<TITLE>19. Par -</TITLE>L-31-5 Notice now, there they were. And that Tree was planted; It was doing great work. We know they went about everywhere. The Lord... Why, on the day of Pentecost three thousand souls was added, baptized, and went into the church; and how great fellowship they had; and everybody--wasn't nobody needing anything; everybody was kind, good-hearted, and--one another. They was all one big family. Wonderful.
And there came by a little old, ugly-looking, greedy-teeth beetle that lives in four different stages, as Joel saw him. Four-stage insect destroyer come forth to destroy that beautiful Tree of God. Think of it. Now, I'm going to read off some of Joel's, what he said, Joel the 1st chapter.

L-32-2 The first thing... Now, there's four different beetles there; now, but the--it's actually one beetle. It's one beetle in four different stages. Now, watch this little old beetle come by for this--for this great, beautiful Tree of God (We'll call it a tree, which was the church).
The first was a palmerworm; that's the little thing, just a little bitty insect of a worm. What did he do, that palmerworm? He come along to destroy the fruit of the tree; that's the first thing. Now, let's go back in history and see what the first thing was: was a--a dignified group got amongst the common people. And they said, "Well, this is good that you can heal the sick, and you can do these things; that's wonderful. So you know what we ought to do? We ought to kinda get it out where the bigger class of people will understand it, the better class, the mayor, the--the judges and so forth, and the--the--the dignitaries of the city. And as long as you all are carrying on the way you are, they'll never come around you. (See?) They're afraid of you."
Somebody said that: "They still are." I guess that's about right. So that's right; they're afraid of the Holy Spirit. (Excuse me.)

L-32-5 I used to sing a little song: "It's the old..." You all ever hear "The Old Time Religion?" Anybody ever heard that song?
"Tis the old time religion..." I used to sing a little song like this years ago; I said,
It's the old time Holy Spirit,
And the devil won't go near It;
That's the reason people fear It;
But It's good enough for me.
It's so good I want no other,
For It makes me love my brother;
And It brings things from under cover,
So It's good enough for me. (That's right.)
It will make you stop your lying;
It will save you when you're dying;
It will start the devil flying;
And It's good enough for me.
That's right. That's the reason people don't want It.

L-33-1 Now, now, It's God. They didn't want Jesus; they said, "This man?" The church, the big dignified church said, "You come to tell us who we are? We'll give you to understand, we're Dr. Ph.D., L.L., Q.U.S.," and my, all this. "Why, I'm the high priest." "I'm this, that, or the other, and you tell me. Why, you were borned in sin. You're nothing but a illegitimate child. Your mother was to be--had you before you and your--the father was ever married."
He said, "Who can accuse Me of sin; who can accuse Me?"
All right. Sin is disbelieving God's Word. In other words He said, "Show Me where I'm not fulfilling the Word to the--to the--to the hilt, right where It's supposed to be. Show Me in the Scripture where My day... If I don't do the works of My Father, then don't you believe Me." Said, "Now, you claim to be that; now let's see you do it." Oh, my. From henceforth they asked Him nothing (See?); they let Him alone.
Like the devil flew into Him... I said that he thought he'd just jump in anyway, but he found out that had a million volts in that Wire. He jumped off of that One real quick (you see?), because he couldn't handle That; and that was one thing sure.


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