<TITLE>21. Par 79-81</TITLE>L-79 I said, "You unholy-rollers down there. I couldn't ever sleep for you. Unholy-rollers." I said, "If we are holy-rollers then you are unholy-rollers. See?" I said that... I said, "You would be a poor...?... if he'd set there and said, 'Oh, yeah, see, it's a home run.'" I said, "You say you wasn't very much enthused. You knocking straw hats down over one another's head, and slapping one another, and shaking and everything like that." I said, "When the preacher gets in the pulpit and hits one of them home runs like that, and see them saints open up the way, and see heaven before them, they holler, 'Glory, glory; I see it; I see it. Hallelujah, hallelujah.'" I said, "They just starting the King's highway; that's all."
There it is. See? Yes. Oh, yes, they--they... It's strange how they miss it, but I guess it's just to be that way. It's all cut out by God, and I guess He... That's the way it's supposed to be.

L-80 Now, how does a doctor ever find what kind of medicine that to work on a person with? Yes, they're afraid of the new birth. You know what? The reason they're afraid of the new birth... because... Listen, excuse me, my sisters, will you? I'm--I--I... This is a mixed audience, but you listen to your doctor; I--I am your brother. Any birth is a mess I don't care where it's at. If it's in the pigpen, in the barnyard, or if it's in the pink decorated hospital room, it's a mess. And the new birth is too. It will make you squall, and bawl, and wash all that paint off your face. It--it'll do things for you that you didn't think you'd do. You'll carry on like you never did think you'd do. It's a mess.
But you know, before you can be borned, you have to die, and some people die awful hard. They kick, and bawl, and scream, and carry on. "But unless a corn of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone." If you want to bring forth fruit, die to yourself and your own man-made theology, and be borned again of the Spirit and the resurrection. That's right. Get rid of the old spirit of selfishness and dryness that's in you. Take on new Life. It's messy.

L-81 Unless a grain of corn falls in the ground and rots, unless a man rots to his own theology, 'less you rotten to Methodist theology, 'less you rotten to Baptist theology, unless you rotten to Pentecostal theology... Until you rot to those things and give yourself into the hands of God, then the old man will die, and the new man will be born, Christ Jesus we will rise. Glory. In the power and the resurrection of--of Christ and the life that was in Christ will be in you, and, "These signs shall follow them that believe." That's what's the matter? Yes. There's where it's at.


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