<TITLE>09. Par 28-31</TITLE>L-28 Paul and Silas was up there having a great revival, and the preachers said, "These guys..." The teachers of that day, not all of them, but the teachers of that day and the great high churches said, "These men turned the world upside down. They're impostors."
A little, old fortuneteller set down on the street, said, "These men are servants of God that tell us the way of life."
You know, you can get so ritualistic till even demon-possessed people who have the conception of spirit know more about things than people that's so ritualistic and formal. That's a great big word. It cuts, but it'll do you good. Amen.

L-29 Sometimes we have to get real sick, you know, before we need medicine. Mama used to tell us when we'd take castor oil, and raised a little old country on pone corn bread and black-eyed peas... And every Saturday night we'd all take a bath in an old cedar tub, pour the water in out of a big old teakettle, and all take a bath, the little old boys, and ten of us.
And I remember every one had to take dose of castor oil. I can't stand the stuff yet today. When I'd start say... Mama would tell me... I'd hold my nose; I'd say, "Mama, it makes me so sick. I can't even look at it."
She said, "If it don't make you right good and sick, it don't do you no good." So that's the way the Gospel is sometimes. It don't get you right good and sick, it don't do you much good.

L-30 So Jesus poured the Gospel out from His heart, for He was God's chosen Vessel of the hour. Though the people wanted to say Caiaphas was, though they wanted to say that their church had all the light, no need of anybody else saying anything... But Jesus come strictly... Now listen: Christ came on the Word. But it was just a little different than what they was used to hearing. Because that it didn't dovetail in with their mental conception of the Word, then they refused to hear Him. But God was with Him. God performed miracles and worked wonders. He said, "If you can't believe Me, believe the works that I do; for they testify the Father has sent Me."
The sons of men, way on off, no faith, built upon their churches and things, and no faith left in the Word, only the way they believed it.

L-31 So we find Christ going about healing the sick, speaking to the people, tell them their different ailments, or whatever was wrong, and they said "That's Beelzebub. You see, He's a fortuneteller. We know He comes from the devil," and so forth. But it didn't hinder Christ a bit. He knew He was sent for a Divine purpose, and He was determined to fulfill it, for He knew what the Lord had said.
He went about at the task. Every true servant of God will do the same. If it's no more than a little dishwasher in the kitchen by a housewife (Amen.), she will stand true when she really sees the revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ. No matter what the neighbors say about her 'cause she lets her hair grow out and wears her clothes decent... The neighbors will say she's gone old fashion.
And I'd rather be silly to the world, than be the devil's fool any time. I sure had. I--I think that what... If a person ever has a revelation of God move into their heart, it changes the whole motives, their life, their appetite, from everything they once was has been changed.


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