<TITLE>12. Par 28-31</TITLE>L-28 No matter how poor we are, how we have to be run over, how the world talks about you, and says everything about you, it ought to make you keep head up for the mo--morales of the rest of them. We should never have words against one another. We should always say the highest thing about a brother or sister. If one is down in the gutter, don't never shove them any farther down. Pick him up; get him out of there as quick as you can, because it helps. We should be an example. We should live an example, like we are sons and daughters of God, the Eternal King. We ought to conduct ourselves in that manner as sons and daughters of the King. We should never do nothing that would bring disgrace.

L-29 I was saying this the other day, and my wife setting back here listening at me. We were going to a store to get some groceries a few weeks ago, and right in that wintertime we seen a lady with them little bitty clothes on, short clothes, with a little sweater around her. My wife said, "You know she cannot be comfortable like that."
Well, we got to talking about it. I said, "Honey, when I go to Germany I find..." I said, "She's just an American, that's all." And I said, "When I go to Germany, they have the German spirit, national spirit. When I go to Finland, they have the Finnish spirit. When I go to Sweden, they have the Swedish spirit. When we go to Africa, they have the African spirit. When we come to America, they have the American spirit."
"Why," she said, "aren't we Americans?"
I said, "No, not me, I just live here."
She said, "Well, th--what..."
I said, "That's the reason; they've just got the American spirit. We're called religious."

L-30 I said to a girl one time; I said, "Lady, are you a Christian?"
"Why," she said, "I'll give you to understand, I was Christian when I was a baby."
I said, "What's that got to do with it?"
Old Brother Bosworth ask one, one time, said, "Are a Christian?"
She was so put out; she snorted; she said, "I get you understand, I burn a candle every night." Well, like that had anything to do with it.
One of them said to me up in Mishawaka, one time, said, "I'll give you to understand I'm an American."
I said, "That don't have nothing to do with it. Not one thing to do with it."

L-31 And I said, "Honey, the reason that Christians..." I said, "The Christians doesn't have any desire to act like that, because they are not really American. As citizenship they are here, but they are pilgrims and strangers, they... Our citizenship is in heaven, and they are borned from above, where holiness, and godliness rule. Real Christians, that's borned of the Spirit of God, doesn't act like that."
No sir. Oh, you can be--you can be a Pentecostal. You can belong to the Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist church, smoke cigarettes, drink, have card parties, bunco dance, but if you're a Christian you won't do that. That's exactly.
In my country we have oak trees. It's coming spring pretty soon now; all the leaves was on them trees last year is still there. Now, I don't have to go out and pick every one of them leaves off so that new leaves comes on. Just let the new life come up, and the old leaf drops off. That's the same thing it is about the Spirit of God whether you're a Christian or not. Let the new life of Christ come in, and the old life dies, and you become a new creature in Christ Jesus. Oh, that's what it is.


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