<TITLE>03. Par 23-35</TITLE>L-23 So--so you have to be somebody's fool, so I'd rather be a fool for Christ. See? I'd be a... God said His people were "a peculiar people, odd; a chosen, elected; a royal priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices to God, that is, the fruits of our lips, giving praise to His Name."

L-24   Some time ago... This little sense of humor, I hope it doesn't break the fine spirit that's in here. Just come on my mind. It was a Brother Troy of the Full Gospel Business Men, was telling about this. I was thinking of this, for this young singer here, that's just come to the Lord. When he--he was working in a...

L-25 He's a meat cutter, and he was working in a butcher shop. And--and this was a German there, and he just kept talking to him about the Lord. And this German couldn't talk English very well. So he--he said, "Well, come on to the meeting." Said, "You need the baptism of the Holy Ghost."

L-26 So the old Dutchman want him to know that he was a Lutheran, you see, he was--he was all right. He was a...?...
"Well, you come on up and visit us once."

L-27 And so they come across a--a bunch of, perhaps, oddballs, too, as we call it. You see? And that night this German man received the baptism of the Holy Ghost. And the next day he was cutting meat, and speaking in tongues and singing. He was having him a regular jubilee.

L-28 And so, after while, the boss of the factory come by, and he said, "Henry," said, "what's the matter with you?"
He said, "O glory to God." He said, "I--I got saved."

L-29 And he said, "Why," he said, "where you been?" Said, "You must have been down there with that bunch of nuts," he said.

L-30   He said, "Yes, glory to God!" He said, "I--I was down there with the bunch of nuts." He said, "You know, if you didn't have the--the--the nuts..." Said, "You take like the automobile, it comes down the road. And you take all the nuts out of it, you, what you got but a bunch of yunk!" That's just about right, and you take the--the--the nuts out of anything. Now, it takes that to hold the thing together.

L-31 The world gets in such a place, in a turmoil, and the church gets so sold up in worldly-ism and--and denominationalism, and so forth, till it takes sometimes a nut to hold the thing together. That's right. If they don't have it, we don't have it, we don't have the church.

L-32 Now, we can think of that subject just for a few moments. Paul said, "I have become a fool, or a--a--a nut, just for..." Now, you have to be somebody's nut. You can either be a nut for the world, or a nut for Christ.

L-33 One day in California, was walking down the street, and there was a man. He had a sign on the front of him, like this, said, "I am a fool for Christ." And on his back he had a sign that said, "Now, who's fool are you?" See? So, we asked him, on it. Said, "You have to be somebody's fool."

L-34   So Paul, here, had chosen to be a fool for Christ. And you can imagine how the world thought of him at that time; and not only the world, but the church. That man had been trained to be a priest. He was trained under Gamaliel, a great, one of the greatest scholars and greatest teachers of that day. And when he had, maybe, say, his Bachelor of Art and his--his Doctor's degree, and--and was ready for to--to be called into the priesthood, and maybe someday with the possibility, with the enthusiasm this young man had. And then to change that, all at once, all because something happened. He met Christ on the road to Damascus.

L-35 And then, to the world he was a fool, and to the church he was a fool. To the--the denominational church he was actually a fool. That's what he said here, he had become a fool. He's a fool to those people, but he was the instrument that God used, to hold the Church together, to hold the Body, as It was in that day, together. He'd become a fool for that--for that sake.


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