<TITLE>19. Par 218-228</TITLE>L-218 I'm going to take that I'm going against Jesus, this morning, and I'm going to say you're a bunch of Jewish people, and Jesus just rose up here in Bakersfield. "Let me call you man together and talk to you about the fruits of the Spirit." They believe that, too.

L-219 What is the fruit of the Spirit? Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness. That right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Fruit of the Spirit, many people rely upon that.

L-220 Sometime that's the devil. He can impersonate that, to the letter; he cer-... he can impersonate speaking in tongues, to the letter; interpretation of it, to the letter. Any of those gifts, he can impersonate it.

L-221   Notice, "I'm going," there is the priest, "I'm going to talk to you all." Now I'm taking sides against Jesus, just a moment. I've asked God to forgive me, just so that I could show you what I mean, to bring out a point. See? I'll say...

L-222 "Gentlemen, I'm here in behalf of your church, this morning. I'm speaking to you all. Now, there is a young fellow in the city here, by the Name of Jesus, of Nazareth. He's got a strange doctrine. We know our priests. Now we'll have to judge this by the fruit of the Spirit. This, your priest, his great-great-great-great-grandfather was a priest. He omitted all of his young life, for the things that you all enjoyed when you were young man. He omitted that, to be a priest to God. What did he do by this? He studied, he done everything he could be, to be a right kind of a man.

L-223   "Who was it stood by you when papa and mama was arguing, and they was going to separate? Who stood by papa and mama, put arms around one, and one around the other, and brought them back together? Your faithful old priest out there. Your faithful old priest studied Jehovah's laws until he knows them in and out, in and out, in and out. He went through every seminary. He's got a Doctor's Degree. A Bachelor of Art, he got. He's got a D.D., L.L., Ph.D. He knows exactly what he is talking about. He studied for that, while you man were running around. He studied it, because he is your leader."

L-224 That all makes sense, brothers, if you're talking in the psychological way of it. It all makes sense.

L-225   "What school did this Jesus of Nazareth come from? He never had a day in school, as we know of. Where did He come from? No one knows; here He comes around. Look at your old, kind old priest. When your daddy run out of money that time, didn't have no money, who did he go to? The man had the fruit of the Spirit, your kind old priest that loaned him the money to tithe him over till his crops come in.

L-226 "Who stood by you when your mother was in labor?" Excuse me, sisters. "And they thought she was going to die. Who held his hands upon her, and prayed, while you was being born in this world? Your kind old priest. Who lifted you up to Jehovah, and circumcised you, and held you and made you... and offered you to Jehovah? That kind old priest.

L-227   "And look what this Jesus of Nazareth done, the other day. What'd He ever do for the fruit of the Spirit?

L-228 "Now, many of you are businessmen, you have--you have businesses here. You, you are merchants, and--and so forth. Jehovah requires a lamb for your sins. You don't raise lambs. So what have these kind old priests did, so that your soul would not be lost? They had some sellers to go up there in the courts, make little cages, and put lambs in there; that you could take your income, that you would have done; made not of lambs, but you made it in something else, to keep our economy going. And they play... made a place so you, when you got sin-burdened, and you want to get released from your sins. This kind old priest had a place you could go buy a lamb. God didn't want your money; He said, 'a lamb,' and you went and bought a lamb!


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