<TITLE>07. Par 24-26</TITLE>L-24 Now, a growth is a multiplication of cells. That's the same thing you are, a multiplication of cells. You know where your life come from, because it was through holy wedlock. And we realize that the woman doesn't have the hemoglobin; it comes from the man. And--and the male produces the blood cells. Now, many of you people are farmers, and you have chickens, you have--look at the yard and see birds, and the birds...
A mother bird can build her nest and lay it full of eggs, and she can hover those eggs, and treat them just as good as she can treat them, and starve herself till she's so poor, she can hardly get off the nest, turning those eggs, reverently every few minutes, so that they'll hatch, keeping them warm, defying herself of all the food and things that she should have to build her own body. She's loyal to those eggs. But if that mother bird hasn't been with the male, them eggs will never hatch. They'll rot right in the nest.
A hen, your chickens can lay an egg, the hen can. She can set on them the same way, and it'll never hatch unless she's been with the male bird.

L-25 Now, that's what I think about the church today. See? No matter how many members we have, how well we have to pet them and baby them, if they haven't been with the Mate, Jesus Christ, and been borned again, they can never believe Divine healing or nothing else. You just got a nest full of rotten eggs. It's best to clean the nest and start all over again. That's... If--if there ever was a time that they need a nest cleaning, it's in America right now. That's true. We have by mistakes brought in many people and put them on the church book, and so forth, which is fine. I'd rather them be in church than to be out there on the street, but yet, what we need is a revival.
Now, a revival isn't so much to bring in new members, but revive that what you've already got in. See? Just like your--your sea over here. I set over there by the shore the other day, and they taken me fishing yesterday, after had one day off, and I watched that great, mighty sea churn those waves up-and-down. I thought, "What's he so upset about? What's he churning the waves about?" I thought, "There's not one drop more water in it, then when it is when it's perfectly calm." That's right. Got the same amount of water. Not no more water at all. But what you having that churning for? I thought, "It's having a revival." What does it do? Shake all the trash out of the water on the bank.
So that's what--that's what the church needs today is a revival. We'll get all the unbelief shook out of us, until we can be clean. Don't you think so? For all--what I mean by sin is unbelief. We realize that that's the only sin there is is unbelief. We believe that. "He that believeth not is condemned already."

L-26 As I said one time, sometime ago, preaching in a Methodist church, I said, "Smoking cigarettes, drinking whiskey, committing adultery, lying, stealing, that isn't sin."
And a precious, dear little sister setting there, one of those little round collars on, and taught holiness all of her life, she said, "I pray, tell me what is sin?"
I just got next to her. I said, "Sin is unbelief." You--you do those things because you believe not. He that believes on the Lord wouldn't do those things. He's past from death unto Life.
Jesus said in Saint John 5:24, "He that heareth My Words, and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Eternal Life (And there's only one form of Eternal Life, and that's the Holy Spirit. See?) --has Eternal Life, and shall never come to the judgment, but hath (past tense) past from death unto life." Oh, I like that, don't you? He that believeth...


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