<TITLE>14. Par 48-50</TITLE>L-48 [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... "Jehovah just expects you to come on to church, and pay your tithes, and live a good life, and that's all. Don't... Look, that Messiah may be a million years from now, might not even come at all." There's a lot of Bible schools today teach that, the physical. I believe it's eighty-something percent of the so-called Christians don't believe in the physical return of Jesus. I heard it. I got some government statistics there of the different denominations. And I forget... It's worse than that, that don't believe in the virgin birth. How can anything happen? How can we build a revival in this nation? When you take the virgin birth out of Christianity, you knock the foundation from under it.
If He was the blood of a man, then He's no more than I am or you are. But He's the Blood of God. God's Holy Spirit, overshadowed the virgin and created a Blood cell, and that's the Blood of God. The Bible said we are saved through the Blood of God, not a man: God. But they deny it.

L-49 So little Zacchaeus, the little bitty short fellow, he said he got up that morning... Let's give him a little drama, for this little girl setting here. Watch him (her little bright eyes, and little hair combed down), I can imagine seeing...
You know, Rebekah, his wife, she believed Jesus, so she was just praying all the time. "O Jesus, I pray Thee, that whenever He comes into the town here, that my darling little husband... He's a good man, but he's just all tied up with them--all kind of Kiwanis meetings, and lodge parties, and all these things to..." Now, I ain't saying nothing on Kiwanis now. That's all right. See? Just some people take... 'Cause I--I believe that the Masons are all right, but the Mason Lodge will never take the place of the Church, or the Blood of Jesus Christ. All my people are Masons, and they're all right as a lodge. But it won't take the place of the Church.
And the trouble of it is, you've got the church, till it's no more than a Masonic lodge, or any other lodge. The church is a house of God where Christ lives and manifests Himself amongst the people. That's right.

L-50 Notice, so Zacchaeus. See?.. I see him go out there. He said, "Now, here they're climbing all over the gates and everything else. I--I'd never see Him, so I'm going done here; I know He always goes down Hallelujah Street. (He--He still does.) And He turns on Glory Avenue. And so I'm going down there to the corner and wait for Him."
So he goes down there, and he has his best garment on, you know. He was standing down there on the corner with his best garment, all groomed up, you know. "Wait till I see that there so-called prophet from Galilee. I will tell him a piece of my mind when I see him. He don't know how many degrees I got. And my good friend, the rabbi, has taught me a lot of things. I will tell him something. And I will tell him if He don't quit with his witchcraft around my wife, I'm going to do something to him. I will give Him a piece of my mind. I will not have my wife out there on those long night prayer meetings and things. No, sir. She's left the clubs; she quit playing cards. She's got... Oh, my, got all, even the rabbi's wife and all them, all these other people, all tore up, I tell you, with that fanaticism. I will tell him when I see him."


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