<TITLE>16. Par 199-210</TITLE>L-199 Well, I went down and took my text, before these ministers, after they had all got through eating. I took my text: I Was Not Disobedient To The Heavenly Vision. No more than I had read the Scripture, about two looked, out the door they went. So as I started to say, "As Paul in his day, with a odd ministry, and now he stands before Agrippa and said that he wasn't disobedient to it," about two or three more got up. And by time I got to where I could say something about the text, there was just about three or four sitting there. They had all got up and gone.

L-200   The reason of it, is, is this. Some come to a meeting, when they hear of an evangelist, the way he dresses has something to do with the people. If he don't wear the right kind of clothes, some of them...

L-201 I heard a--a psychologist say, the other day; Doctor Narramore, a fine man, Christian man, his program is on KAIR there, all the time. He said, "The way to tell that a man was losing his mind, is when he didn't dress according to his disposition." You know, to how he has to appear before the public, that was a sign that he was losing his mind.

L-202 Well, then, I've been crazy all my life then, see, 'cause I wear overalls and everything, see. So, fitting to my position, I must dress like a clergyman, in other words, to--to be a clergyman.

L-203 I don't think Jesus dressed like a clergyman. He dressed like a ordinary man. He went in among man, and it wasn't nothing dressing.

L-204   But that's just, see, how that the ideas of man. It doesn't... How about if this man, or, I wonder what the doctor would think of this, when a prophet in the Bible was commanded to strip off his clothes and walk naked before the people? He really would a-been crazy, wouldn't he now? But God told him to do it.

L-205 Another one had to lay on his side for three hundred and forty... Months, I believe it was, lying on his side, one side; and then turned over the other side. And eat a pot of lentil that he had made there; had to go and seethe this stuff and make it up, together, and eat it all that time; reach over and get a handful and eat, lying on his side, for a sign. See?

L-206   Oh, how far people can get from, really, Word of God. They just get so educated till they educate themself away from God. When a man talks about he's got a education, I know that's just how far he is from God; see, a doctor's degree. Not saying this against Doctor Vayle, 'cause he isn't that type. But, usually, when a man gets a doctor's degree, that just means, to me, he's that much farther from God, see, unless he can hold hisself to the Word and to God.

L-207   Now, we find out that some comes to hear the way you speak, when they come to look. You talk about Divine healing and the Lord; if a man isn't typical, an educated genius, the people just can't stand to hear him use words as "his'n, hain't," and--and words like... They just... They don't. They think that that's way away from God.

L-208 And when Jesus spoke such simple language, until, today, it's got the professors confused, for they try to interpret it according to the scholarships and the language of that day, and it was street language. Therefore...

L-209 Why, there is so much difference even here in our United States! I called from Florida, to New York, and had to get a woman over here, too, at Saint Louis, to translate between this southern girl and the northern girl. That's how much difference there was. See? Certainly.

L-210   Now the thing of it is, that people look for those things, speeches, instead of the Word. The Word being manifested is the evidence that It's right. See, the Word being manifested! They will never look at That. You've got to have an intellectual conception, to know, go at the seminary and learn how to bow, how to stand in one place, and all. Oh, that would choke a minister, to death, that was really filled with the Holy Spirit. See? Now, that's intellectual.


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