<TITLE>13. Par 130-144</TITLE>L-130   You know, the sheep isn't asked to manufacture wool. No. He can't manufacture it. These gifts cannot be manufactured by emotion. This Church cannot be manufactured by organization. A sheep bears wool because he is a sheep. He can't help bearing wool, for his whole system is made up to bear wool. We must be what we are inside, not something outside.

L-131 How can we know what's right, then speak something contrary? Did not Jesus say, "You hypocrites! How can you say good things, when, out of the abundance the heart, speaketh the mouth?" See? We must be sure that when we speak these things, that they're correct.

L-132   Now, to hurry up. And I must hurry, because I guess I'm too late now. Will you bear with me just a minute longer? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Yes.

L-133 Isaiah learned right here. No matter how great the organization was, how great the man was, though God had give him thousands and millions of dollars of this age that we're living in, that meant not one thing before God. His Word was...

L-134 His Word is His ultimate, and that settles it. You must keep His Word. Humble yourself, with It.

L-135 Notice. Then we find out that he done something contrary to the Word, and he was cursed by it, no matter how great he was.

L-136 How great David was, a man after God's own heart, yet got away from the Word, "Thou shalt not commit adultery."

L-137 But David was lifted up. He thought, "Well, God don't pay no attention to this." God pays attention to every thought that you think of. Let your thoughts be exactly right. What was the matter? Now, it's because that he forgot it. He for-... He went away from it. Never forgot it, 'cause he was told better.

L-138   Now, God puts his man in a place, and he will not accept another. There's no one can take the other man's place.

L-139 A Brother Green here, a few moments ago, that music. I--I... Long time since I heard Brother Green, and it really thrilled my heart, a good man.

L-140 But I was reading, in the days of Mrs. McPherson, when I seen some of the things that went on. Mrs. McPherson was a--was a influential woman, but I noticed that every lady minister had to carry her Bible just the way Mrs. McPherson. Oh, my!

L-141 And we--we find the same thing, there is ten thousand Billy Graham's today. Did you ever notice them, try to talk just like him?

L-142 You be what you are. Stay what you are. You can't be Billy Graham, and Billy Graham can't be you. Your place is just as important as Billy Graham. If you're working for the popularity of the world, you might try to impersonate; you'll get nowhere in the Kingdom of God. "I'd rather be a doormat at the house of God." Stay with what you are, what God made you. Oh! How we could say...

L-143 The reason they do that, is because they're not conscious that God is watching. See? You lose the very thought of God being there, listening at you. God is putting down everything you're thinking about. And He knows it, in His recording book. Your thoughts are louder in Heaven than your voice is on the earth. Think the right thing.

L-144   As I said to little Joseph, I said, "A--a little boy is born in this world, he stands right in the middle of the road, and he's pointed to Calvary, to Christ. There's a tree on either side of the road. One on the left side, which I'll call 'the wrong,' if he just starts smacking little boys in the face because they smacked him. And if they start doing these things, it pulls that little boy, with the influence, and makes him crooked. But if he takes this other side of the road, which is the Holy Spirit, He points him straight to Calvary, and keeps him that way. It makes you grow straight. Your thoughts, it's just as easy to think good thoughts as it is to think bad. Just as easy to think good of those who speak evil of you, as it is vice versa. And, a lot better, it'll make you grow straight." See? Stay straight with God.
Now, to hurry up.


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