<TITLE>15. Par 62-66</TITLE>L-62 God is a... Word is a seed. Now, you take a little tree. Like a little... You take... Many of you people have orchards. You take a little apple tree (now, watch this) and set that little apple tree as a slip. It's just about that big; come from a seed. Well, did you know every apple that'll ever be in that tree is in it right then? Did you know that? You say, "How many apples will that tree produce?" Maybe a hundred and fifty bushel, two hundred bushel, five hundred bushel in the life of the tree.
But now, all five hundred bushels of apples is in it when it's just about that big. If it isn't, pray, tell me where it comes from? See? It's in it.

L-63 Now, what do you do with the tree? You set it out, put it down in the ground, and plant it. And then you water it. Now, what's the little tree do? The little tree has to draw water from the earth. And it has to drink and drink and drink. Has to drink over it's portion. And as it drinks, it begins to push out. And after while, it pushes out limbs. Then it pushes out leaves. Then it pushes out blossoms. Then it pushes out apples. It's just drinking and pushing.
And that's the way that a Christian is. We are planted in Christ Jesus, which, to my interpretation, is the inexhaustible Fountain of Life. And the only thing we have to do, if you're sick, if you need something, when God fills you with the Holy Spirit, you are... By one Spirit we are all planted, baptized into one body. And the only thing we have to do then is just drink, drink, until we push out Divine healing, glories, and take away the old worry and doubt, and push it away, and bring in new life, produce new fruits of the Spirit. Just drink, drink the seed.

L-64 I was with Mr. Durney. Some of my people here will know that I've told this. We went up on the mountain to get a goat. And on the road down, we come through a--an old burn, or something. And I... About a bear I'd seen down there, I guess you remember it, Mr. Durney. The old bear, I said, "His hide is pretty heavy to have to pack down that mountain."
And I was looking him in the face, and I was getting a little tired. So as it got along up towards dark that night, I noticed we come into a place where the burn had left a few snags standing up. And they were just as bare as they could be.

L-65 And we were resting a little bit, and I--and I thought there that... going to the horse. And the wind blowed. And when the wind blowed, the most hideous sound went, "Oooh." I thought, "My, looks like tombstones. This is a wary place." And I thought, "Father, what is this?" It reminds me of somebody trying... I'll say, "Are you a Christian?"
"I'm a Presbyterian."
"I'm a Baptist."
"I'm a Methodist." You know what it is? It's you trying to hold on and get to heaven by belonging to an organization. Now, that organization is all right. But remember, every time that an organization springs up, God leaves it.
You don't go to heaven by an organization. You go to heaven by this new Seed of God being born in your heart. That's right.

L-66 And I heard that mournful noise. And I said, "This is a weary place to be. I hope we don't make a fire and stay here." And the moon had come out. And them old shiny trees like that. I thought, "Isn't that a horrible thing?" An old tombstones like place, weary... What was it saying? "Once we were great swaying pines, but the fire burnt us over."
And that's the way it is today. When I ask, "Are you a Christian?" They don't know what it means to be Christian, many people; they say, "Oh, I'm Methodist."
"I'm Baptist."
"I'm Pentecostal."
"I'm Presbyterian." That don't have one thing to do with it. Except that little seed's come in here, then you can belong to anything you want to, you're a borned again Christian then. But without that, you're lost. God is a Seed; His Word is a Seed.


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