<TITLE>06. Par 54-64</TITLE>L-54   And here some time ago, the wife and I, about two years ago, was... Brother Mercier and them would get a little kick out of this, as to say. We was over to the shopping center. And in our city, it's... Oh, there's many religious people, so-called. But we seen a--a woman that had on a skirt, and it was the strangest thing, 'cause none of the rest of them seemed to have on one. And--and so we know many of them that sing in choirs and everything. And the... and so we... My wife said to me, she said, "Well, why?"

L-55 And I said, "Well, you see, they're not--they're not of our citizenship."
She said, "What?"
I said, "No, they're not of our..."
Said, "They're Americans, aren't they?"

L-56 I said, "Sure. They're Americans. That may be true enough."

L-57 I find in traveling, in missions, in missionary and around the world, I go in to--to Germany, there is a national spirit, called, it's a German spirit. It's the spirit of the nation. I go up in Switzerland, I find out, just brothers, almost speaking the same language, but there's another spirit. See? And it's a different spirit in Switzerland. Then I come over to Finland, it's altogether a different spirit. Then I come to America, there's a spirit of America. That's right.

L-58 "Well, you say, aren't we..." She said, "Aren't we American citizens? Why is it that our people, so-and-so?"

L-59 And I said, "Well, you see, honey, you see, each nation lives off, on the spirit of the nation. That's the national spirit."

L-60 She said, "Well, then, wouldn't we be living on the American spirit?"

L-61 I said, "Oh, no." I said, "We are born again. We live on a Heavenly Spirit, where holiness, righteousness."

L-62 And we, we're not Americans, as far as that goes, because America is just a earthly nation. But when a man of Germany, of Switzerland, or wherever he may be, when he becomes born of Heaven, he takes on a Heavenly Spirit. And his nature and his makeup look for things above, where Christ sets at the right hand of God. Amen. Oh, how we ought to remember that, that He died that we might be able to be fortified from this thing, inoculated. That's right.

L-63   A good healthy plant don't... You don't need to spray a good healthy plant. The bugs won't get on it, anyhow. That's right. No bugs will bother a healthy plant. It's that hothouse type that has to be sprayed all the time, some kind of a hybrid affair. And that's the way it is today. We have to spray and baby the church too much. It ought to be a rugged individual of Christ, washed in the Blood of Jesus Christ, and born of the Spirit of God. And all the worldly bugs scatter. They don't even fool around, anyhow. That's awful rude, but I hope it took hold. It's kind of a rude expression, but you know what I'm talking about.

L-64   Oh, how Daniel, and purposing that in his heart, he can well remember the payoff. And someday we'll remember the payoff, too. So when he come to remember that, in the hour of distress, God sent an Angel in the lions' den, and closed the mouth of the lions, that they could not bother him. What a memory to think about! He, throwed into a lions' den, because he had purposed in his heart to serve God, and he could remember that. How did it go? Something like this, "God has sent His Angel. He seen the innocence of my heart." Oh, there you are, the innocence of your heart. God could see that in Daniel, and his purpose to do what was right, and He sent His Angel and had kept the lions from bothering him at all. What a memory! We could go on and on, with that.


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