<TITLE>08. Par 54-62</TITLE>L-54 I believe it was some years ago in 1944, that the Baptists had a--a slogan out, "A million more in '44." And what did they have when they got a million more? Just like joining a lodge, if they wasn't genuine borned again disciples of Christ. They were just Baptist by name.
Look at the other denominations, the Lutheran, the Presbyterian, the Pentecostals, all the other denominations; they're the same. They're trying to achieve something. They want to do something great (See?), because it's his eye he's looking at. He thinks with his eye. And many times he don't understand that that's the thing that he oughtn't to do. But the devil takes the man's eye; he shows him something pretty. He opens his eyes to look at it. And he's got that into the church, into the intellectual thinking of man.

L-56 Some time ago, this great evangelist, Billy Graham, stood here in Louisville and held up his Bible. He said, "This is God's standard." And he's right. He's exactly right. Mordecai Hamm, the evangelist, my old Kentucky home, and I, were setting at the same table. Which, Billy was converted under Mordecai Hamm. And we were setting there. And he said, "What happens?" He said, "Paul went into a city and got one convert; he returned a year later and he had thirty by that one." Said, "I go into a city and have twenty thousand converts, return in a year and can't find twenty. Something's wrong." And he said, "You know what it is? It's you lazy preachers that set in the buildings, your offices, with your feet on the desk, and don't go visit the people."
I thought, "Billy, that's a very good intellectual," please don't quote me, "but that isn't it. Who was the pastors that went to that one that Paul got converted?" It wasn't that.

L-58 It's here. Those so-called meetings today, and they are great meetings, but it only works on the intellectual part of man. A man gets under the spell of a revival, and he says, "Yes, I accept Christ," and he does it intellectually because he's in a great crowd. He does it because there's great ministers before him, but it's only an intellectual conception. That man can never go on. He's got to come from his mind to his heart, and be borned again, or he'll never be able to stand the test.

L-59 Intellectual conceptions is all right, but when... You remember, when the eye looks upon it, the devil uses your eye. In the garden of Eden it proved that the devil chose the head of man to work in, but God chooses his heart. The devil shows him with his eyes, something that he can see, and he says, "Seeing is believing."
But when God comes to a man, He comes to his heart. And He lets him believe things by his heart through faith, that his eyes does not see. For the Scripture says that, "The faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
God working here; Satan working here... So what good does these big schools and seminaries do anyhow? It sometimes, not always, but too many times, it pulls from here, up to here, when it ought to be taken from here, down to here in the man's heart.

L-62 You know, the Scripture says, "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he."
The old infidel and critic used to say, "How foolish God was, to say that there was mental faculties in a man's heart, for there's nothing in there to think with."
But about four years ago science found out that in the human heart there is a thinking faculty. There is a little room, a little place where there's not even a cell, a little compartment in the human heart. It isn't in the animal or no other life. But in the human heart there is a little place, and they never could come to conclusion what it was, but finally they said this: "It's the place where the soul dwells."
So God does speak His Words right, "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." Not in his head, if God would've meant head, He'd have said, "head." He said, "his heart."


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