<TITLE>11. Par 103-111</TITLE>L-103 If here stands a peach tree, and I take all the peach life out of it, and put apple life in it, what kind of a fruit will it bear? Apples. That's the kind of life that's in it.

L-104 Well, then, if the Life that was in Christ is in us, It'll bear the fruits that He bore. It's got to.

L-105   And what a--what a mix-up the people has got in, today, that, think that, that Christianity is one of the softest things. "All they do is put their name on a book, and have somebody to sprinkle them, or something another, and give the minister the right hand of fellowship. And that's all there is to it. Go on out." That's not Christianity.

L-106 Christianity is self-denial. "Take up your cross daily. Follow Him." Die out, to the things of the world. When all condemnation is gone, "There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus." How do you get into Him? By joining? No. Shaking hands? No. By a union? By education? "By one Spirit we are all baptized into one Body." By Holy Spirit baptism we're in Christ. "And there's no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, that walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." Amen. Oh, that, that would make anybody shout. Amen. To be in there, anyhow, that's the good part. All right.

L-107 Now we find out here, that, in the next fellow to raise up to testify, must have been Peter. I can hear him say, "Can I give my testimony next?"

L-108   You know, when you got something to testify about, you just almost got to get permission, because there's really a going. And this testimony meeting was going. The old boat just rocking, and them brothers just patting their feet and having a great time out there. Like to have been out there! Wouldn't you have liked to have been out there and listened to that testimony? Little John had to set down. He had said all he could at that time.

L-109 Simon raised up. He said, "You know, when Andrew begin to go down there to that man, that the country thought was some kind of a wild man, that John, the church thought it was a man that went off on the deep end. After all, his daddy was a priest. And he... You know, it's custom among our people, for the son to follow whatever the father did. But, you know, his work was so great. Instead of going down there in all that big school, and getting indocumented with that; his--his mission was too great. God took him out into the wilderness, and at the age of nine years old.

L-110   "And he showed hisself again at thirty years old, because his mission was to introduce the Messiah. And the Messiah was going to have a sign, and he had to know what that sign was. If he got down there and had some of this denominational injection into him, why, somebody, some great bishop would have said, or great high priest would have said, 'Now, looky here, John, we know you're to--you're to introduce the Messiah, as it was told by the--by the Angel. And you're to introduce. Don't you think that Brother So here just meets the--the ticket exactly?' He might have give in to it. But, you see, he separated himself from everything, so he could just listen and see what God said about it."

L-111 And I think that's a good lesson for us tonight. If we'll separate ourselves from all this man-made dogmas and creeds, and things, and look in the Bible and see what God said about it. He ought to know what is right. It's His Word, His Book. That's the reason I like the full Gospel, not half of it; all of It, the full Gospel.


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