<TITLE>05. Par 18-20</TITLE>L-18 We've had a lot of great moves in our great big churches, and try to be bigger than the other fellow, mowing the other fellow over, and working for our organizations, denominations. What have we got? We're hatching out a bunch of hybrid people, instead of borned again children of God. That's right.
Hybrid--one of the ruinations of the world. A hybrid can never cross himself again. When a mule is ever born... A mule cannot be nothing else but a mule. That's all he is. He's born, he's a mule. He's a half-breed. He's between a horse and mule. He don't know who his papa is, and who his mama is, where he come from, or where he's going. He's just ignorant as he can be. He hasn't got no, no gentleness to him. You can talk to him, he will just stick his ears out and nicker, "haw, haw," with his big ears out.
Sometimes I get around and preach to a lot of them mules, that knows no more about God than a Hottentot knows about a Egyptian knight. Stick their ears out and say, "The days of miracles is past. There's no such a thing." It's a hybrid. He might belong to a Pentecostal organization that... Might belong to any other organization, but a borned again man and woman...

L-19 Anything I love is a hybrid horse... or not a hybrid horse, a real gentle pedigreed horse. What I like is a pedigreed Pentecostal experience: one who knows were they come from, knows what's got a hold of them, and knows where they're going, with a spirit of gentleness, sweetness, and Holy Spirit, some with tolerance and fellowship, reach across the line, and shake hands with any brother, take him in--he's a brother citizen of the same kingdom.
No matter how he was baptized, or sprinkled, or poured, or what he did, or throwing his head, or jump up and down, or whatever he done, he's a brother anyhow. As long as he's got the Holy Ghost, he's your brother. And a real pedigreed, borned again Pentecostal man and woman believe that with all your heart, and that's...?... Certainly...?...

L-20 These twin revivals, one brings forth a man that wants to be intellectual; wants to be schooled. They're trying to dodge that issue of new birth. The church is trying to dodge it. Today we take the people in by water baptisms, put them in the church by water baptism. You might put them in the church by water baptism, but you'll never put them into Christ by water baptism. You got to be borned in there by the Spirit. That's right.
As I've often said, I say again. I don't care what kind of a birth it is, any birth is a mess. If it's in a pig pen, or if it's in a corn shock, or if it's in a pink decorated hospital room, it's a mess. And so is the new birth a mess. It'll make you do things that you never thought you'd do. It'll make you weep, bawl, cry, and raise up your hands, and turn all kinds of shines, and everything else. And you'll act disgraceful before a starchy, self-styled group. But you don't care, as long as you get birth out of it.


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