<TITLE>19. Par 186-199</TITLE>L-186 But, God can humble Himself because He's so great. He's got beyond what we call great. He's on the other side. And He's so great that He can make Hisself humble. "I thank Thee, Father, of heavens and earth that Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent." As I said, we split an atom and can't explain the life in a blade of grass. See? Walk over it, the very thing that declares God. We walk over the top of it.

L-187 That's the same thing we do today. Yes, sir. Walk over the top of This, which is God in letter form, that's right, and accept some man's creed or dogma instead of It. Selling your birthrights for a mess of pottage, for a popularity, for a church that'll let you wear bobbed hair and shorts, and send you to cocktail parties and things like that, and then call yourself a Christian. Shame on you. Right.

L-188   Not scolding you; but--but through godly respects and love. That's right. Get away from such a thing as that. Come back to God and His Bible. Come back to the Gospel Truth. Yeah. Let some organization wrap you away from the things of God? Don't you never do that. You come back to God's simple way. Just fall on your knees and say, "Lord God, I don't care what, how you give It to me, but I'm here for It." Watch what happens. Be sincere about it.

L-189 More anxious to give It to you than you are to receive It. You don't have to tarry, and tarry, and tarry. There's no such a thing. "While Peter yet spake these Words, the Holy Ghost fell on them that heard It." Right. The trouble of it is, we don't want It enough. We're not. We don't want to humble ourself. That's right.

L-190   I was preaching here, not long ago, and there was a lady got real happy, and she got to shouting. There was a boy that plays baseball in the city. He said, "Billy, I was standing on the outside. I couldn't get in." He said, "I was enjoying your message till that--that woman started crying and going on like that." He said, "All them people then started screaming and carrying on." He said, "That just run cold chills over my back."
"Oh," I said, "you didn't believe that?"
He said, "No."

L-191 I said, "If they didn't do it, it would run cold chills over my back." See? I said, "I wouldn't know where I was talking, what I was talking about." See?

L-192 And so he said... He was a baseball fiend. And I change... He said, "Well, who in the world ever heard of such a thing as that?" Belonged to the same organizational church that I come out of. And he said, "Well, now, your Message was all right, what you was talking about. But who could hear you?"

L-193 I said, "Wasn't about a 'hear' then. The Holy Ghost was there. He done took over." See? I said, "Time for me to shut up when He come, see, and He got amongst the people."

L-194 He said, "Ha-ha-ha, Billy," said, "you're just a fanatic. That's all."

L-195 I said, "Well, maybe I am." I said, "If I am, I'm one of the happiest fanatics you ever seen." See? And I said, "I..."
He said, "Well, I want to tell you." I got talking to him.

L-196   I said, "Say!" And the baseball park is not far from the house. I said, "What in the world was that taking place over there, the other night?"

L-197 He said, "You ought to have seen it!" Said, "You know Charles Nolan? I say! Three men on base!" And he just got all excited.

L-198 I said, "Well, you bunch of unholy-rollers, I never heard such a noise in my life." I said, "If I been there, I wouldn't said very much about it. I'd just stood and looked."
He said, "You, now, you don't care for baseball very much."

L-199 I said, "Certainly not." I said, "I don't care for baseball, therefore I'm not interested in it." I said, "If I'd been interested in it, I'd have been acting the same way you do. And if you was interested in my God, and the Coming of the Lord Jesus, and the power of God, you would act the same way when the Holy Ghost strikes into a building."


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