<TITLE>13. Par 95-100</TITLE>L-95 Now, a lot of people don't want to get the birthright, because they think that it's just a little unpopular. They don't want to get down at the altar and cry a little bit, or go without a few meals, and--and something another. They--they--they don't want to do it. A lot of the women with a lot of, you know, mani--makeup on, they think if they'd cry they might wash it off, have to put it on again. Why, they... it's... And I don't mean to say that sacrilegious; I hope it don't sound that way; but that's the truth. They just don't want it.
They don't want the new birth, because the new birth is kinda messy. It's like any other birth. Any birth is a mess, I don't care where it's at. If it's in a pig pen, or in the barn, or if it's in a pink, decorated hospital room, it's a mess.
And so is the new birth a mess. Amen. It'll make you do things that you didn't think you'd do: stand on a corner and beat a tambourine, or sing "Glory be to the God. Hallelujah. Praise God. Glory to God." Why, you'll act like a maniac. That's what it done to the apostles; that's what it done to the virgin Mary; she act like she was drunk. She was a mess in society, but it takes a mess for life to come out of. Amen.

L-97 Unless anything dies and rots, life can't come from it. Unless a man dies and rots in his own thoughts, Christ can't get into his heart. When you're trying to think for yourself, "Now, if I walk up to the altar and say, 'Yes, Lord, I'm--I'm a fine fellow; I'll take You. I'll pay my tithes. I'll do this,'" you got to die and rot right there to your thoughts. Let the Holy Ghost take over and just do whatever He wants to with you. Get kind of messy with it. That sounds horrible, not sacrilegious, but it's the truth. It's the only way I know how to punch the thing out to make you understand it.
What was more of a mess than that dignified bunch of Jews that day, than to see these people coming out there with stammering lips? You know what a stammer is? [Brother Branham demonstrates what a stammer is--Ed.]...?... Other tongues, and acting like drunk people. [Brother Branham demonstrates how a drunk person acts--Ed.] That's exactly what they were doing. They looked messy.
And he said, "Are these men all full of new wine?"

L-100 But after one kind of got to himself, he said, "Let this be known to you, and hearken to my words; these are not drunk like you suppose it is." But he went right to the Scripture, "This is that that was spoke of by the prophet Joel, 'And it shall come to pass in the last day,' saith God, 'I'll pour out My Spirit upon all flesh.'"
That's the way the church was born first. How many believes that God is infinite? See? Then He cannot change. And if that was His idea of a church at the beginning; that's the kind of church He'll have at the end. He cannot change. So how you going to substitute shaking a hand, or sprinkling, or--or some other thing that it didn't happen right there? Each one of the apostles went right back to that.


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