<TITLE>07. Par 26-29</TITLE>L-26 Yes, the reason people don't want to take it, is because of their style and their pride. I see it's getting to creep into us Pentecostal people. A little pride, we don't want to do it. "I don't want to get down at that altar and boo-hoo."
Well, let me tell you something. I've got a mixed audience here, but I want you to understand this in the light that it's given. Any birth is a mess. I don't care where it's at. If it's in the pig pen in the barn, if it's in a house, or a pink decorated hospital room, a birth is a mess. And so is the new birth a mess. You can't come up starchy and say, "I received Christ as my personal Saviour." Nonsense. Get down there at the altar and stay there until you are borned again. It's a mess, but It brings Life. I don't care what scale or what level I have to come onto.

L-27 My Baptist brethren told me, said, "Billy, you're going to be a holy-roller." I didn't care if it was holy-roller or holy-jumper, whatever level it was, I wanted new life. Didn't care what it was, what level it was. When you're ready to receive It, you'll come and get It. Blessed are they that hunger and thirst for righteousness, they shall be filled.
The old darkie down in the South was so happy with the Holy Ghost. And his boss said, "I'd like to have some of that there heartfelt religion."
Said, "Well, boss, you can have it."
Said, "Well now wait," said, "When I get ready for it and I'll tell you."
Said, "All right, I will be waiting for you."

L-28 So, one day it was a rainy day. Oh, the rain was just a pouring. And the boss said, "Mose, I'm ready to get that Holy Ghost you're talking about."
Said, "All right, boss, I'd be glad to go with you."
So, he said, "Let's go over to the corn crib. The corn's all out of it now, and it's just been swept out. It's nice and dry and clean."
And they walked over there, and Mose said, "But boss, this is not where you get It."
He said, "All right, we'll go up in the hay loft." Said, "It's nice and soft, and the smell of hay." Said, "We'll go up in the hay loft"
And when they climbed up there, Mose looked around. He said, "But this is not where you get It, boss."
He said, "Then Mose, where do you get It?"
He said, "Follow me," said Mose. And he begin to roll up his britches legs, and he walked out into the pig pen plumb up to his knees, and he said, "Here's where you get It."
"Oh," he said, "I--I don't want to come out there"
Said, "I didn't think you was ready for It at the beginning." That's it. When you really want God, I don't care how It comes, you are willing and ready. You will receive It.

L-29 Anything's got to die before you can get life. And life only comes by death. Life is by death.
You take a grain of corn and you plant it. Except that grain of corn will lay there, and not only die but rot, then it'll spring forth new life out of that rotten mess. And until man gets those--all the human made psychology beat out of them by the Holy Spirit, and lay there till they're rotten to their own ideas, then they will receive the Holy Ghost. When you can get all the creeds and stuff beat out of you, rotted out of you till it's dead and rotten... That's awful bad, but that's the only way I know to say it. You understand it. Till it rots, then new Life will come.


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