<TITLE>20. Par 161-165</TITLE>L-161 If a grain of corn... As I have quoted here, the Agricultural Hour... How many remembers old Brother Spurgeon, the Methodist preacher up at Henryville? A wonderful old character... We were setting at the ice cream fountain at Red Furnish's, one day, eating ice cream; and we were talking about a meeting that I had up there, and the Agricultural Hour was on. And Red had the--the little speaker turned on, and of the--of his radio setting out there. And somewhere they were speaking... 'Course the message was coming from Louisville. But the 4-H Club had--had got a machine that could turn out a grain of corn that they could put the calcium, and the petroleums, and everything into the corn, and make it look just exactly like it was made from...

L-162 The 4-H had it, science had perfected it that the corn looked so real that you could take a handful out of the sack growed in the field, handful out of the sack the machine had turned out, and this over here that the machine turned would make the same kind of corn flakes, corn bread. And actually you could take them down to the laboratory and cut them apart, the grains, and you couldn't tell one from the other: had the same amount of petroleum, same--same amount of calcium, and--and moisture; everything that went in one grain, it was in the other one.
He said, "The only definite way to know that which was growed in the field, and which was made by a machine: bury both handfuls. And they both rotted, and the one that was made by machine would not come up again; but the one that God had growed lived again." Why? Because it was not germitized.

L-164 And you might look like a Christian, act like a Christian, and do every good deed that you could do, and live faithful to your church; but unless you are germitized with the Holy Spirit, the Life of God, Eternal Life coming in you; not by confession, but by a gift of the Holy Ghost... How do you get It? The doctor said on the day of Pentecost, that wrote the prescription, "Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the Name of Jesus Christ, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost," the gift of the Holy Ghost, which is Eternal Life. That's the only thing that God will raise up. It's the only thing that's got Life He can raise up. See? That's the only thing that can go. I hope that's clear. God, grant that it's clear.

L-165 Now, the Nicolaitanes then had the formal side, and they married to the pagan church, bringing in pagan altars, making Christian altars; brought in a pagan god, and made it speak and talk in the form of a bishop: set up there, robed it up and make it look like a god. You see? It's not what's on the outside; it's what's on the inside. Them two grains of corn looked the same; it wasn't what was on the outside; it was what was on the inside (See?), the inside, the Life.
Well, it was made there, and that was the birthplace of early Catholic church, was the mother of all church denominations.


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