<TITLE>08. Par 30-33</TITLE>L-30 Now, you can't hardly get the message to the old form of believing. Jesus spoke of that long time ago in the Bible. He said, "You can't put new wine in old bottles." I often wondered what that meant. What did our Lord mean when He said, "Put new wine in old bottles?" Well, I thought what difference does it make. Because, today, we only have glass bottles. And whether it is new or old it doesn't make any difference. But when I visit the eastern countries, the orient, I find out that the water bottles of that day was made out of animal skin. And then, when the animal skin was fresh and a new skin... Or when it got old and dry and set, to take new, unfermented wine and put it in there with that new wine, unfermented, still had the germ of life in it. And when it begins to ferment, why, the old bottles that were so set and stiff, why, there was a explosion. It could not hold it, and it would just burst open. And you'd... The wine would perish and the bottle would perish.

L-31 Now, that's the way it is today. You can't take this brand new, heaven-born, Pentecostal wine and mix it up with them old time creed of some sort, some old set-in-the-way, dyed-in-the-wool. Why, if you do, you go to preaching about the baptism of the Holy Spirit, Divine healing, and signs and wonders, that old skin will try to stretch and it'll blow: "The days of miracles is past. I can't stand it no more. I can't even stand through this sermon." Blowie, out the door it goes. That's right. You can't do it. But to put new Pentecostal wine, you have to have new bottles. Right. And new bottles is new skin; it's still got animal oil in it. And that new skin will stretch. And when you begin to preach the baptism of the Holy Spirit, the love of God, Divine healing, signs and wonders, a new skin... When the Bible said, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever," the new skin will say, "Amen." That's right. It'll stretch out.
The old skin will say, "Dr. Jones don't--don't teach it like that." See? There you are. That's the difference. What we need today is a brand new set of Pentecostal hides. That's right. To preach a Pentecostal message...

L-32 Now, Pentecost is not at your denomination now. Pentecost is an experience. It's not a denomination. Pentecost is what you receive. That's right. It's for the Methodists, the Baptists, the Lutheran, the Catholic; just as much Pentecost, and sometimes a whole lot more, than those who call themselves Pentecost. That's right. It's an experience, when you can take it. Oh, and when that new life begins to work, and you read in the Bible, said, "I'm the Lord that heals all thy diseases."
Then the new skin, as that life begins to enter in, stretches it out and says, "Amen, I believe it, Lord."

L-33 But now, what if you're all indoctrinated with all of this here embalming fluid that's been pumped into you, then the first thing you know, why... You know, I always felt sorry for a dead man. I go around to some of them morgues and look at that. I think the man's dead when you take him in there, and then they shoot a lot of fluid into him to be sure he stays dead. And that's about the way it is with some of these churches today around over America. They're dead to begin with. And when you go in there, they'll pump you full of some of their old, intellectual embalming fluid to be sure that you stay that way.
What we need today is a resurrection of the old fashioned, Pentecostal power of the Holy Ghost. That's right. We need to get growing pains where we can stretch out in the Lord. Oh, I just hate to be all cramped up (yes, sir) to a place where you can't say, "Amen" or you... [Brother Branham grunts twice--Ed.] Oh, that just gets on my nerves to do that.


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