<TITLE>12. Par 45-49</TITLE>L-45 What the church needs today is a opening up and get green. Don't try to be... "I'm Doctor Ph.D.. My pastor is a..." What does that mean, anyhow? "D.D." you say... In the Bible D.D. means "dumb dog" And I don't think it's changed very much since then. That's right. Brother, what--we don't need D.D. We need a Holy Ghost experience in the church of the living God. You know that is true. We need to be greened up, livened up. If Life makes you act green, then go ahead and get Life. That's right.
The Lifeline hasn't been cut. The caterpillars hasn't been eating. Oh, brother, one of these days God's going to come down with His insect powder; He's going to spray that old stump. And she's going to growing just as sure as the world, she's going to do it. Yes, sir. And God will restore all the years that the locust and the caterpillars eat up.

L-46 Now, on the day of Pentecost they had one hundred and twenty brand new sheepskin bottles. That's right. Not goat skin, but sheepskin, it makes the best. Yes, sir. And one hundred and twenty green bottles was set in a upper room, all plenty of them stretching and growing pains. They had their hearts open to catch everything God would pour down. Yes, sir. Today we say, "I'll go over there, but I'll tell you what; I don't believe. I don't care how much he brings it out of the Bible; I'll never believe it." Well, you old cowhide and goat skin. What's the matter anyhow?

L-47 We need something to work on. Before the Holy Ghost can ever go to work, He's got to have something to work with. You know that's right. Oh, this Pharisaic age that we're living in: "I tell you, I'll never let a seventh grade dummy tell me. I come from so-and-so; I got a college education." But you haven't got gumption enough to know how to control it maybe. That might mean a whole lot different, brother. I tell you; Paul had one too, but he said he forgot everything he ever knew in order to find Christ. The trouble of it, the church needs today, we need to dump out a whole lot of stuff so we can be filled up again.
Here was that hundred and twenty green bottles setting up there. And all of a sudden there came New Wine from heaven like a rushing, mighty wind. It filled those little old green bottles until they got growing pains, and they just bounced all over the country saying, "This is that." Brother, if this ain't that, I'm going to keep this till that comes. That's one thing sure.

L-48 This marvelous grand Holy Ghost experience of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, His Person and Being working in us, through us, all around, but what a thing it is; what a wonderful thing it is. It's got Life in it. The church of the living God is full of Life. It's the unfermented wine. It's still got the bacteria germ in it that's filling it, and growing it, and pushing it, and shoving it. That's what God's a doing. The experience of Christ...

L-49 As a game warden, I used to walk by a little place where I--I thought was the happiest spring I ever saw in my life. That little old spring was just a bubbling and a jumping all the time. So one day when I was passing by, I set down. I said, "Little spring, what makes you so happy? Why are you always a bubbling and going on?" I said, "Maybe it's because deers drink from you."
If he could speak back, he'd say, "No, Brother Branham. Huh-uh."
I'd say, "Maybe because bears drink from you, make you happy."
Say, "No, Brother Branham, it isn't that."
I say, "Well, maybe because that I drink from you."
It would say, "No. That isn't it."
"Well, what makes you bubble?"
If he could speak back, he'd say, "Brother Branham, it isn't me bubbling. It's something behind me pushing me and making me bubble." And that's the way with every borned again son and daughter of God. It's not your emotions; it's something pushing in you, giving you the bubbling. Right. True.


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