<TITLE>10. Par -</TITLE>L-15-1 So if we ourselves then in our ministry, and in our thoughts, and in our life, if we abide as we are, we can do no good. We've got to also die at the altar, or we'll live alone; we'll live to some denomination or some creed; we'll live to some organization. But if we die to ourselves, then the Holy Spirit will be spread forth everywhere by our lips. We've got to die.
So many today... So it is like now, that if... We must realize that we've got to die in order to bring forth new life. So He said so much in this, "If you want to see Me, you must die, die to yourself, and then you'll bring forth a new life."

L-15-3 Now, if we want to see Him, if you ever expect to see Him, you'll never see Him by some joining a church, some book of laws that you keep, some creeds that you serve. You'll see Him when you die. When you come to Calvary and are crucified to yourself, then you'll see Jesus.
"We would see Him." First, before He said anything, He pointed them to the place to find Him. Like all Gentiles or all people, you find Jesus at the cross when you're crucified with Him.

L-15-5 Today we try to find Him in everything. We try to find Him in a church building. We try to find Him in a denomination. We try to find Him in saying some creed. We try to find Him by keeping certain days, by obeying certain rituals. But we cannot find Him till we come to Calvary. There we are crucified, fall into the dust of the earth, and die to ourselves, and then reborned again. Then we find Jesus.
Oh, so many try today to hold theirself and maintain your own idea, "I've got my way of it. I believe this." But you cannot find Christ until you die to yourself and accept Him, the Word, then you find Life. (Let's see.)

L-15-7 How different today. How different today--today with the churches, or the disciples of today. What did they do? If you come to disciples today... Them disciples, before they did anything, they took these Greeks right into the Presence of Jesus. And if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, He'll have to act the same today if you're brought in His Presence.
Disciples today is so much different, for today they try to take you to a cradle, or a manger, or to a Santa Claus, or to a bunny rabbit for Easter, or something another instead of Christ. They never did bring you in the Presence of Christ. Christmas isn't Christ. No. Today they bring you some other place, to some statue, some church, some organization, some doctrinal laws, but never get you in the Presence of Christ. A real true disciple would bring you right straight in the Presence of Christ, and from there Christ would show you what you had to do.

L-16-2 Now, "The spirit is gone from Christmas," someone said today. I heard them on the radio, said, a man giving a argument, a minister, about so many people today saying, "Christmas isn't this, and we oughtn't to have Santa Claus and things." And that fellow tried to make his points clear, that if you took Santa Claus out of Christmas, you took the spirit out. You took the spirit of Santa Claus out; that's true. And the spirit of Santa Claus isn't... Santa, some myth of Germany, a German Catholic tradition, is not the spirit that makes Christmas. The Spirit Christ pointed to was the Holy Spirit, which is not a celebration, but a worship of the living God.

L-16-3 But he said, "You take Santa Claus out; there's no more spirit in Christmas." Could you imagine a minister saying that on the air? But that's what he said. Said, "You take Santa Claus out and you've got no more spirit of Christmas." Well, it might be, using the word "Christ mass"; you might not have much of that, but you take Santa Claus out of your life, open up your heart, and let Christ come in, die to these things of the world in order to have the real Christmas.
Yes, it's a lot different what it used to be, but it's changed. Not--not... Christ hasn't changed.


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