<TITLE>10. Par 35-38</TITLE>L-35 The intellectual, the old lady they give her a facelift; she's still the same old woman. The old man they give him a facelift; he's just the same old man. "I'll turn my new page on--on New Years, and I'll start life new. I'll throw away my pipe," and pick it up the next day. See? That's just you. It isn't a facelifting; it's a birth the church needs.
Now, you can't preach this in the old church. She won't stand it. Jesus said that in Luke about the 5th chapter about the wine in the bottles. He said, "You can't put new wine in old bottles. If you do, they'll perish."
That used to wonder me. That used to startle my--my boyish mind when I used to think, how could the bottle perish? Now, what we call the bottle, being old it makes no difference, because it's glass. But in Jesus' time, what He was speaking of, was the bottle that they used then, which was made out of an animal hide. And an animal hide has been tanned. And when the animal hide was old, while... When it was new and young, it just have been tanned, it was flexible. But when it got old, it got dry.
Now, many of you people know what a hide is when it gets dry. It gets old and dry, and it's all shrunk up and real hard. Now, if you put new wine in that, it hasn't got any life in it. It's going to burst.

L-36 It's just like trying to preach the baptism of the Holy Ghost in the real genuine power of the--of the resurrection. It's trying to place that before the people. When you do, what happens if you put it in? The new wine's got life. And the new wine is still fermenting. Oh, I hope you see it.
The new life is fermenting. The new wine is still fermenting. And if it's in a new flexible bottle, where the oil of the animal is still in the skin, when the new wine goes to pushing out, the skin will stretch. And otherwise, when the Bible said, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever," the new skin will say, "Amen," stretch right with it.

L-37 And when the new wine said, "That's the baptism of the Holy Spirit, I am the Life of God that's working in you," the new skin will say, "Amen," stretch out to it.
When the new wine says that the Holy Ghost is sufficient for our healing today, the new wine will stretch itself out, the wine being the Word. And when It says that, then the new bottle will say, "Amen," stretch out to it.
But what will the old bottle do? "Days of miracles is past and gone."
Then what are we doing? What are we accomplishing? We are... He said, "The old bottle will perish and the wine will perish with it." And it's almost like casting your pearls before swine. They turn and tramp under the people. Do you see it?

L-38 Now, Christ doesn't anoint ministers to preach the Gospel just to have it return back to Him void. But He expects you to receive the Word. And in receiving the Word, be ready. Take that old cowhide you been living in over there in that old formal condition and swap it off for a sheepskin that's flexible to the Word of God. And everything the Bible says, you'll say, "Amen."
But it must come from the Bible, for the new wine only ferments wine. It only verifies the--the elements that's in there. The yeasts only presses forth the bulb of the alcohol, which makes it a bursting profession, as the yeast bursts it's little bubble to make it a more perfect, to give it the better taste, to give it the better substantial holding, to make it more stronger, to make it so it can't sour. Amen.


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