<TITLE>17. Par 163-170</TITLE>L-163   Our educational system, in our churches, has led us far away from the Presence of God. It's too bad that we put our boys (I'm talking of Pentecostals now) out into the seminaries and things, hatch them out like incubator chickens. That's right. I always felt sorry for an incubator chicken, it was--wasn't hatched right. He chirps, and he ain't got no mammy to go to, just turned out by a big machine of a regime. That's the way they seem to be turning out preachers today, with some kind of a doctor's degree, and send him into a church. And sometimes he knows no more about God than an Hottentot would know about an Egyptian night.

L-164   What we need today is a good old-fashion, backwoods, sky-blue, sin-killing religion, and the baptism of the Holy Ghost back into the church again; a cleaning out, gun-barrel straight, sky-blue religion. We need a cleaning out, and a starting all over again. That's the Truth.

L-165 Church, I'm not beside myself. I may be mad, as I said last night, but I--I feel good this way. I never did feel this way the other way, so I--I'd just like to stay this way. Yes, sir. I did lose my mind; I had to, to find the mind of Christ. Every other believer has to, that's right, has to find the mind of Christ, by losing our own mind.

L-166   The educational system has taken us away. I live in a college town, where the University of Arizona is there. And I was saying, thinking this, what can science do for you? They can take something, and say, "this was so many hundred years ago," now they found out it wasn't so many hundred years ago. They haven't got one thing yet, scientifically, proving that the world has ever had any life on it, any more than six thousand years. They pick up bones, and they used to take different measurements and say how it was. Now, they wouldn't confess it. A big professor the other night, stood up there in Arizona, and said, "They won't profess it, no, but they found out that the age of the bone has been because of the chloride and stuff in the water, and also the salt turned it like that, and aged it. It absolutely wasn't time that done it." Amen.

L-167   God's Word still ever remains the same, yesterday, today, and forever. They can never be able to disprove It. That's the thing that will hold the world together; not an educational system. Anything that you adopt instead of That, is an antichrist move; that's exactly right, it's against the principles of Christ. Back to the Word, and Christ is the Word! Yes, sir. He's the Word made flesh and dwelt among us.

L-168 Education can never give us Life. Education can never. Science can't give us Life. The world can't give us Life. The church can't give us Life. Theology can't give us Life. There is only one thing can give you Life, that's Christ. He is Life, the abundant Life!

L-169   Some time ago, in a city in Canada, I was going up on an elevator. And they was having a bunch of Americans up there, and it was--it was some kind of a meeting. I won't call the name of it, 'cause there might be someone in that certain lodge, in here, and I wouldn't want to hurt your feelings. But they was going up on the--the--the elevator, in a big hotel. And I was having a meeting there. And you couldn't get on the elevator, hardly, for the whisky bottles and things. And I said to the--to the elevator boy, I said, "What's all this?"

L-170 He said, "The Americans has visited us tonight." Oh, goodness, many of them! And then I went down.


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