<TITLE>34. Par -</TITLE>L-56-5 One day he said, "I want to get some of that heartfelt religion."
He said, "When do you want it?"
He said, "Now."
Said, "Well, let's go get it."
He went out and he said, "Here's a hay loft. It's nice," he said that--"my wife won't hear me and anything out here," Said... (That's the way people want it, you know, hand it to them on a platter.) said, "We'll kneel down here."
The old brother said, "You don't get it here."
Well, so he went down to the stall; he said, "Will we get it here?"
Said, "No."
He said, "We'll go over at the corn crib."
Said, "No."
Said, "Where do you get it?"
Said, "Follow me."
He pulled up his pants' legs, walked out in the pig pen as hard as he could in the mud, said, "Come out here, here's where you get it."
He said, "I don't want to come out there."
Said, "You don't want it yet, Boss. (That's right.) You don't want it."

L-57-3 You know, Naaman thought that too, Naaman. Naaman said, "Now, I want to get rid of my leprosy."
Elijah said, "You go down there to the muddy Jordan, where she empties into the Mediterranean there." Said, "She's muddy as it can be. Dip down there seven times."
"Oh," Naaman said, "My goodness. Aren't the waters better up around Damascus and up there. Oooh, they're so pretty and clear up there." (My, we seen it here the other night on the film here, you know.), "Oh," said, "why--why we don't want to go down there; I can't go down there. I... You know who I am? I'm captain of the guard; I'm the general of the host."
"Well, if you want to get rid of your leprosy, go on down there. But if you want to keep it, go on up there."
He said, "Dip," and I can see him walking out in that water. Could you imagine? Oh, that hurt his prestige. I can see him, you know, tip-toeing out like this, nose-holding, you know.

L-57-6 That's the way some people try to come to Christ, "I'd like to get healed; I'd like to (you know) go to heaven, but, oh, my, what if the rest of them look like that."
Oh, you hypocrite, you'll never get it anyhow. That's all there is to it anyhow. See? No. You'll never get it anyhow. Don't worry; you don't want it enough yet. That's right. You don't want it enough; that's exactly. When you're ready to get it, you'll get it all right. God will give it to you when you're ready. All right.

L-58-2 Now, are the denomination of caterpillar's eating up all things. Notice, each insect, each one of these insects, when he was working on the Tree, he made a way for the other one was going to follow him. Oh, he's a smart guy. Yes, sir. See? He took away the fruits (See?), the Spirit, so what? He could take the fellowship away (See?), the leaves. So the other side come along and he made his own living took the leaves off. What did he do that? He took the leaves off so there'd be no coolness and freshness so there the people could see, so he could get into the bark. See?
He'd get into the bark, and bore into the ridge, and take the doctrine away from them (See?), the very thing that supports the Life. And then, as soon as he got holes bored into that, he had the next fellow come along, the old sucker caterpillar, that's took the denomination and sucked it up and organized it so you can't get it. And what did the Life do? Go right down into the roots (That's exactly right.), run it right down in the roots. All right.
Now, the same insect bored to the heart till it got to the Life. It kept coming through the fruit, through the leaves, through the bark, until it got right to the heart, the lifeline. All right.

L-58-5 Now, let's look at the destroyer at work. The first... (I'm going to have to skip some of this here, I believe. No, I ain't. All right. Look.) The first thing this fellow did as soon as he got into the heart of the Tree...
Let's watch him back in his first stage, before he ever got started too good; let's watch him. Now, let's watch him at work. The first thing that he condemned was to destroy the first, real, precious fruit Tree that God had on earth.


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