<TITLE>13. Par 107-114</TITLE>L-107 Is man right, or, "Oh, you can get the Holy Ghost and be saved, and tomorrow you can be lost and go to hell"? Don't you never believe that tommyrot. That's a lie.
You're ever borned again, your whole nature's fixed different. If a man ever is planted in Christ, and...?... the Life of the grapevine is coming through him, he'll never bear pumpkins no more. You might tie one on him, but he knows something's wrong, he'll lay there and groan till it's taken off of him; it's too much weight for him, bows him down too close to the ground. He likes to grow up. Can't hang a pumpkin on a grapevine.
Notice. Oh, contending for the faith... That was "earnestly" contending; not just contending, but earnestly contending; between Life and death. We'll jump on to another one. You can stay a long time on that one.

L-110 The next thing that we'd like to say for, is brotherly love, has been eaten away from the vine, brotherly love. Jesus said, "This will all men know you're My disciples, when you have love one for another."
Well, now let's just take an example. If a man don't believe the same as I do, I'll go right into his congregation and preach with him, just preach what he believes, and go right ahead and let it go, 'cause I love him. By their fruits you know them. If they don't believe it, and they haven't got brotherly love, they drop out, disagree, fall away, "I'll have nothing to do with It." Why don't you come to me and talk to me about It? You don't know what I believe. See? What difference does it make, anyhow, what I believe? It's Who I believe, Jesus Christ! I've never left a meeting yet with a bad taste, as I know of. But, you see, brotherly love has been all discarded.
And Paul seen it, I Corinthians 13, he said, "Let brotherly love continue." But brotherly love has been taken away. Now watch, every time...

L-113 Now, listen close now, we're going into strong meats. Every time that the devil takes something off of the tree, we'll say the bark, the insect eats the bark off, he puts an old man-made rag around it to take its place. Put a rag around a sap line of a tree, it won't send the sap on up into the fruits of the tree; it won't bear any fruits; it'll drop right back down to the ground. And that's the reason today we can't have revival in our day, it's too much man-made dogma. The Lifeline won't wash through an old gr--rag, it'll--sap life will drop right back down to the ground. That's the reason our revivals fail.

L-114 And Billy Graham said the other day; he was naming where he had a great revival. And the very place where he was preaching, he had to take his wife from the parks because the men and women living immorally right out in the parks. What was the matter? Man-made rags, in the stead of God-grown bark, it won't carry the Life. A church that's wrapped around a man-made creed will not send the power of God up into the branches. It'll say, "The days of miracles is passed," and drop it flat on the ground. Amen. I know you think I'm crazy; but if I am, let me alone, I feel good this way. See? It'll drop...
The Word of God, if God says here, "I'm the Lord, I never change."...
"Well, He's changed in this day," says the rag: drops it down. Where it first started was in the early age, when they had no denominations, and man has tried to restore brotherhood through denominations. Brotherly love has been cut off, because of denominations.


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