<TITLE>07. Par 65-75</TITLE>L-65   Now, now, I believe it's time for another nut to raise. And don't you think so? I--I think it's just about... Pentecost has done the same thing that--that the rest of the world went. But it's time for another nut. See? So if we have to throw away, on this side of the bank, you see what I mean? And the people think that we're so odd and peculiar, the way we separate ourselves, the way you have here. And we're--we're not divided. We're one. See? See? The way that we are, we separated ourselves from the world.

L-66 Brother Leo, led to come up here, and there you had little children that has to be trained up. See? You got women, young ladies here, that--that don't like to walk in the way of the world. You got men here, that's aged and retiring. They want a place to where they can settle down and feel at home. You dwell among your own kind of people. Well, and, see, I think that God can raise up something to take care of that. Don't you think so? [Congregation says, "Amen.--Ed.] I--I believe that with all my heart, that He does that.

L-67   Now, we find out, it's time now. Notice, the nut always was what pulled them together.

L-68 Like all Americans today, we find so much worldly-ism and things, in our churches and our denominations, and things. Let something raise up on the Word. See, they got off to the creed and not the Word. And let something raise up with the Word, you know.

L-69 You say, "Well, the people think you separated yourself." I talked to your pastor here, and our Brother Leo. And someone said, "Well, why don't you come, and come into this, and come in that?"

L-70 He said, "No, no." See, he, he is sold out to one thing, the Word, see, to the Word. See?

L-71   Well, now look. If there is a nut sent, there has got to be a bolt for it to fit on. That right? Now, God sends nuts. Don't you believe that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] See? I'll explain this in a little bit. But to make it a point. There's got to be a bolt, and that bolt's got to be threaded, to fit the nut.

L-72 I'm so glad to be threaded with the Word. I'm so glad that there's a bolt that's threaded the same way. And what's it to do? It's to draw out the Bride from the world, set It aside for something different. Yes, friends. We may be a nut to the things of the world, the people of the world, but we are only drawing out, that which is threaded for this.

L-73   Noah was threaded in his day, and the rest of the prophets, and down through the age. And the righteous men was threaded, because He sent it. What would be use of having a bolt or nut, if you didn't have a bolt for it to go on? And what is a bolt and a nut, together? You see, is draw something together. See? And it's the drawing powers of Christ, that draws us out from the things of the world. See? And then we fellowship with Paul's great ministry, saying, "I have become a fool." So when people think that you are odd, see, see where you stand? See? You've become a fool to them, that you might be drawed by the power of God. To which, Something within you, Something in your heart thread you.

L-74   I might say this morning, "Who is Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostal Assemblies, this, that, and the other?" There'd be all kinds of hands go up here, and forty, fifty people. See? There would be that many, everybody different.

L-75 But what makes you set here? Why are you here. See? Is because you were threaded to something. See? And when it begin to come, it makes sense to you. If you try to put a certain thread upon a bolt, a certain kind that wouldn't fit, it doesn't make sense to you. See, it--it won't go on. See? But when something comes along that fits just exactly, it pulls you from Chicago, from New Orleans, and wherever you come from, to here. See? And now, see, you become an oddball, sure enough, to the world. But don't let that bother you. See? Don't let that bother you.


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