<TITLE>07. Par 22-25</TITLE>L-22 Just when a revival hits there, "I'll have nothing to do with it. No. Keep away from that." Oh, brother. That was a pretty dark picture, till I happened to think that Joel said, "But I will restore saith the Lord." Then I thought, "Lord, how are You going to do this?" Then another great wind swept out again, and I noticed down beneath these old trees was standing a bunch of little scrubs, just little bitty trees coming up, little scrub fellows.
But every time the wind blowed and caught into those little old trees, they would just scream, and jump, and hold to one another, and that's as David said, "Clap their hands." How they were just as flexible. If the wind blowed over here to Jones, it was all right. If it blowed them over to--to the Assemblies, it was all right. If it blowed them back to the Foursquare, it was all right. They were just as flexible as they could be. Every one was so shaked together. "I will restore, saith the Lord."
I noticed, the strange thing of it, I said, "Well, there's one thing. Them trees are green, but they're flexible. They got life."

L-23 So you see, brother, the Holy Ghost wasn't sent for starch, stiff, dead intellectuals; It was sent for free borned again men and women in the Kingdom of God. The Holy Spirit wasn't sent to the intellectual. It's sent to those who are humble hearts and contrite spirits, no matter if they're educated or not educated, whether they're scrubs, or whatever they are. They're flexible to the Holy Spirit.
And may I ask a question to myself. I thought, "Oh, what makes the wind blow to begin with. Is it just because the wind wants to blow?"
And Something seemed to say to me, "No, it isn't because it wants to blow, but every time them little trees shake and give away, it loosens up the roots so they can grow deeper and get a better hold."

L-24 That is the principle of a revival: a people who are flexible, not to an intellectual talk, but to the coming of the Holy Spirit in the form of a baptism, that gives away to the Word of God and rejoicing and is flexible in the anointing of the Spirit.
What does it do to the Church? It loosens up the roots of the Church, and makes it grow over, and wrap its roots around Jones' church, and Jones wraps the roots around this church. And the first thing you know, together they are one big united forest together. All the devils in hell couldn't shake them then.
But that's the trouble. That's what it is. Now, notice the Scriptural order it says here; "I will give you a new heart." Not a polished up one, not one that's kindly a old... The old lady don't need a facelifting; she needs a birth. That's what she needs.

L-25 The old church needs to be borned again. Now, He never said, "I'll polish up the old heart." He said, "I'll take the old, stony heart out of you and put a new one in." That new heart... That new heart sets right in the middle of your innermost being. The heart is the occupant place of the soul. They didn't know that in science till not long ago.
The old critical science used to say, "God made a mistake when He said, 'As a man believeth in his heart.' The Bible was wrong." Said, "There's no mental faculties in the heart. You believe with your head."
If God... I'm a literalist. I don't want to spiritualize any of the Word. I want to say just what the Word says. I believe It that way. The Bible said, "It's of no private interpretation." And if God would've meant "head," He'd have said, "head." But He said, "heart."
So we find out that a few years ago (about three years ago now, two years ago it's been), on the headlines of the Chicago paper, there come an article, that they found a little compartment in the human heart (It isn't in the animal heart, or no other heart but the human.), a little place where there's not even a blood cell. And they say it is the--the apartment--compartment there that occupies, the soul. So God was right.


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