<TITLE>19. Par 185-197</TITLE>L-185 I said, "Well, now, that's a strange thing." I said, "Now, this year, after all that fruit goes off, next year it'll bring forth an orange?"

L-186 He said, "Oh, no. Huh-uh. No." Said, "It'll bring forth the kind that the limb is."

L-187 And I said, "Then that tree turned from, you mean, from the--the orange tree to what..."

L-188 He said, "No, no, no. If it ever puts forth another limb, it brings forth an orange."
I said, "I see." Amen.

L-189   Brother, we've got such things as church denominations injected into This, and living off of It, calling themselves Christians. But if the real Life of that tree ever puts forth another branch of its own, it'll be another Book of Acts behind it, for He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. What the world and their treasures, and they don't know nothing about. The people reading this Bible, if you'll read It from the denominational standpoint, you'll not get much from It. But if you'll just look to what It says, then obey what the prescription says. Read It, obey It, it'll make a different person.

L-190   I just come from India, here not long ago. I heard of a woman over here, she was poverty-stricken, her son had went to India to be a doctor. And he got over there and he got away from his medical practice, and got into another, I believe he was an electrical engineer, or something. And this woman got poverty-stricken. She just didn't have nothing, and so charity was trying to come and take care of her. And so they invested the case, and when they investigated, they found out that the woman had one support, and that was a son that was a very wealthy man in India. And said, "Well, why don't your son support you?"

L-191 Said, "Oh, I just couldn't ask him." Said, "I'm his mother," said, "I'd just rather take charity than to ask my son."
Said, "Don't you never hear from him?"

L-192 Said, "Oh, I hear from him at least once or twice a month." Said, "He writes some of the most sweetest letters that you ever read."

L-193 Said, "Well, look like if he loved his mother enough, and he had plenty of money, he would be trying to take care of her, instead of her having to go to charity."

L-194 Said, "Well, perhaps if he knew I was this a way," said, "he would, he would take care of me. But," said, "you know, he doesn't know, and I--I just feel embarrassed to tell my son, like that."
And said, "And he still writes you sweet letters?"

L-195 Said, "Oh, some of the sweetest letters!" And said, "He sends me the prettiest pictures you ever seen."
Said, "The prettiest pictures? So let's see some of them."

L-196 She went through her Bible, and she pulled them out. You know what they was? Bank drafts. India puts pictures on their bank drafts, you see, pretty pictures. She had thousands of dollars, converted from Indian money into American money. What was it? In the ledge of her Bible, she had treasures that she thought was "just pictures," but, come to find out, it was real value to her.

L-197   And, brother, when you try to read of a painted fire of Pentecost, and somebody tries to tell you that the Holy Spirit isn't the same today as it was then, somebody tries to tell you the days of miracles is passed, that Jesus Christ isn't the same yesterday, today, and forever, that they try to tell you, don't you believe it. Them is not pictures. God Almighty sent that message to you, that's right, "It's for you, and to your children, to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." God is still God. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.


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