldn't have be. Well, my, she's a beautiful young woman.

L-55 So they took her over there, and dressed her all up, and put earrings on her, and everything, getting her ready for the wedding the next day. And Abimelech stretched hisself out on the bed that night, after praying awhile, thanking the Lord for his nice bride he was going to have the next day. And the Lord appeared to him, said, "You're just as good as a dead man."
He said, "Why?"
Said, "You got a man's wife."
He said, "Well, Lord, didn't... You know the integrity of my heart. Didn't he tell me that was his sister? And she said, 'That's my brother.'"
"That's the reason I kept you from sinning against Me." Said, "Well, look, her husband is My prophet." Hallelujah. What was he? Now, because you did a little something wrong, you're not lost. Repent; come back to God.


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