<TITLE>07. Par 41-45</TITLE>L-41 That's how someone got it the other day. I've got a lot of letters on that, "Hybrid Religion," that I made a remark over in... The Bible said that a illegitimate, called "bastard child," could not enter the congregation of the Lord for ten generations, which would be four hundred years that a illegitimate child could not come into the congregation of the Lord. That's how bad that hybriding was; that was a woman that let another man live with her in order to bring forth a child, that that child was hybrid, not by its father but by some other man. See? And that was so evil before God, it taken ten generations to ever breed that out again, before God.
But that doesn't apply to this age. You have a new birth now. They don't... They had just one birth back there, that was the actual sexual breeding. We have this new birth now which is the spiritual, that breeds out all the cull. And we are new creatures in Christ Jesus, borned again of the Spirit of God: new creatures. And the word "creature," if some of you good scholars here that understand (if you don't, you might look it up), the creature comes from the Greek word of "a new creation." Oh, the same as you are a creature here born sexually, you are then a new creation borned heavenly. Of--in God's new creation of a new man. New creation, that's a birth. But it has to be a birth. Just the same as the natural birth is necessary, the spiritual birth is just as necessary as the natural birth.

L-43 A young couple might get married and say, "Our first little boy, we're going to call John." If he's never born, John's never here. That's all. The same thing, you might... How many mythical ideas you build up about heaven, how great it is, if you're not born again you'll not be there. That's all. See? It's just got to be that way, 'cause it's got to be a birth. God has laid His laws down and everything works according to His laws. See?

L-44 Now, in the--these... There is a remnant of Jews to be saved. And we're going to take them first, because it places... Now, there's always three classes of people all the time, constantly. And keep--bear them in mind: that is, the--the believer, make-believer, and unbeliever, all those three. And there is a Jew, which is a cast-off, because giving us a chance; there is a lukewarm church; and there is a Spirit-filled church.

L-45 One time, Charlie Bohanon was president of the--or superintendent of the southern districts of the Public Service Company, when I worked for them. I was just studying then the Scripture, as a boy. And he said, "Billy, anybody..." Said, "John must've eat some red pepper and had a nightmare out there on the--on the Isle of Patmos."
I said, "Mr. Bohanon, you shouldn't have said that." He was my boss, supervisor.
He said, "Well, who in the world could understand that?"
I said, "It's understood. It'll be understood when the Holy Spirit's ready to reveal it." That's right.
And he said, "Oh, my." Said, "I tried to read it, and my pastor tried to read it." Said, "We got in such an awful fix." Said, "We had the--the bride setting on Mount Sinai." See? And said, "Then we had the bride with the dragon spurting water out of his mouth to make war with the remnant of the woman's seed. We had the bride up in heaven, all three; the same time."
I said, "That's without spiritual understanding." See?
He said, "Well, there they are, all the three at the same time."
I said, "Yes, sir, but that's not the way they were placed. See, you called the hundred and forty-four thousand the Bride, which they wasn't; they was the Jews. And the one that the dragon spurted water out of his mouth to make war with was the remnant, the leftovers of the woman's seed that kept the commandments and had the testimony of Jesus. And the Bride was in glory." See?
The hundred and forty-four thousand, 14th chapter of Revelations, was standing on Mount Sinai (That's exactly true.) having their Father's Name in their forehead. That is exactly right. The Jew, the remnant of the Jew...


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