<TITLE>13. Par 48-50</TITLE>L-48 One day the old boss said to him, said, "I'd like to get some of that heartfelt religion."
Said, "Any time you want it, Boss."
And he said... One day it come a rain. He said, "Well, it's raining today, Mose. I guess we can... I'd like to get a little of that heartfelt religion that makes you so happy, and singing all the time."
Said, "Come on, Boss," And he went over there, and he went out into the barn, and he said, "Now here's a nice place here on the hay. We can kneel down and get it here."
He said, "No, you don't get it here, Boss."
He said, "Well, we will go over to the corn crib." So they went over to the corn crib. It was a nice dry place, not raining; nice, you know, the... go to sleep with the rain pattering on the roof.
He said, "But, Boss, you don't get it here."
He said, "Mose, where do you get it?"
Said, "Follow me." He went way out, till he hit the pigpen, raised up his trouser legs as far as he could, and started walking out in the mud like that. He said, "Come on, Boss."
Said, "Where you going?"
Said, "Here's where you get it. Right out here."
He said, "I--I--I--I don't want it out there." He said, "I don't want to get it out there."
Said, "If you don't want it out here, and come on these terms, then you ain't going to get it at all."
So that's just the way it is. If you can't come to God's terms, you won't get it anyhow. You've got to come to God's terms.

L-49 They dodge the new birth. Like I said the other day, the new... the birth is a mess. I don't care where you go. If it's in a pigpen, it's a mess. If it's in the haystack, it's a mess. Or if it's in a pink decorated hospital room, it's still a mess, any kind of a birth.
And the new birth is a mess, too. And it'll make a mess out of you. But you'll certainly get new Life and be a new creature when you receive it. It'll make you do things that you wouldn't think you'd do. Yes, sir. It'll make you get down there on the altar, bawl and cry, and beat, and confess all your sins. And it'll make a different person out of you.
And then, after that it'll make you act ridiculous to what you used to act. Why, you know when people gets right with God, and ever meets God anywhere, they act ridiculous to what the old life was. Paul said, "The life I once lived, and the life I now live..." It's a different one than the one he did live at one time.

L-50 Look at Moses when he met God. He was... just had all kinds of theology. He was just as full of it as much as Carter has keys. But what happened when he met God? He was afraid to go down in Egypt, but the next morning, we find him with his wife sitting a straddle a mule with a young'un on her hip; beard hanging down about like this, an old crooked stick in his hand, just a praising God, going down to Egypt. Wasn't that ridiculous looking?
Someone say, "Moses, where you going, Father Moses? Rabbi Moses, where you going? What's the matter with you, boy?"
"Going down to Egypt to take over." Going right down to take over: a one-man invasion--just like one man going to take over Russia. Why, it sounds ridiculous. But he was just happy, and that bald head a shining, that hair blowing back over his whiskers, going down to take over. Why? God said so. And the beauty part of it was, he did it. Amen!
That's what's the matter with the church nowadays. You've got to let God take over, and get all the other stuff out, take... and let God get a hold of you. Take all the knowledge you got in your head out, and lay it over to one side, and let God come in the heart. He will make something out of you, make you act different, be different. And your associates will be different. All your whole life will be different. Everything will be changed when God comes into your life. That's as certain as I know about Him. It'll change your life.


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