<TITLE>12. Par 48-51</TITLE>L-48 The Bible said Jesus had done so many things, they called Him Beelzebub and so forth, because they--the prophet said, "They got eyes but they can't see." And the Scripture here, Jesus speaking, said the Church would be in that condition in the last days...?... people that set here, got good churches, you got smart men. You got plenty of money and well dressed, but you're blind, naked. There's hardly no Blood, no sanctifying grace upon you. Living in the world if you... If you were sanctified by the Spirit of God (I believe in holiness, His holiness.), you'd act different, live different than people does today. I'm not talking about maybe just the individuals setting here. You know who, where it's hitting where it isn't. I'm just responsible for telling it. Blind...

L-49 When I was a little boy down in Kentucky where I was born, we had a little old cabin...?... on it, and a stump for a table, and--and a little old rail put around the side, and a bunch of shucks laying there where papa and mama slept, an old shuck mattress and shuck pillow. Summertime they took straw when we could get it, make the straw beds.
And we little kids slept upstairs in a--just a little... Two little limbs, saplings with little sticks of wood across it, we'd go up and go to bed, have just a shuck mattress laying there and we'd get on it, and--and little old clapboard shingles shrinking up and great big holes in them. Mama used to put a piece of canvas over us to keep us from getting wet when it would rain.

L-50 And I remember too, that the draft through there at nighttime would get cold in our eyes, and we--we... Mama called it matter. Their little... Our little eyes would stick together. And she said, "The cold wind done it drafting through the building." And at nighttime when she, morning when she would call us, she'd say, "Billy...?... come on down. Bring Edgar with you so he won't fall coming down the steps."
I'd try to get my eyes open, and I'd say, "Mama, I can't see."
Now, grandpa was a--a trapper, a hunter. And he'd say... He would trap coons, raccoons. And he'd take the grease off of it,  make called coon grease, and mama would set it on the little old stove and get it hot. And she'd rub our eyes and massage it with this coon grease so that the cold would go out of our eyes and we could see. Then after the coon grease was applied, warm coon grease, until our eyes got all the matter out of them, she'd wipe them out and then we could see to where we were going.

L-51 And there's been a spiritual draft come through the church in America, and they caught a spiritual cold, and their eyes are stuck together. Jesus said, "Counsel of Me and buy eye salve, that you might anoint your eyes." Brother, coon grease might work for the literal body, but it'll take more than coon grease to work for your spiritual eyes.
It'll take an old fashion God-sent baptism of the Holy Spirit, the Oil of God's Spirit, to open the eyes that's been caught in this draft of sociology, oh, or all kinds of theologies and everything, just so mixed up, and such a conglomeration with all kinds of jokes and carrying on, and nonsense, and ill-living, and just wading in sin.


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