<TITLE>04. Par 11-14</TITLE>L-11 So, what a satisfaction it gives us then to know, that when you're borned of the Spirit of God, you are sons and daughters of God. Now, this...
Jacob it meant so much to him, but the birthright meant nothing to Esau. Frankly, he despised it. And I say this with all reverence: His children still does. That's right. He despises it. "What do I... What do I have to do that for? Why should I receive the Holy Ghost? I'm as good as you are. My religion's as good as yours. Why should I go through all of that there? I'm just as good you are. I go to church; I got my name the book. I'm just... I'm so-and-so." That--that's what you are, but what are you in the sight of God? You got to be borned again, spiritually minded.
So it didn't mean anything to Esau; he despised it. And the carnal believer today still despises that birthright. And the birthright is the Holy Spirit; we are--we know that. And the carnal believer despises that. Oh, he said, "Them days are passed. There's no such a thing as receiving the Holy Ghost any more. That was in back in the apostles' time."

L-12 I heard a great man say one time in a fine church. He said, "Pentecost was only the scaffold work to the building," and he said, "then after the building is made, why," said, "they don't need the scaffold any more."
So at the end of the service, I come around to shake hands with this great man. I said, "I want to compliment you on your message this morning, doctor." I said, "I'll agree with you that Pentecost was the scaffold work. And as long as we're building on it, we still have to have the scaffold." That's right. The scaffold's the last thing to take down. Till you put the--the end of the spire upon the top--tip top, you still have to have the scaffold." I'm glad tonight, to be working on the building, standing on the scaffold then, aren't you?

L-13 Now, we find that this birthright meant everything to Jacob. Now, he didn't care for nothing else, but that birthright. He didn't care what it cost him. If it was a mess of pottage. He was glad to give it back to Esau. So is it with any man or woman that has been ordained to Eternal Life, that God has called to Eternal Life, is willing to sell out anything--anything of the world to obtain that birthright.
You can call them anything you want to. You can tell them they've lost their mind, gone off on the deep end, bunch of holy-rollers. I don't care what you call them, they're seeking for that birthright, and that means more than anything else. They are after that birthright; no matter how they have to get it, they're ready to get it.

L-14 A carnal mind wants God to bring the birthright down to their level. But for me, and I believe all true born Christians, we meet it on God's level. I don't care what I have to do, or what I have to say, how I have to act: the only thing, I want it. That's means more than my popularity. That means more than my job. It means more than my mother, means more than my wife, more than my children, more than every friend I got. Let me have that birthright. I don't care what I have to pay. I want to meet God on His requirement. Whatever He requires, if it's fall in dust, if it's speak with tongues, if it's run through the building and act like a maniac, or stand on my head, I don't care what it is, just so I get it. That's the main thing. That's the spiritual minded people. They want the birthright, regardless.
They want it. And as soon as they get it, it sets up the same reaction it was in that family. Finally, it'll come to a place till there come a separation. A man will have to obtain, if he obtains this birthright, he will have to separate himself from the world, just as Jacob had to.


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