<TITLE>24. Par 156-162</TITLE>L-156 Now, not because I quit eating manure, made me different from a pig (See?)--made me not a pig any more; that isn't it. But when my nature changed... "Oh, they put a fence around, I guess they bar off; I'm not supposed to do this." Oh, no. You don't bar off nothing from this; you're just borned again; that's all. You've just been changed. That's right.
But if you could take the spirit out of that--of that lamb and put it into the pig, that lamb would do the same thing--the pig would do the same thing the lamb's spirit in him would do. And that lamb would turn right back around and do the same thing the pig did. Now you see, you pigs, where you're at? That's exactly right. That's right. See?

L-158 You go on out and love the things of the world. Wear shorts and do all these things; go ahead; shows what you are. "By their fruits you shall know them. Does men gather figs off of thorns?" See? No, no. You draw figs off of a fig trees. You get apples off a apple trees. You get thorns off a thorn tree. That's right.
Now, listen real close now.
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to His own--to His good pleasure of his--his will.
Having predestinated us to the praises of His glory of his grace, wherein he has made us acceptable in the beloved.
Who did it? 'Cause I quit drinking, 'cause I quit smoking? No. He did it. He made me, before the foundation of the world, acceptable in the presence of His grace. Nothing I done; never done a thing about it, didn't have one thing to do with it. I was a pig to begin with; I was a sinner born in a family of drunkards, raised up on a moonshine still, setting on a whiskey barrel: disgraceful. That's right. Kentucky moonshiner, never wore a pair of shoes till I was a great big boy, hair hanging down my neck, setting up on a moonshine keg making moonshine, and yet the Holy Ghost come to me at seven years old, said, "Don't you touch a drop of it, and don't you fool with them little old girls out there, and don't you smoke a cigarette, or chew a chew of tobacco." Oh, my, what was it? The Father's good will before the foundation of the world, that He would send me to preach the Gospel and lead His sheep. God bless Him, and forever that great Name. I'll stay by His Bible, sink or drown, popular or unpopular. Whether anybody loves me or not I'll please Him. I want to do that which pleases Him.

L-160 If the Baptists turn me down, the Methodists, the Pentecostal upon their initial evidence, speaking in tongues being the Holy Ghost... That's the reason we're not Pentecostal. We don't believe that the speaking with tongues makes you filled with the Holy Ghost, no more than we believe living in a barn would make you a pig (No, sir.), no more than we believe living in a--in a king's palace would make you a king. It doesn't. You could be a servant (See?); you could be anything.
No, sir. We believe that you receive the Holy Ghost by an experience, not by mythical intellectual conception of the Scriptures, but by an experience that you alone know. Now, if you want to know whether it was the Holy Ghost, watch how your life patterns after that; it'll tell what kind of a spirit come into you.

L-162 You might speak with tongues and you might not. But why did the Pentecostals do such a horrible thing as that? Why did the Pentecostal do that? Why? Because in the beginning when God begin to restore back yonder forty years ago, bringing back the gifts, somebody begin to speak with tongues... And speaking in tongues is the least gift, according to Paul's teaching, of the entire bunch of gifts. The least of all the gifts is speaking in tongues. And as soon as they did it, they all got excited and made a denomination and called it the General Council, which is the Assemblies of God.


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