<TITLE>30. Par 167-173</TITLE>L-167 How he comes in and just makes it so beautiful. "Oh, they spoke in tongues. They--they--they're the best people you ever seen." Don't you believe that. Be leery.
I hope the Word's not boring you. Born Christians grow into the statute of Christ as they live. They're borned again, and their lives begin to shape like a baby. It takes form and begins to grow. First thing you know, here they are in the full statute. Amen. There you are. Day after day, year after year, they stay the same. Now, come back to the Word, "If ye abide in Me..."

L-169 They say, "I got born again, hallelujah, I joined the... I joined this. I joined. I don't know; last year I believed in Jesus' Name; now I--I backed it out now; I--I believe this. I did believe you had to be holy, but I--I... So-and-so said..." Wanderers, tossed about with every wind of doctrine... See? There you are.
But be borned of the Spirit and grow into the statute of Christ. You see it, Brother Dauch? Growing into the statute of Christ. Through your life, proves... Like if you were borned a prophet, you'll remain that. If you were borned a Christian, you'll remain that. "If ye abide in Me and My Words abide in You..." This grows you up into the statute of Christ, not some young lawyer beating, screaming, crying, tell you this, that, other, make a lot emotions; but somebody who's growed into the statute of Christ, through the years has seasoned out and proved, standing at the helm. No other... "On Christ the solid Rock we stand, all other grounds is sinking sands." Let denominations and creeds come, go, let isms; keep me humble, Lord, stay right with the Word and move right on through the stream. She'll guide us to the shore. Full statue-ment...

L-171 Now look, if we see how it turns out here, and you can't change after death... Now, you watch these people that come in, gets all the sensations and things, run out and tomorrow they're this way. Have you seen it? Hundreds of them. See? And you see, you--you see what happens. And now, what if them people died in that state? Death doesn't change it.
So, O Christians, in closing this Words, let me say this. Let us turn to Him and His Word with all sincerity. Come humbly like Christians, and be born again of His Spirit. And when you are born again, you are vindicated a Christian by the fruits that you bear. You get that, Sister Peckenpaugh? You are a Christian by your fruits that you bear. "By their fruits you shall know them." That's a vindication. You might not know your abc's, but yet you can be a lady, a Christian. You might be hated of the world (If you do it because something you've done, you should be.), but if you're hated for His sake, that's different.

L-173 You might not--you might not be a theologian. Look at the blind man that was born blind. Jesus healed him. He had been born from birth; he didn't even have eyeballs. And Jesus made him well, healed him. And when that man came to see, and the Pharisees questioned him, said, "Who was he?" They couldn't deny that something had been done. Now, the man was not a theologian. He couldn't argue like preachers would do, little technique things; he couldn't explain to them. He didn't know the Testament. He didn't know how the Messiah was to be born and the works He was to do. The man didn't know it. He wasn't a theologian. But what did he do? They said, "Give God praise. We are theologians, and we know He's a sinner."


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