<TITLE>14. Par 52-54</TITLE>L-52 I remember when I used to ride on the range. Out in Colorado we had cattle. Hereford Association grazed the Troublesome River Valley. Every spring we'd have to bring--brand these calves. And when we went to branding calves, sometimes they'd get pretty good size cow before... A yearling before he'd get branded. Maybe had to throw him down, take this hot branding iron and stick on him. The fur would burn, and oh, my. When they'd turn him loose, he had a running fit; but brother, he was yours. He was branded. It hurt him a little bit, but we knowed where he belonged after that. It might hurt your pride and burn a little of your ecclesiastical fur off, but you'll know where you belong from then on. Inoculation, certainly...
They was inoculated. They were doing something. They begin to speak with other tongues. Those men said, "Now, what meaneth all of this? Well, we hear them speak. They're all Galileans and why do we hear them speaking in our own tongue wherein we were born? That must be the wonderful works of God."

L-53 And then there was a little fellow stood upon a stump there and begin to preach to them. They had plenty of... They said, "Can we get this Inoculation? We'd like to have this. What can we do to--to be inoculated?"
Now, the new Serum had just been poured out, so they had plenty of Balm, and they had a doctor there. His name was Dr. Simon Peter. That ought to make some of you clergymen feel real good. Dr. Simon Peter, he spoke for the Serum. They said, "What can we do to be inoculated?"
He said, "I'll write you a prescription." He said, "Repent every one of you and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and you shall be inoculated." That's right. He said, "Besides all of that, I'm going to make this a--a lifelong prescription. This prescription can't be fooled with no more. Don't nobody else try to write one like it. Keep this prescription, because it's for you and to your children, and to them that's afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." This same prescription good for them. That's the inoculation.

L-54 If a doctor goes and writes a prescription, a real good doctor he knows just how much of certain things to put in there. One has to upset the other one. If it don't, if you go to putting some more in, or adding something to it, or taking some away from it, you'll kill your patient. Some quack druggist add something to it or take something away from it, might kill the patient.
That's what's the matter with our church move today. The reason we got so many old dead churches. They've tried to fool with that prescription. It's God's prescription. There is a Balm in Gilead, and there's a Physician there. Don't fool with the prescription.
Shake somebody's hands and take them into fellowship. That don't take the repentance. No, sir. Sprinkle somebody with a salt shake full of water, don't take the place of water baptism. Quit fooling with the prescription. There is a Balm in Gilead. There is a Physician there.


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