<TITLE>03. Par 21-31</TITLE>L-21   It's even got into a place to where they are trying to hybreed the churches, today; from the real baptism of the Holy Ghost, to a handshake; some kind of a sprinkling, to a water baptism. Oh, my! The whole thing is hybrid. We want to get back.

L-22 A hybrid plant, you have to baby it and spray it, and keep the bugs and beetles off of it. But not a genuine healthy plant; he is sturdy, strong, don't no bugs come on him. He has got enough in him to throw the bug off.

L-23 And so is a genuine Christian! You don't have to baby him and pat him, and tell him this, that, or the other. He has got something in him, the baptism of the Holy Ghost, that throws all the rest of it off. Don't have to beg him around, because he is a genuine plant of God. He has got something in him that wars. A Christian fights for every inch of ground he stands on. He must do that, if he ever expects to exist. And, by doing it, there is Something in him that takes care of him.

L-24   Eve tried to hybrid the Word, in the beginning. God told her, "The day you eat thereof, that day you die." She tried to breed It in with knowledge that Satan give her. And when she did, she lost the whole human race, right there, to the devil, when she tried to mix God's unadulterated Word with knowledge. It doesn't come from the knowledge of the world.

L-25 It comes by the power of the Holy Spirit! "Not by power, by might, but by My Spirit," saith the Lord. That's how God does it. God's Word is the seed of Eternal Life.

L-26 If you try to hybred It, what will you do? You'll kill yourself with It. It will not work. It will not mix no more than oil or water ever mixed. It will not do it.

L-27   They have never, in all the way, tried to find anything that's better than God's way of doing it. You know, they've never found a way, better, for a chicken to get born in this world, than peck hisself out of his shell. Did you know that? They never have found a better way. The little fellow is born with a little snoot on the end of his--on the end of his bill. And that little bill he got, to go to work and go to scratching, scratching back and forth, till he gets his head started, gets his head out, picks his way free. It's God's provided way. You pull him out of the shell, it'll kill him. He won't live if you pull him out of the shell. He has to come God's way.

L-28 That's what's the matter with Christians today. We so soft-soaped them, and we shook their hands and brought them in by secret, and joined them into the church. What they need is an old-fashion prayer altar where they pray through, until using themselves, come in God's provided way, till they free themselves from the world. The trouble of it, today, they put their name on the book and join church, and that's all there is to it. But God's way, provided way, is to stay there and work your way through, until God gives you the new Birth. That's exactly right. Pick him out, it'll kill him.

L-29   That's what's the matter, today, with the people. A new Birth, they all dodge it. They don't like it. Oh, they have substituted something for the new Birth, "come up and believe, and that's all you have to do." The Devil believes, himself, and you know he is not born again. There is a new Birth. There is something goes with it, it's kind of unfitting, untasting to the world.

L-30 Any birth is a mess. I don't care where it's at. If it's in the pig pen, or--or a hospital. A birth is a mess.

L-31 So is the new Birth! It'll make you do things you didn't think you would do. It'll make you get down at the altar and cry, scream, wash the paint off your face, raise your hands, praise God, speak in tongues, and all kinds of things. The new Birth will do that because it's God's provided way to be borned again.


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