<TITLE>11. Par 31-34</TITLE>L-31 I was in a breakfast with Billy Graham, some time ago in Louisville. And he said... Took the Bible and said, "This is God's standard." He said, "I'll go to the city, and I'll hold a revival. I'll have twenty thousand converts in six weeks." Said, "I go back in another year, and I haven't got twenty out of the twenty thousand." And then he said, "Paul went into a city and had one convert, and come back the next year and had twenty out of that one." He said... Now here's what Billy said, with a bunch of preachers, about three hundred of them, he said, "It's you lazy bunch of preachers, that's set in with your feet up on the desk, and don't go out and visit the people." Said, "That's the reason they don't stay."
And I thought, "Mr. Graham, my gracious brother, a man who I take off my hat to as a gallant soldier of God. Yes. But Paul had something different. Paul didn't go out and visit them after his converts, because he left the city and come back to that one convert. But what he done to that convert, he led him into something that set his soul afire." Not the lazy preacher, if he had the same thing, he wouldn't be lazy like that. He'd be on the march for Christ, a burning something in his heart that wouldn't let him set still. We just take them through their intellectuals.

L-32 In the garden of Eden, the devil chose a man's head. God took his heart. The devil tries to show him what he can see with his eyes. God, in his heart, makes him believe things by faith that he cannot see. "For faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
See, man wants to see a big place, or--or a great something with a psychological effect to it. God isn't in psychology. He doesn't work with the mental powers. You'll never be able to reason out God. You believe God by faith.

L-33 Speaking at a breakfast this morning. I said the reason men go and joins churches and put their names on them, is because they're trying to bypass the new birth. They don't want the new birth. Oh, some of the theologians today figure out what they call the new birth, shake hands, and put your name on a paper, and believe a declaration of creeds. But the new birth is to be--die, and to borned again, anew, a new creature in Christ.
Anybody knows that when a baby's borned, I don't care if it's on a barn floor or on a straw-tick, or in a--a decorated hospital room; it's a mess, I don't care where it's born. But what is it? It's a mess, but it brings life. And that's what we need today, is a birth--a spiritual birth. It's a mess, but it brings Life--Christian Life, new Life, Life, that sacrificial life.

L-34 Some people say, "I wouldn't belong to one of those full Gospel churches. They cry and shout, and jerk their hands around, and things like that." That's all right. They may act funny, but they've been borned. They may look like a mess, but they got Life. That's the thing. As long as you got life... Ask one of them if he's satisfied. Watch the way he acts, the places he goes.
You know the bird by it's habits. A crow and a dove could have no fellowship; their diet's different. And a Christian can't mix with the world. A crow's a hypocrite. A hypocrite is a--is a deceiver. A crow can set on an old dead carcass and eat all day long, and fly out in a wheat field and eat wheat with the doves. But the dove can eat wheat, but he can't eat the dead carcass. Why? He hasn't got any gall. He couldn't digest it.
And that's the way with a Christian; the bitterness is taken from him. He couldn't digest the world. But a hypocrite can live in sin all day long, and come into church at night, and shout like the rest of them. That's a hypocrite.


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