<TITLE>09. Par 25-28</TITLE>L-25 And in our Scripture reading tonight Jesus said, when He said to that tree, "No man eat from thee from henceforth." And the next day it was withered. And Peter noticed it. What is He doing? Teaching His disciples. And he said, "Behold, the tree's withered, where You cursed yesterday."
He said, "Have faith in God." After Peter had seen a miracle that He had done, He said, "Say to this mountain, Be moved; and don't doubt, but believe that what you said is being done; and you can have what you said." Something genuine follows an experience.

L-26 And, brother, the world tonight is looking for something genuine. The people of this nation, and of the rest of the world, is looking to the church for something genuine. Science has brought us death. Society has brought us corruption. Church organizations brought us fusses. The people want something real. When they see that display, they're ready. God's got it. We talk about a God, where is He?

L-27 Some time ago, it brings me to relate an experience. As you know, I like to hunt. I don't go so much to kill game, I go just to be alone with God. And I used to hunt up here near New England state, over here on the Androscoggin River, around Lake Umbagog, Moosehead, when I was just a little boy, down around the White Mountains. And I remember a hunting partner I had there. He was one of the best hunters I ever hunted with, a typical little Yankee, and a very fine man. You'd never lose him in the woods; you didn't have to worry about him; let him go. And he knowed his business. But he was one of the meanest men I ever seen. Oh, he was cruel in his heart. He used to shoot little fawns just to get me to feel bad.
Now, if the law says you can shoot a fawn, that's all right. Now, it isn't the size of the deer, but there's no need of killing just ten or fifteen to be mean about it. Abraham killed a calf and God eat it. So the fawn didn't make the difference; it's just being mean and wanting to show off. And that's the way with many people today; they just want to act smart when they know better. They'll call you holy-roller, or they'll call you fanatic or something another like that, when they just want to be smart. They don't realize they're not hurting you; they're hurting God. "Did you attend that revival? Shame on you." Blessed are your eyes.

L-28 But this man, he would shoot those little deer just to make me feel bad. And I said, "What do you do that for?"
"Oh," he said, "preacher, you're just chicken hearted. That's what's the matter with you preachers; you're just chicken hearted." Said, "Like to hunt with you, Billy, but you're too tender-hearted. You shouldn't do that; you should be a man."
I said, "Burt, a man's not measured by how much brute he's got in him; a man's measured by character." I've seen men that was six foot tall, weighed two hundred and twenty pounds, and all muscle, and didn't have a ounce of man in him. That's right. A man's measured by his character. I mean that he'd throw a baby out of a mother's arms and ravish her. You don't call that man. Principle... Christ wasn't very big and no beauty that we should desire Him; there's never been a man equal Him. It's measured by character, what you are inside of you.
And so he said, "Oh, get next to yourself."


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