<TITLE>16. Par 54-57</TITLE>L-54 Just remind me when mama... When we was little kids we was raised awful poor, and so we didn't have much to eat. And mom used to... Pop used to get some meat skins from the bakery down there, where they'd bake them hams and things. And--and they'd... Mrs. Goodman, an old German woman, she... They used to bake the hams.
They cut these skins off the hams, and papa would go down and get them. And mama would put them in the bread pan. Oh, they done forgot the bread pan long ago, up in my country. 'Course, not you southerners. And they put the old meat skins in there, and put them back in the oven and bake them out, you know, like that; and get the grease out of it to go in the corn bread. And we made corn cakes for breakfast. We had sorghum molasses and corn cakes. And that's what we lived on.
Dinner time, we had poke-greens, if it was up yet, black-eyed peas, or something like that. And we had such poor eating and so forth.

L-55 Mom... Every Saturday night... in school... she'd give us all a bath, all in the same tub, same water, just add a little more, you know. Just come down from the... to the... Give the little one first, and the last one got the dirt of all of them, but we made it. We made it.
Cleanliness is not so much that you wash the outside; but what about the inside? Whited walls? Polish the outside of the sepulcher, but inside, dead men's bones. You're so close today, all the telecast and things, that you keep the dirt off your hands, and the nice detergent. And that's all a lie.

L-56 I come home the other day. Seen something on--on the television, or telecast, or something another, standing down at the filling station. This man said, "Oh, you don't even have to wash dishes no more. Just put it in there. It takes everything right out. Just set it up."
I said, "I'll do the dishes for you, Meda." I wanted... I went and got me a bottle of this stuff, and I said, "I'll do the dishes." And I dumped her in there, and suds raised about like this. And I set the dishes down, and let them set a half hour, and took out... The eggs was still on it. Nonsense. That's what they get all this... When you hear all this big advertisement, when anything's so advertised, there's nothing to it. If the product's any good it sells itself.
That's the way with old-time religion. You don't have to have great big things out, and big organizations. It'll sell itself, if it's got the power of God in it. Got a lot of sin remove you, called "Join this," and "We're the holy this, and the holy that." It's holy nothing. That's right. God is the only One Who can remove sin: the Blood of Jesus Christ. And He does it when you fall in His wash-pan. That's right. He's the only One can do it.

L-57 Samson presumed that everything was all right though. God had just done so many things for him. That's what we thought: God done so many things. Israel thought the same thing. "Well, God's did it before. What if we make--we do this. We don't care. God's with us." They presumed they was all right. But they found out. The battle went the other way.
Now, when we go up to take the land, we find out we're in the same position. That's right.
You know, Achan thought the same thing. He had the commandments of God not to take nothing out of that cursed city. (I just got about twelve more minutes. I got to get over to that motel. I want to drive this one down a little bit tighter. See?) Look here. That's exactly what we did. See? A nice Babylonian garment that Achan took, and a wedge. He thought... That city was cursed, and everything in it was cursed. And the denominations is proved cursed. That sounds horrible. But it's the truth.


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