<TITLE>10. Par 35-39</TITLE>L-35 Some medicines will work on some people, where it will kill the next one. You can't be too sure about it, but I want to say one thing. God's Balm for sin heals everyone. Whosoever will, that whether he's... What nature is or no matter who it is, God's Balm is the cure for sin, the double cure. I love that old song we used to sing, "Be for sin a double cure." I love that.
Now, God's balm, there's no... Don't have to worry about that, that'll take care of itself. I've often wondered, and I've got many fine doctor friends, and they study the medical journals and so forth, and sometimes I get one to study. I like to think how God's doing in the medical--medical profession.

L-36 You know how they find medicine? Well, science puts different chemicals together and tries it out and after a while they got a formula built up, and that formula, they--they shoot it into a guinea pig. If the guinea pig survives it, they try a...?... round. Let's see how it'll work on you. They try it on a guinea pig, and if it works the guinea pig all right, then they'll try it on a human. Therefore all humans are not like guinea pigs. Therefore, so they kill some, makes the others well.
I've heard it said that in the journal that--that the heart trouble was number one killer in the nation. Not to be different, but not to disagree with those loyal men, but I'd say this. I differ this much. Heart trouble is not the number one killer. Sin killer is the number one killer--sin. That's what kills soul and body: sin, number one killer.

L-37 And you've heard the old expression, "I just can't keep from sinning. No one can keep from it. I've just got to smoke. I've just got to take a drink now and then. I've got to do these things." You know why it is? Because they don't take God's remedy, His inoculation from it. God's got a balm that'll inoculate you. That's right.
They're afraid of it. They're afraid they'll do something unusual, afraid they'll get out of the regular routine, afraid the church won't agree with what they're doing, afraid their neighbors won't agree. What do you care about your neighbors as long as God agrees? As long as your experience agrees with God's Word what about it? Stay with that.

L-38 Oh, it's the new birth. They're afraid of that. The new birth is like any other birth. It's a mess. I don't care what kind of a birth it is, it's a mess. If it's in a pigpen, or if it's in a barnyard, or in a pink decorated hospital room, it's a mess. So is the new birth a mess. It'll make you do things you didn't think you'd ever do, but out of that mess comes life. Hallelujah. That's it. Out of a mess comes life. Life comes out of a mess. Life comes out of death.
Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abides alone. But as long as it dies and rots, then out of that rotten mess comes forth life. Until a man or a woman is ready to die to theirselves, die out to their creeds, die out to their own ideas, and out of that rotten mess bring forth a new birth of glories and shouts and praises of God that makes him act different, changes his nature, changes his life, changes his motives and changes his objectives...

L-39 But they're afraid of it, afraid it'll make them cry and ruin the make-up on their face--the women. Afraid it'll spoil the appetite of the cigar for the man. See? They're afraid of it. They don't want it, afraid somebody will call them holy-roller or--or a fanatic. If they called the Master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they call them of His disciples? Sure. If they didn't call me that, I'd get down and pray and say, "Lord, what's the matter with me?" The world knows its own, but you are bought with a price. You are different people, a holy people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation; you are a kingdom.


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