<TITLE>14. Par 41-44</TITLE>L-41 Like the little darkie was being ordained one day, and the elders standing around said, "Lord, wrap him up in burlap sacks and pour kerosene on him and set him afire for the Gospel." That's what we need today: on fire. Turn him loose then and let him run.
Used to brand calves. We'd take a calf, I know what you've roped and hogtied a many one, I guess. We used to brand them down. Someone said to me, "Aren't you ashamed to pack that hot iron and stick it on his side?"
"No." I stuck it on his side. He had a kicking fit, all right. He squalled and bellowed; when he turned him loose he had a spasm, he really run. But we knowed who he belonged to from then on (That's right.), as long as he lives. And I tell you, brother; it takes a lot of grace to come up to the altar and stay there till the Holy Ghost burns a seal down in you. You may scream, and cry, and act funny, but you know where you belong from then on. That's right. For you're sealed in the Kingdom of God by the Holy Spirit. It is the seal.

L-42 Remember, the Holy Spirit come to seal those who God foreknew. That's right. That's right. He just didn't come down, Jesus, and say, "I'll die; maybe somebody will have pity and look at Me and say, 'Well, I suppose.' Maybe if they'll think I suffered so much it'll break their hearts and they'll come." No, no. You won't come anyhow. You can't tell a pig he's wrong by eating on a manure pile. He just tell you right quick, if he could talk, "I tend to my business; you tend to yours." See?
It takes a conversion. God has to do it. No man comes to Jesus except God draws him first. It takes the work of the Holy Spirit to even turn your heart. Takes God. Someone said, "I sought God and sought God." No, no, no. God sought you, not you seeking God. God seeks you.

L-43 All right, the Holy Spirit doesn't take in just any kind of a wife, doesn't take in somebody that smokes, and somebody that drinks, and somebody that lives immoral, and somebody that carries along with all kinds of worldly things, 'cause He said, "If you love the world, the things of the world, the love of God is not even in you." But the Holy Spirit come to seal into the body the wife of Jesus Christ, that He foreknew before the foundation of the world. When He... By being God in foreknowledge, He could see who would receive Him and who would not. So the Holy Spirit come to get that Bride. That's the one He takes in. But the church says, "Oh..."

L-44 Used to sing a little song, I hope I don't sound sacrilegious. We had a little song we used to sing, "'Come and dine,' the Master calleth." We had a little song and made it a little different, forgive me if I stumble you anyway. Said...
"Come and join," the pastor calleth,
"Come and join";
 You can have your ice cream suppers all the time;
 Tell the dirty jokes,
 Chew a cud and puff a smoke,
 Oh, the pastor calls to the congregation,
"Come and join." (Instead of come and dine.)
What a difference. Take a man, as long as he got a little money and can pay in, put him on the deacon board and got two or three wives, put him on there anyhow because they're influential men in the city. I don't care if the city hates them; I want them influential in heaven where the Holy Spirit, where they can have some influence among the people. But it's just come and join. Everything...
I asked a girl some time ago, "Are you a Christian?"
And she said, "I give you to understand; I'm an American." Like that had anything to do with it. She was in Switzerland. Like that had anything to do with it.
Brother Bosworth said he asked a woman one time, she said, "I'll give you to understand I burn a candle every night." Now, like that's got anything to do with Christianity: burn a candle every night. Got to be borned into this, the Kingdom of God.


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