<TITLE>07. Par 25-28</TITLE>L-25 I said to a young girl one time, coming on the platform, I said, "Are you a Christian?"
Why, she felt stepped on. She said, "I'll give you to understand; I belong to Such-and-such a church."
I said, "That doesn't have anything to do with it, not a thing."
One said... asked them one time... Brother Bosworth asked a young girl, I heard him on the platform, said, "Are you a Christian?"
She said, "I'll give you to understand I burn a candle every night." Like that's got anything to do with it.
To be a Christian means to be Christ-like, borned of His Spirit, cleansed by the Holy Ghost and fire, a new creature, created in the--the likeness and the power of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus.

L-26 What makes people want to do that, is because it's their make-up; they can't help it. God made them to thirst. He made a man... When He made up the man, He made him to thirst. But He made him, put that thirst in him to thirst after God. And how dare any man or woman to try to satisfy that holy thirst in them with the things of the world. You got no right to do it. God made you to thirst for Him. And you'll never be satisfied until you drink from that fountain that's filled with Blood drawn from Immanuel's veins, where sinners plunged beneath the flood, and lose all their guilty stain. You just can't satisfy yourself.
You go out and get drunk, and you come back, and you have a headache. The next morning you get up and you starting the next day, throw it in again. So nervous you can't hold yourself together, smoke one cigarette after the other, and knowing not that you're heaping coals of fire into it. Why, every one you smoke will make you that much more nervous.

L-27 And what does a--what does that? It's the devil. God's the One can quieten your nerves. God's the One Who can give you that satisfying portion; that's His Spirit. The reason that you do those things, is 'cause you're substituting those things for the real thirst that God put in you for the Holy Ghost. "Oh, come unto Me all ye that are weary and heavy laden, I'll give you rest." He's the Fountain of Life. My expression of Jesus Christ, He is the inexhaustible Fountain of Life that a man may drink and be satisfied. That's what you're made like that for. That's why you got that thirst in you.
And then, if He can't make you drink, and the doctors can scare you to death of cancer in the throat from cigarette, then he'll let you join a church, and just go ahead living for the world. He's still got you. You're still not satisfied.

L-28 There cannot be a satisfaction outside of the new birth. A man was made for that. God made you up that way. And ne--you'll never be satisfied until you quench that thirsting with the Holy Spirit. When you take one drink from that Fountain, you become a new creature. Old desires pass away; all things become new to you. Then that satisfying portion of the baby like laying on his mama's breast, it's drawing from her its life. That's the way Jesus is. That portion is Him.
The Christian has no right to brag on what denominational church you belong to, and try to call it satisfying. My mother was a Certain-certain, and I--I'm that too. That doesn't have nothing to do with it. And no one has any right to try to satisfy that holy thirst and hunger in their soul with the things of the world. You're only perverting the very gracious thing that God put in you. God made you to thirst so you would thirst after Him. And you pervert that and listen to the devil, and thirst, and try to satisfy that thirst with the things of the world. Jesus said--or the Bible said, "If ye love the world or the things of the world, the love of God's not even in you."


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