<TITLE>12. Par 93-101</TITLE>L-93 Look at the days when little, old Simeon, unknown man, no reputation, we know nothing of him in the Bible. But the Bible said, "It was revealed to him by the Holy Ghost (There he is; there you are.) that he'd not die till he seen the--the Lord's Christ."
Then look at who was John the Baptist, some kind of a odd-like fellow, a woodsman out in the woods. It was revealed to him. He come forth preaching the message. Look at that.
Who was little Ann?
The little virgin, Mary, down in the--the city of Nazareth (mean as Jeffersonville) and where sin and everything abounded, but she'd kept herself pure because she knowed someday there was a coming Messiah. See?
Joseph, a carpenter, had lost his wife and--and was courting this little girl. And it was through there the Holy Spirit come to that. And then the world comes around and black-names it, like "holy-roller, Pentecostal," (See?), black-named it. "Why, that, she... That child born out of holy wedlock." See, they believed that, and it looked like it was. But God does that to blind the eyes of the wise and prudent, and reveal it to babes such as will learn.

L-97 I hope there's enough background to when I hit something after while. I'm going to show you. You see this oil? Now, what I've told you, the background, to see that it isn't man, it's God, I'll point to this. All right.
Now, "Come up hither," was the voice. And when he opened he heard the trumpet sound, and then immediately John was in the Spirit, was in the Spirit, and as quick as he got in the Spirit he begin to see things. You begin to see things when you get in the Spirit. First you got to get in the Spirit. Is that right?

L-99 Now, what if you went to a ball game, and you say, "I sure love baseball." Uh-huh. And you get you a front row seat, right down in the box seat, and you're watching the Yankees or Bulldogs, ever who they are, playing. And they're all having a big game out there.
And your side's just about to lose, and all at once the modern Babe Ruth winds up his bat like this and says, "See way over yonder?" Got three men on base. "Whammy," and he drives it plumb out of sight, takes off his hat and fans hisself, walks down to the first base and looks around, all them guys going to second base, shake hands with the second baseman, walk, walk quietly right back home, bow his... Why, my, my, the screams, the jumps, the hollers, the shouts of "hurrahs." Why, they'd...

L-101 I've actually seen them take these... You remember the old straw kady hat? I went to a baseball game one day and seen a guy hit a home run. And this guy setting in front of me with a straw hat, he got all excited; he took his hat, just pulled it right down, just put him a collar around like this where the top went out. Why, he was having him a big time. He--he was so beside himself he didn't know what he was doing, just kicking and hurrahing and a-hollering and a-jumping. Well, now, you know what I think, he sure had... He was a--he was a... He loved baseball. He was a baseball fiend, just like a cigarette fiend or a whiskey fiend.
I'm a Jesus fiend. Yeah. I just love that. I... If you get to be a Jesus fiend (You see?), a fiend after something...
Then could you imagine that guy say, "Oh, sure, I'm a baseball fiend." And his side's about to lose, and he seen them come up and win the game like that, he looked around and, "Yeah, suppose that was all right."
Say he loves baseball...
"Oh, he's something." You'd say, "Why, you--you don't like it, do you? Something wrong with you." Every good baseball fiend would say, "What's wrong with that guy? Something wrong with him. Look at him set there." Huh. That's just so...
Put two-and-two together now. See? Oh, when you're a fiend of Jesus, and you feel the Holy Spirit sink in those Words, then something screams out. Oh, you get beyond yourself.


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