<TITLE>13. Par 54-58</TITLE>L-54 It started right, but the thing of it is we adopt grandchildren. God don't have any grandchildren. He ain't got grandsons; He's just got sons. We take our children in and put them of the cradle roll, like Methodists and Baptists and all of them They come into the church, and we take them in as Pentecostal; and and don't know no more about God than a rabbit knows about snowshoes. What we need today is back to the experience of God, and back with the Holy Ghost again. That's right.
Now, excuse that expression. It sounds sacrilegious. I didn't mean to say it just like that. But that's the truth. That's right. We've got to get back to... God don't have grandchildren. He has sons, but not grandsons. No place in the Bible where God had a grandson. Every person must come and pay the same price, must come the same way. God's only got one way, and that's Jesus, and you've got to come that way. Without that, there's no way of getting to Him.

L-55 Now, we find out that Moses was pretty well satisfied. Everything was running fine, and he'd lost all the burden for the people that was down there in bondage. And one day God decided He'd call him. And so He selected a place, a certain tree.
And where God comes down there's... somehow or another there's always a lot of fire where God's at. If you're around where God's at, there's a lot of noise and a lot of fire. I don't know why, but it's always been that way. That's Scriptural. Yes, sir, it's always a lot of fire. And it takes fire to move the church anyhow. You'll never do it. You'll never dress them in fig leaves. You'll never dress them in Pentecostal fig leaves. They got to get back to the fire. That's right.

L-56 One time my brother and I, when we was little boys, was walking and we see a turtle. We thought it was the funniest looking creature I'd ever seen, the way he throwed them feet. You Illinois people know what turtles are. And here he come walking. I said, "Isn't he funny looking, brother?" We walked up.

L-57 Just puts me in mind of a lot of people, when you step on them with the gospel, you know. They go, "Shuh," get back in their hull, you know. "I'm So-and-so. I belong to this organization." That don't have one thing to do with it. That's right. "I belong to So-and-so." Well, I'd be ashamed to admit it. Might be forgiveness for it if you try real hard to repent. You might be forgiven for it. God don't recognize no organizations. He recognizes the blood of His own Son, Jesus Christ. That's all. "When I see the blood I'll pass over you."
This boy and I was back there, and this old turtle. I said, "You know what I'll do, Honey? I'll make him get out of there." I went and got me a switch and I poured it on him. It didn't do a bit of good. You can't beat them into it. That's all there is to it. You can never get them back by beating them. That's right. I've been trying it for ten years and can't do it. You just can't beat then back to it.

L-58 So I said, "I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll fix him." There was a branch running along there, so I went down and stuck him down in the water. Just a few bubbles come up and that's all there was. Brother, you can baptize them face forward, backwards, three times, five times. It don't do no good. Just a few bubbles come up and that's all that's left. That's right? Or, "Bless God, I told you I'd do it." That's about all there is to it.
You know how I finally got him to move? I built me a little fire and set the old boy on it. He moved then. What the church needs is another Pentecostal fire, the Holy Spirit to make the church move back into the harness of God. Back to the harness.
God don't care what organization you belong to. He's against all of them anyhow, so when... Well, that's true. I can prove that by the Scripture. Catholics was the first organization, which was a prostitute and she had daughters. Now, you can make out your way...


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