<TITLE>10. Par 85-94</TITLE>L-85 "Well, we say anything about it, they'll change their membership."

L-86 Remember, you don't pet Christians. Christians are rugged. They are men and women of God, who stand for God, regardless of what anybody else has got to say. You don't have to beg them and persuade them, and perfume them and baby them around. That's hotbed, hybrid plants, it's no good at all, they'll never produce nothing.

L-87   Reminds me, like a... It soon be nesting time. I noticed little birds today, over there, little sparrows packing the straw into their nests. It won't be long till they'll be nesting, making their little eggs to hatch. You know, a little bird can have a nest of eggs, and she can sit on that nest of eggs, and she turns them every few minutes; takes her little feet and turns them over, and sits there. Now, if she lets them eggs get cold, after they once get warmed up, they won't hatch. And she just flies off and get a mouthful of food, and right back on them again.

L-88 And you know, that old mother bird, she could sit there on those eggs, and turn them every two minutes, and not... even sacrifice and fast until she is so poor she can't get off the nest. But unless, then, that mother bird has been in contact with the male bird, them eggs won't hatch. No matter what, how much you baby them, they won't hatch. They'll lay right in the nest and rot.

L-89   And if there ever was a time that Pentecost ought to get with the Mate, Jesus Christ; 'cause we're getting nothing but a nest full of rotten eggs, denying the Faith, going into the Ecumenical Council, and calling it great things, to sit by the pope, and saying "it's spiritual." What's the world's the matter, you Pentecostal people? Don't you know the Bible spoke them things would happen? And we holler 'cause the Methodists and Baptists are coming in, and then all these other things like that. Don't you realize that when the sleeping virgin come to buy Oil, that was the very hour that the Bridegroom came? And they did not get the Oil! You know, the Rapture will come so secret, and going away, some of these times, you won't even know it happens. It'll be gone, and you'll wonder what happened.

L-90   Like John came on the earth. And they said to Him, said, "Well, the Bible said, Elias must first come." He said, "He's already come, and you didn't know it."

L-91 So will it be, someday, they'll say, "I thought this was to happen before the Tribulation period. I thought the Rapture was to take place." The words could come back, "It's already happened and you didn't know it." Uh-huh. It may be later than you think. Oh, wake up, church! I better quit that; I never come here for doctrine, I just thought I'd punch that in just so you could have that on the side.

L-92   Remember, brother, Satan has seen these big programs, one church trying to outdo the other, one denomination trying to outdo another, weeding out all the illiteracy and have to give them a test of psychology, have a psychologist to test a man before he goes into the mission fields. Pentecost! No, that--that--that ain't the Presbyterians, that's Pentecost. A psychic test is required of a certain group of Pentecostals, big group, before the missionaries can take the field.

L-93 What if they had a test like that? They got a test. It was a pentecostal test in the beginning, when they waited in the upper room until there came Fire from on High, and the Power of God. That was the test.

L-94 Not some worldly, half-drunk psychologist standing there trying to make the mind, if you're a little bit excited, or something, say, "You're all altogether undone." When, it absolutely proves that a man that's extremely spiritual is nervous, he has to be in that condition to get into It. So there you are, see, and just messing up what God has tried to do for years, and come right back around with their programs and their great...


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