<TITLE>20. Par 188-194</TITLE>L-188 They want the Holy Ghost. Oh, they say, "We are--have gold." It was gold, all right, but not the right kind. They had plenty of gold but not the right kind. Now, so they were commanded by Jesus, "I know you're rich, and have gold, and have need of nothing, but...
I counsel thee to come buy of me gold tried in the fire,... (a different kind of gold, yeah, a gold that's tried in the fiery furnace, that went through the fire of death, that went through Calvary, come out)...

L-189 Lot of this gold you got now is tarnishey; it'll canker; it'll rust. If you can mark down this, James... Saint James 5:1 to 4, and you'll get what it is, said, "Go ye, you rich men, now at the coming of the Lord, weep and howl for your miseries is come upon you, your gold's cankered in you." See, that's the kind of gold that cankers.
But the gold that Jesus gives is the Holy Spirit, the golden Oil of the Spirit, pours into your heart. And--and, oh, my, counsel you, "Come, buy of Me gold, if you want; get rich." Oh, yes.

L-191 Also they were blind. Now, that's a bad way to be. I don't think these Christians was so blind as they was nearsighted. I believe they were nearsighted. The only thing they could look at was their big buildings. Only thing they could look at was their big congregation. Only thing they looked at was a well-carnished choir with all of its big robes and things. I think they was just nearsighted; they couldn't see over their nose, hardly. I don't think they were blind; they were just nearsighted. All they could see was their... "Well, you know what? We belong to the So-and-so." Their big denomination, their big crowd, many members, their Sunday school, their fine buildings...

L-192 "But they had need of the Holy Ghost," Jesus said. They needed the Holy Ghost. So the Lord said to them, "Eyes, you are... Eyes are so bad, and you're so nearsighted that you can't see nothing but your big building here and your big fine congregation, and your--the mayor of the city and all coming to your church, and you got the celebrity. And you forgot Me. But if you are that blind, and your eyes is that sore, I'll sell you some eyesalve." Yeah.
See, it's strange them doctors of divinity didn't have any of that, isn't it? They had a lot of perfume, had a lot of theology. But they needed eyesalve, God's Holy Spirit, to massage their eyes and let them look for the coming of the Lord, let them look at the Bible, let them look at the Word. They know how to say "aaaaamen" just exactly right. They had the perfume; they had all the ointments; but they needed eyesalve, the Lord said. Said, "You need a little salve to go on your eyes, and it'll open them up."

L-194 Used to be, when I was a little boy... I've told this, I believe; I might've said it at the church. Just comes to my mind now. I was raised down in the mountains of Kentucky, partly, and we lived in an old clapboard house. Mom, he heared... We had a--had a little old place upstairs, and we had a mattress of--of straw. And then on top of that mattress of straw was a feather tick. I don't know whether you know what a feather tick is or not or straw bed; an old bed, we was too poor. Pop and mom had the bedstead downstairs. And so we climbed up a little ladder and got in the top, and mom would put, some--some--sometimes, a piece of canvas over the covers and things, to keep the... You know, you can stand--lay there and count the stars between them old clapboards put on with the light of the moon, you know, and them big holes in the roof like that.


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