<TITLE>12. Par 39-42</TITLE>L-39 Not long ago I was setting, eating dinner with an old Methodist minister, gracious old saint of God. He had the Holy Spirit in his life. And we were listening to the Agricultural Hour come on from Louisville. And the 4H club had had a machine that they could perfect a grain of corn so perfect, that it would make just as good a corn bread as the one that was growed out of the field--same kind of corn flakes. And actually, you could cut them open, put them in a laboratory, and its heart was in the right place, the right amount of moisture, and potash, and all that's in the corn. You could not separate them. Once mixing them together, you could not tell one from the other, it was so perfect.
He said, "And the only way that you can tell which is which is bury them. The one that the machine made rots, and that's all of it. But the one that God growed, its got a life in there that'll rise up again."

L-40 A man might look like a Christian, impersonate a Christian, or walk like a Christian, or so forth. But unless that germ of life is there, he cannot rise again.
Jesus said, "I come that they might have Life," Zoe, God's own life in them. And there's... Everything that had a beginning has an end. It's those things which had not a beginning that has no end. There's only one thing that never had a beginning; that was God. And we become His children, part of Him, then Zoe, God's own Life, Eternal Life, is imparted to us. And that's the only way that we can live. And that's the only way that our lost friends out here, even church members, can ever live again, is because Zoe has been imparted to them, and we become a part.

L-41 Did you notice on the day of Pentecost, how that His great Pillar of Fire which we all know was the Messenger of the covenant, which was Jesus Christ, that... Moses esteemed the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt, for he forsook Egypt, following that great Messenger, this Light.
On the day of Pentecost, when this great Light came in there, God divided Himself. Tongues of fire set upon each of them, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and begin to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance, God separating Himself from one Being to being in His Church, dividing His Life with His people. That's the message we must get to the people. They'll perish without it. They have to.

L-42 My own mother just passed away recently. When I stood by her side, and she said, "Billy..." All of our children was--her children was standing there, what was living: Two of us was gone out of ten. And the girl... She looked at me, and she said... First she looked at Deloris. She said, "My last, and my first." And mother was a gracious Christian, and I'd led her to Christ and baptized her many years ago.
And she said, "Deloris, you've been good to me. You've helped me. You have--you have done many a washing for me when I've gotten old and can't wash. You've come down to clean up my house. You'd do these things." She said, "I love you, honey."
And Deloris, a young Christian, standing there choking, looking down, and she said, "Mother, it was so little."
She said, "Billy, you seen that I didn't go hungry."
And I said, "Mama, how many times have you walked away from the table so I could have something to eat, when we were--had nothing to eat?" And I said, "It was just a duty, mother."
And she said, "Then you've kind of been a spiritual guide to me, Billy. You baptized me. You've told me the way of life."
Said, "Mama, you know our background is Catholic." And I said, "Then I--I went to the church, but they said, 'This is the church,' and it was contrary to the Word. I went from church to church, and I found out it was so contrary. So I stayed with the Word, Mother." And I said, "I've tried to tell you what was right and lead you to Christ." And the dear old saint went away to meet God. And then I committed her soul back to God.


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