<TITLE>05. Par 20-23</TITLE>L-20 And I ought to have knowed enough about a gun to know that when I shot the first round of shells to find the powder, just between the primer and the outside ring it swoll. I ought to have knowed it was leaking there, but I never noticed it, I was so thrilled with the gun. And the next time I put a shell in and pulled it down, it went off.
I learned a lesson there. See? When you're becoming a Christian, or want to be a Christian, just don't fool around with this here handshaking stuff, this here overnight conversion. It'll blow up somewhere down along the road. Now, if that had been a Weatherby Magnum, begin a Weatherby Magnum, brought out a Weatherby Magnum, it would've been all right. It'd been made for the shell. But when you're trying to put a big shell that goes in another gun, in something that ain't able to stand it... See?

L-21 If you want to be a Christian, you be borned again. Die to yourself, and start from the bottom and come forth. There won't be no blow-ups along the road. You'll--you'll--you'll be able to hold the charge that the Holy Ghost puts in you. That's right. If you don't, you'll never be able to stand it. That's all. The Lord bless you.
That's a rude thing to say, isn't it? But I hope you get what I'm talking about. I believe that you've got to die so dead till you're no more yourself. That's all. And then, be borned again new, a new creature in Christ, built from the very bottom of your soul all the way through, a real borned again Christian. Then the Holy Spirit knows what kind of load to put in you. That's right. You'll be able to pack it.
If you try to impersonate somebody else being a Christian, you're going to blow up somewhere. There's going to be a blow somewhere in it. Don't try to impersonate. Be a real genuine article of God, or don't--just stay the way you are. See? That's right. Just don't make any confession. All right.

L-22 In the... Matthew the 12th chapter, beginning at the 38th verse...
Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee.
But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall be no sign given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation... shall condemn it: because they repented not at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
The queen of the south shall rise... in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
Now, may the Lord add His blessings to the reading of this Word.

L-23 Jesus had been rebuking that generation. If you read the previous part of the verse, the verse before it, they had called the sign that He had given them, a Scriptural sign that He was the Messiah... We spoke on it last night. And they had declared it to be Beelzebub, a fortuneteller, a devil. The very thing that they seen Him doing, those Pharisees, now, they never said it right out in their heart--in their lips. They perceived it in their hearts. They--they said it within themselves, "He is Beelzebub, the prince of the devils."
And Jesus knew what they were thinking about. And He told them, said that--that sin... "When the Holy Spirit come to perform the same sign that He'd give, a word against it would never be forgiven." He'd told the cities...


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