<TITLE>13. Par 50-53</TITLE>L-50 Yes. That's what we need today is experiences of the new birth. Now, I want you to watch the order that Ezekiel brought it in. He said, "I will give you a new heart, and I'll give you a new spirit, and I'll put My Spirit in you." I want you to watch; there's three of it. A new heart. "I'll take the old stony heart away." That's that old different heart you have. "And I'll give you a new spirit." Now, many times, and there's been a terrible mistake, the people has thought sometimes that that new spirit was the Holy Spirit. But it isn't; it's a new spirit. God gives you a new... Why, you couldn't even get along with yourself with your old spirit; how you going to get along with the Holy Ghost? God had to give you a new spirit so you could get along with His Spirit. And sometimes people...?... "A new heart, a heart of flesh, so you will receive it; then a new spirit in that heart, and then I'll put My Spirit in that." You see? New heart, new spirit, "and My Spirit," three things He spoke of.

L-51 Now, many times we try to make that thing just say... Well, as soon as you get the new spirit, you quit your stealing, you quit your lying, things like that. You say, "Oh, hallelujah, I got it." And you find out the first time anyone crosses your path a little bit, oh mercy, what a difference. Sure. You blow up like a frog eating buckshot. But let me tell you, brother. That's the reason you never got God's Spirit. That's true. "Oh," you say, "he stepped on my toe; I'll just not put up with that." All right. That shows what you got in you. That's true. "I'll put a new spirit in you, and then I'll put My Spirit in you."
Now, the heart is in the center of the emotions of the human being. Your heart is the middle of you. That's exactly right. So God puts a new heart in the middle of the old man, then He puts a new spirit in the middle of the new spirit, or heart, and puts His Spirit in the middle of the new spirit.

L-52 Now, it's all just exactly like the mainspring in a--in a--a famous watch. You see? They got a little click over here working, a little click over here working. It's little wheels a turning. But it's all controlled by the mainspring. Now, you could have...
The trouble of it today, we've left off the Mainspring, brother. We've tried to make ourselves Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterian, build great churches, say, "Looky here what a fine watch I got. Look at what a fine stem it's got on it. Look at the face out of it; why, it's got rubies in it; it's got jewels in it." It isn't worth a dime if it don't keep time. Right.
That's what's the matter today. We try to make Methodists, and Baptists, and Presbyterian, and Pentecostals. And we try to get the prettiest church, the best pastor, the smartest man, and everything. And our church just don't keep time with God's Bible. That's what's the matter. See? You left off His Spirit.

L-53 Hasn't Jesus said, "Have you heard that the Stone that the builders rejected has become the Chief of the corner?" Certainly, the Mainspring...
Now, when the mainspring is in the watch, and this watch is a--not a self-winding, it's a God-winding watch. And the only thing you do to--to a self-winding watch, the only way you do, is your emotions with the watch is what winds it. And your emotions towards the Word of God is what winds you up with the Holy Ghost, if you're taking God's Word. There it is, the new watch.


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