<TITLE>07. Par 21-23</TITLE>L-21 Now, to hurry straight to the point. Now, if the man by his intellects will finally grieve this... The Holy Spirit keeps saying, "You should."
And you say, "Well, I'm too young. Well if I... Well I--I belong to church." But you should be born again. "Well, if I get that kind of experience, I won't be able to do this or do that, or I can't go to this and do that."
Well, you see, the devil will tell you that you're going to lose some good time. You're going to lose some privileges. But he's a lying to you, especially you young people. Oh, my. You don't have to drink. You don't have to smoke. You don't have to run around in these places of amusement. Why, the Holy Spirit is a million times better than all the devil could even offer you. Why, you don't have to get drunk on strong drink to have a big time. Sinners do that, but you don't have to do that. Because I'm been twenty-three years preaching, and I've been drunk the whole twenty-three years on the Holy Spirit. It's a stimulation itself. And it never lets up. And I've always got joy, always got peace, always feel good. The Lord is here. If I am sick in body, He's got me happy in my soul. If things are going good, things are going good in my soul and bad in my body, or vice versa, it makes any difference, God is always there, and I'm always stimulated with a pleasure that's, "Joy unspeakable and full of glory." That's what He does for the believer.
Oh, my. If I can get to Divine healing, it sounds like an old camp meeting. So then to think of how glorious He is and the joy and things that He gives to His believing children.

L-22 Now, if we keep grieving this little fellow called soul, after while it will finally depart from us. The Bible said, "The soul that sinneth, it shall surely die." Now, death doesn't mean what we term it to be; death means separation. If I died here at the pulpit now, I wouldn't be dead. You died there you wouldn't be dead. You'd be dead--we'd be dead to each other. Here's one alive, and the other one gone. Means "to separate..." But we'll be alive if we're Christian in the Presence of God. If we're not, in tortured eternity in the presence of the enemy, the devil.
Now, the soul that sinneth, it shall separate. And after while you don't have that feeling that condemns you when you're doing wrong. One time when I was a lineman many years ago, I was-- been--just started to preaching. And I'd--I'd just been ordained in a Baptist church. And so I was down at the corner just a preaching away the Gospel. And--and there's an old... Talking about your soul. And an old darkie come up, he said, "Parson," said, "do you know what you're soul is?"
And I said, "Well, I believe I do, uncle."
And he said, "It's the little thing that's got four points on it. They're sharp. It sets right in your heart. And when you do something wrong it starts turning." Said, "You let it keep turning it, it'll cut a streak and you can't feel it at all." So I thought that was a pretty good expression. Just keep doing the same thing over. "The soul that sinneth, it shall die."

L-23 But now look, friends, there's only one translation; there's only one word for sin, and that's unbelief. "He that believeth not is condemned already." Drinking whiskey is not a sin. Committing adultery is not a sin. Gambling is not a sin. It's the attributes of unbelief. If you believe Christ and accept Him as your Saviour, you won't do that. That's just the fruits off of your tree. So if you...
Now, not drinking, and not smoking, and not gambling, and not committing adultery, and those evil things, because I do not do them, is not the reason I am a Christian. Those things are attributes because I have accepted Christ and believed Him. So it's either unbelief or belief. That brings it down again to faith.


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