<TITLE>13. Par 118-126</TITLE>L-118   I passed through, coming today. I was watching, coming down here, by one of these little Casa Grande, or some of these little places here. I noticed there was a--a cotton farm, and different alfalfa. They had to have windmills there, to pump water, to keep that going. Why? It don't belong there. Certainly not. But, look at the old cactus, it could not rain for five years and it'd live. And you fail to put water on that for a few days, and it'll die. You see, it's not the original.

L-119   That's the way we are. We got to be babied, and made big shots in the church, and patted, and called this, that, or the other.

L-120 Well, them early Christians was rugged. They didn't care who patted them on the back. They reflected Jesus Christ, so much, that they said they considered they... They were ignorant and unlearned. They didn't go to high school, and they didn't have a college degree. "But they took heed they had been with Jesus." That's what they need, the Christians today, to take heed that you been with Jesus. There is something about you, that's different. I know that isn't... That's an unpopular thing to say, but we're not looking for popularity. Christians are looking not for something easy.

L-121   An old sister in my church years ago, used to stand and sing the song.
Must I be carried home to Heaven on a flowerly bed of ease,
While others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?
No. I must fight if I must reign.

L-122 You think what you would do if you was here and everything was against Jesus Christ, if you'd have lived in His days. You're living there, my brother, sister. That's right. He is still the Word. Look how they're tramping on It today. Look how they're trying to organize It, and unite It, and everything like that, with the world. Stand out. Take your--take your stand for Jesus Christ and His Word. Let nothing hinder that. Stay right with It.

L-123   Like the old Chinese laundry man, used to come here to Arizona and California, years ago. He couldn't write one word of English. He hardly knew it. You take your laundry to him. You know what he'd do? He had little pieces of paper, nothing wrote on it at all. He'd just tear that piece of paper and give you one piece. When you come back, that piece of paper had to match his piece of paper, or you didn't get your laundry. That's a whole lot better. You could copy a name, but you ain't going to fool him there, 'cause that piece of paper has to match exactly with his piece of paper.

L-124   That's the way God made His covenant too. Our experience is not to match some creed, some dogma, some church denomination, but it's to match God's Word, Jesus Christ. Right. When we come to Christ, then Christ claims us. He tore Him in two, at Calvary. Part of it He lifted up, and to set at His right hand, which was the body. The Spirit, He came, sent back here to make a Bride for Him. And that same experience that was in Christ has to be in us.

L-125 He was--He was absolutely so perfect till He pleased the Sculptor, and inspired Him so much until He smote Him at Calvary. Oh, my! Now we see Him as the Scripture said, God's masterpiece. "We see Him smitten, stricken, and afflicted of God." There is the real masterpiece. As 'Angelo struck his, that's what made...

L-126   If He had just have lived a good life, He had been like some of the people that preach the social gospel today, "He was a prophet." He was a prophet, but He was more than a prophet. He was God. He was Emmanuel.


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