<TITLE>07. Par 44-50</TITLE>L-44 "Well, it's," you say, "well, if they was sincere." No, that doesn't excuse it.
A man, a druggist, give a man carbolic acid here a few years ago just as sincere as he could be, and a registered pharmacy, and it killed the man. Yet, he was sincere. There isn't... Sincerity, I've seen sincerity amongst the heathens that would make Christian sincerity look like something way back in the antique lines. Seen pagans that would lay their babies in the mouth of an alligator to sacrifice it to a god of the waters. I couldn't find that sincerity amongst Christians. I've seen people that would lay on spikes and break the bones of their feet when they're little children; I've seen them take babies and little fellows, and cut them, and mark them over, and bleed them, and sometimes take their lives. Deep sincerity, but they're wrong.

L-45 Now, let's find something. Job, or Joel, rather, I guess--think he gave us a great background here, and that's what we want to take for a reading. He said. "You tell, tell your children... let your children tell their children, and theirs another one, and so forth, to another generation (which would be the Gentiles). Tell Israel to keep telling it."
And now this Scripture that Joel spoke of is fulfilled today as we the Gentiles has received It. He said, "That what the palmerworm has left has the caterpillar eaten; the caterpillar,... the locust..." and so forth.
And these insects, if you'll get your book on insects, you'll notice that that's four different insects is the same-self insect in four different stages of its life. All of us know that a--that a--a cocoon is nothing but a caterpillar covered over, and it's going to hatch out a butterfly; and a butterfly is a caterpillar before it hatches out. The palmerworm, the locust, and so-forth, is the same, it's the same insect. Now, whatever...

L-48 Now, listen close. Whatever happened in the first place with the insect of the palmerworm, it just become a caterpillar later. And the caterpillar become a locust later. And whatever it was that started in the beginning, is still the same thing that's causing the trouble today. And let's go back now in the Scriptures and find out what started.

L-49 Now, we know that we can only build a church first upon the material that God gave us to build it with. That's all we have. And I think before... I know this is strong, and it's on tape, hundreds of people around the world will hear it. But before we can ever have a building of a--the Church of God, we will have to restore back all those things that these insects has eaten out of it. We'll have to go back and find out what the insects eat. And before this Vine of the Lord, the Grapevine... He's the Vine; we're the branches. And before we can ever find out, or the Church can stand in its formal and original power, we'll have to go back and find out what the insects eat. And that Church will have to be restored back to that, or it will never stand in its power and glory of its first standing.

L-50 If the bark's tore off of a tree, we got to get bark back on it again. Grow the bark first. You can't have apples till you grow the bark. For the bark is the sap line, the sap line is the lifeline.
And the Scriptures, God's holy Bible is the Lifeline to any church. How could we ever bring up grape sap through sycamore bark? Just won't work. We've got to have grapevine bark. We've got to have the original bark. And there's only one way that that bark can ever come back on the vine, is when God grows it Himself.
We can't make some and put on it; it won't work. No man-made scheme will ever work. It'll take God's way or it'll never live. Man-made schemes will not work. You might wrap a rag around the tree, and say, "Let it grow." A rag wasn't God's program. It's got to be bark, lifeline. And when it comes from the roots, it'll produce the same life that the tree had before the insects eat it.


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