<TITLE>09. Par 30-32</TITLE>L-30 Then in talking with the minister, I said, "Watch her." Now, he was trying to get her prepared so that I could go pray for her. And I believe the woman would have been healed. I said, "Watch her at the end of the road. That's the only way. 'Cause she's just committed that sin and went to reasonings instead of listening to her soul. But that soul will catch up with her someday."
And when she come time to die, yet, the pastor with her, the people in the room and everything just as normal as, thought she was all right, absolutely believed that she was all right... And when she come time to die, when... The mental faculties is operated by blood and nerves, which is in the brain, that will perish at your death. Your mental faculties and your reasonings will pass away, 'cause reasonings could not come in the Presence of God. It'd reason with God. It's the soul that lives.
And now, when her... The blood ceased to go through her brain cells, and the nerves ceasing, her memories, her--her reasonings begin to cast away. Then what happened? That soul that she'd grieved away, that had been dead to her all these years, begin to come up to her, and she screamed, "My God, I'm lost!"
And the pastor said, "Now, here, here, here, dearie."
She said, "I'm lost!"
And the doctor ran and said, "She's getting hysterically," and give her a hypo. And he--she still screamed it out. And he give her another hypo till finally dying with this on her lips, "I'm--I'm lost! I'm lost!...?..." A hypo stopped the testimony. It sealed her lips to other mortal ears. But that soul that realized, that had been grieved away, it'll haunt her as long as there's an eternity.

L-31 So remember, don't go by reasoning. You be sure that you're right. And there's a way of doing that, and that's accepting Jesus Christ and being borned again of the Spirit of God, when your entire soul testifies the Word of God is right. And stay with it and believe every Word, 'cause your spirit bears record with His Spirit then. And the thing... If... Here it is, get it. "If you love the world or the things of the world, the love of God's not even in you," says the Bible. And now, that's not talking about Lutheran or Plymouth Brethren. I'm speaking about holiness people, Pentecostals and the rest. That's right.

L-32 Notice it. Elijah, he knew where he was standing before God; therefore, he was fearless. And when he got ready to go, and he put his blanket, or his robe upon Elisha... Elisha cut loose every shoreline, everything, and killed the ox, and burnt the sacrifice and separated from everything to follow God. That's the way we've got to do it. That's the only true way there is of coming to the Lord Jesus Christ. Exactly right.
Burn up the things behind you. Cut loose everything. If your associates, or associations, rather, is taking you into pool rooms, or taking you into beer parties, taking you into card parties, or all these other places, cut the thing loose when you come to Christ. Get rid of every bit of it. Come to Him with a holy hands lifted up, saying, "God, be merciful to me a sinner." No matter how long you come to belong to church, that doesn't have nothing to do with it. So many cruel things are happening to people today, and they are going out in that shape because they have trusted in the church instead of Christ.


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