<TITLE>16. Par 67-70</TITLE>L-67 I noticed another thing, Mr. Durney, Chris, then I noticed those little pine trees. I thought, "Well now, that's those great big denominations, said, 'Oh, we once had a John Wesley. We once had a Martin Luther. We once had a Sankey, a Finney, a Knox, a Calvin.'" That's right. But you see what you got now?
Them men believed in God, practiced Divine healing and all kinds of miracles. That's right. But now, what have you got? A denomination with a weary wind blowing. Every time God sends down a rushing mighty wind, like He did on the day of Pentecost, you know what you say? "Oooh, don't go out to that. It's of the devil. Oooh, the days of miracles is past. There is no such a thing as Divine healing. Oooh, we got it wrote on our creeds, no such a thing as Divine healing." Dead, can't--not flexible.

L-68 Now, I noticed then, beneath that, there had been some seeds fall out of them pines. And if you ever studied pine trees, the only way they can reproduce themselves is that heat to fall and open up that cone and let the seed go into the ground, and up come a new generation. Another tree. And when the wind blowed, them little fellows didn't groan. They just frolicked in the wind.
I thought, "Well, what's He blowing the wind for?" Well, you see, every time the wind blows, it moves the little tree, and it pulls on the roots, loosens it up so it can go down and get a better hold. And I thought, "That's it, Lord." I thought, "Mr. Durney will think I'm crazy, but I do feel like jumping up on one of these limbs here and running up-and-down here, like one of them squirrels, just screaming at the top of my voice, "That's it." We once had a Church that believed in Divine healing. We once had a Martin Luther. We once had a John Wesley. But now, what are you? A dead statue.
But beneath all of that (Blessed be the Name of God.) we still have the Seed of God that's produced another Church. Something has brought forth a Church that believes that God is the living God. And when God sends that rushing Pentecostal wind down, they just sway and frolic in it. You say, "They're green." But they're having a good time. And they're growing. If they're green, they got life. If you're not a little bit green, why, you don't have any life.

L-69 A little Norwegian, here not long ago, come in and got saved in the meeting. He went back up to his boss. He said, "Oh, Dory to Dod." He said, "Praise Thee, Lord, I done dot the Holy Dhost."
His boss said, "What's you talking about?"
He said, "I--I went down to church and," said, "God give me the Holy Ghost. Wery, wery, wery good I feel."
He said, "You must belong to that bunch of nuts down there."
He said, "Praise God for the nuts." He said, "You know what?" Said, "If it... You take like an automobile. If it didn't have any nuts in it, it'd be a big bunch of yunk."
That's the way. If we can't have somebody in here that's got enough strength, and enough power, and enough faith in God to hold the thing together, what have we got but a big denominational junk. That's right. Praise God for the nuts that holds the thing together.

L-70 As I preached to you last night, when a man gets the Holy Spirit, he acts crazy anyhow. But he's only acting that to the people of the world. To God... He's a glorious Father.
Look at David when he danced around the ark, and his wife set up there and said, "You embarrass me." A queen, in other words, he... "I--I am a king's daughter, and you were out there and run around, screaming around that ark, dancing like that."
David said, "You didn't like that? Watch this." And around and around he went again, danced around and that. Said, "Watch that."
And God looked down out of heaven and said, "David, thou art a man after My own heart." Now, it depends on whose heart that you belong to. If you belong to the heart of the world, you'll act like the world. But if you belong to the heart of God, you'll do things the world knows nothing about. So much deceit goes on and on and on.


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