<TITLE>04. Par 13-15</TITLE>L-13 Intellectuals have very little to do with it. I'm not trying to support illiteracy. But education has taken the place in the church of the Holy Spirit. Education's all right, but that is not God's program.
If education was to take the place, Christ would established schools when He was on earth. Christ never did establish a school. But Christ established a Church, and not a Church of intellectuals, but out of a bunch of illiterate fishermen, who were willing to listen to the Holy Spirit and be led accordingly.
Now, the Church doesn't need a group of intellectuals. The Church needs a birth. The Church needs to be borned again. If the Holy Spirit is going to lead the Church, then the Holy Spirit will lead the Church, not according to some ritual, but according to the Bible. So this is the rules He laid down in the beginning.
The Church needs a baptism. The Church doesn't need a polishing up, a better scholar in the pulpit, a better dressed man, a better dressed congregation. It needs a new heart, is what the Church needs. It needs the Holy Spirit. It needs that great unction that changes men and women's lives. How God promised that He would take the old stony heart out and put a new heart in you. Then when this happens, a change has been made.

L-14 Now, in preaching these things, even to the Pentecostal people... And we have very little to brag about. For in where we have tried to have a Pentecostal free move of God. We have become to a place a bunch of colonized cults almost, just a place of confusion and discord.
What ought to happen here this afternoon? There should be every Pentecostal church in the city jammed into some big stadium out here somewhere. And if it wasn't for little petty indifferences among the ministers and the people, it would be that way.
"A new heart will I give you," not "I'll polish the old one up," but, "I'll give you a new one." Now, you... It's hard. We think it's hard to preach truth amongst Baptists and Presbyterians, the intellectuals; but it's twice as hard to preach the truth before Pentecostals. That's right.

L-15 Now, the Bible has told us that you can't put new wine in old bottles. That once stumbled me. I couldn't understand. A bottle as I know it here, and we in America, is a glass affair. And what difference would it make if we put wine in the new bottle or the old bottle?
But when I was in the Orient, I learned that the bottle in the Bible day was not a glass bottle. It was a bottle that was made out of animal skin. They taken the skin from the animal and tanned it. Now, as long as the--the oil from the animal skin is in the skin, it's flexible. But when the skin gets old, and set, and dry, then it isn't flexible any more. Bless the Lord. This skin becomes dry and sets, then it won't give no more. And to put new unfermented wine, that's got life in it yet, into a skin like that, wouldn't be wisdom. When the wine begins to ferment and to stretch, the skin bursts, and you lose both bottle and wine.
Jesus said in another place, "Cast not pearls before swine." You lose your pearls.
And you take a church that is so set in its way, let it be Baptist, Pentecostal, or whatever it is, that it's so set, that when the New Wine comes in, and the Wine comes by the Word... And that New Word begins to say, "The days of miracles are here again."
That old dried up skin will, when that New Wine begins to take a hold, it can't move, because it's set in what it believes; it won't move, and the skin busts open and pop open..." [Brother Branham illustrates the sound of a skin popping open--Ed.]...?... I don't believe in miracles." There you are.


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