<TITLE>13. Par 36-40</TITLE>L-36 You just get to an old rut all the time. Let's break out into the deep, play out, don't be shore bound. Everybody's tied up with a certain thing; they're all right. But you tied yourself around something: "This is what we Methodists believe. This is what we Baptists believe. Here's what we Pentecost believe." But here's what the Bible says. Amen. That's what... I believe, what He says. I still could belong to the Methodist, or Baptist, or wherever it was, but I want to believe what the Bible says, because the Holy Spirit in you will make you believe it. If it ever comes in, It believes it Itself. For you yourself are reckoned dead. Amen. Your life is hid through God, in Christ, sealed by the Holy Ghost. Then you say the devil got you. He couldn't get you. You got him. It's just vice versa.

L-37 Now, Ahab goes over there now--I mean, Jehoram goes over, and makes his alliance, and out they go for seven day's journey out in the wilderness. They hadn't halfway got there yet. So the first thing you know, they was out of water. The water supply was cut off, because of lack of prayer.
Don't you think that's a whole lot around Phoenix, and everywhere else today, across the nation, the Holy Spirit type--the water's a type of the Holy Spirit, the smitten rock. "God so loved the world, He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish."
As the water went to a perishing people, to keep them from dying out of the smitten rock, so does the Holy Spirit go to a perishing people. You believe it?

L-38 You know, I seen a picture here not long ago in a big museum of that rock giving its water. If it wasn't... It was as bad as what I've told you the other night about Adam and Eve. Why, there was a little bitty old drip falling down, a little bitty thing about the size of my finger. If I'd be right thirsty, I could drink that thing dry myself. But look, they watered two million people, beside camels, cattle, and things. Brother, it come forth in a gusher. The Holy Ghost just don't sprinkle a little bit; It baptizes altogether. Lose all conscious of everything, when the Holy Spirit baptizes. Brother, you could swim in it. Amen.

L-39 Now, as a little boy, I used to tell my daddy I could swim. I was in a little pond; he took me back there, a little culvert. I passed by here sometime ago, a little old--about that deep, you know, and he wanted to see me swim. I got up there in the sassafras bushes, and took off my clothes, come down and jumped up on a little box, and held my nose (I was about seven years old.) hit that mud, and just splash every way, till I come, mud, just crawling up-and-down through it, my little old stomach dragging in the mud. He set there; I seen that discouraged look on his face. When I looked up, he said, "Get out of there, and get you a bath, and go home." See? I... That's just about the way it ought to be said to some of these mud crawling Christians too. That's right. That's exactly. They're crawling along in the mud.

L-40 One day my uncle got me out on the back of a boat in about thirty foot of water. I kept popping off about I could swim. He took the oar and knocked me off in the water. I had to prove it then.
Sometimes God just lets you get a good case of diseases, some sort like that, somewhere, a disease that the doctor says he could do no more for you, to keep you from mud crawling, till he tries to go to swimming. Amen. Let something happen sometime in your family, something come up, so you really have to swim, get out in the gusher.


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