<TITLE>07. Par 61-69</TITLE>L-61 I said, "Lord Jesus," in my heart, "You are my Healer." I took my hand down. It was quit.

L-62   So what was the matter? The gun was trying to shoot a shell that wasn't actually made for the gun. If the gun had been built up from the beginning, a Weatherby Magnum, it would not have blowed up. But it was trying to put a Weatherby shell in a Winchester rifle, and it won't work.
And you see scars around here and over my eyes, and fifteen pieces went just below the sight. When the doctor looked in my eye, he wrote back to my friend, the doctor. He said, "The only thing I know, that God was setting on that bench with His servant. That man was with him, out on the... calling the shots, just ought to have found from his waist down. Said, "God was with him." And said, "The shot, the--the pieces of the primer, put fifteen pieces plumb behind the eyeball, just under the sight." Never bothered me one bit. Two or three days after, the face looked like hamburger, it was all dried up and gone.

L-63   But what was it? It was because that it was a shell in a gun that it wasn't made for. It had built up pressure. Now, if the gun had been made, and in this holder where the shell slipped in from the magazine into the barrel, the chamber, if that chamber had been made correctly, it would have held the pressure. And the pressure goes out this way. But instead, it was loose. And that pressure, the shell being weaker than the barrel, of course, it blew this way, and blew the gun back this way.

L-64   The barrel wasn't hurt; just blew it off. Course, it completely tore everything from around it. It could not be used no more. But the hull was still sticking in the barrel. See, it wasn't... Now, if it'd been an overloaded shell, it would have bursted the barrel. But, you see, in here, the thickest part of the gun, it blew back this way and knocked the lock loose. Now, if it'd been built up, a Weatherby magnum, it would have never blowed up. It was trying to put something in something that didn't belong there.

L-65   That's the way of a Christian experience, when people are trying to put a cold, formal confession into a powerful pentecostal Church, or experience, unless that person is built from ground up, built up, born again, regenerated. Impersonators of today, going around, trying to impersonate speaking in tongues, trying to impersonate this and impersonate that, the gifts, if they are not born again.

L-66 And if they are born again, they cannot impersonate, because they were built for those things. They're born, regenerated, remolded; not just something that's patched up, and shook hands, and got emotion, and danced around the altar a few times, and says, "I got it." It's something that's been remolded, and regenerated, and become a new creature. Then it can stand the pressure of the persecution and the things that follows the spiritual life. You've got to be made and built to stand the pressure. And only one thing can do it. That's when you come into God's molding house, and be torn down and rebuilt, a new creature in Christ Jesus.

L-67   I was out to the hospital here, not long ago, and I--I was going to pray for a lady. And there was another lady laying next to her. And I seen her all nervous, and I was beginning to talk about prayer. And I said, "Well, we'll bow our heads for prayer," I said.

L-68 She said, "Wait a minute! Wait a minute! Wait a minute! Pull that curtain."
I said, "Yes, ma'am." I said, "I was only going to pray."
And she said, "Pull that curtain."
I said, "Yes, ma'am. Aren't you a believer?"
And she said, "We are Methodists."

L-69 I said, "Well, that certainly expresses what I asked." See? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. See? Yeah. I never asked her what lodge she belonged to. I asked her if she was a believer. See?


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