<TITLE>20. Par 200-214</TITLE>L-200 But remember, we got a knock one day, and opened Him in, pride and all left. Amen. I don't care what they call me!
Oh, I guess I'm just a little old-fashion,
But my Saviour was old-fashion, too.

L-201 Is that right? You've heard the song. Be old-fashion! Don't try to pattern after somebody else. He is your Example. Try to be like Him, and the Spirit in you will help you to do that. Make your life like His.

L-202   Yeah, there is a door there. I want to call another door. I get too wound up. There is another door there, just next to that door, going around the right-hand side, and that door is the door to your private life. Oh! Oh, you don't want Him messing with that. "Now, if I want to go out to a little cocktail party, what is it to You? What church is going to tell me what I'm going to do?" Uh-huh, there you are, see. "A tenth of my wages? Who is going to tell me what to do? That's my own private life! I make this money. I have my own life. I'll wear shorts if I want to. That's my own American privilege." That is true. Sure. Right.

L-203 But if you're a lamb, and not a goat, see, lambs is what He is after. They'll be separated someday.

L-204   A sheep has wool. That's the only thing it has. And it can't manufacture that wool. We're not asked to manufacture the fruit of the Spirit, but to bear the fruit of the Spirit. And as long as it's a sheep, it'll bear. It don't have to manufacture. The glands and everything in it is sheep, it'll make wool because the inside of him has the glands and the adrenalin and stuff it takes to make wool.

L-205 And when you are a Christian, you'll cope with the Word. I don't care what anybody else says. You don't have to work up nothing, and bring down nothing, pull, pump up. You're a Christian. You just automatically bear the fruit of the Spirit. See? See, and that's the way it is. See?

L-206   But, people today, they don't want you fooling with their private life.

L-207 Only thing you do, just open up every door around, now say, "Come on in, Jesus." Watch what happens. When you see in the Book, you're supposed to do this, you'll do it. Why? You're a sheep, to begin with, then.

L-208 But if you just want to set, keep Him at the door, just say, "I've joined church. I'm as good as you. See, I accepted Christ." Maybe that's just what you done. But did you make Him Lord? See?

L-209   Now, the Lord cannot sit down a Book of rules and say a Word, and then come around and deny It. And if you say you got the Holy Ghost, and the Bible says a certain thing to do, and you say, "Oh, I don't believe That." You just remember, that spirit in you is not the Holy Spirit, 'cause He can't deny Himself. That's right. He can't deny Himself. He wrote the Word, and He watches over It, to perform It. See? So it's not the Holy...

L-210 It's a spirit, all right. It might be a--a spirit of the church. It might be the spirit of the pastor. It might be the spirit of the world. It might be. I don't know what it is, but, whatever it is, it might be a denominational spirit, "I'm Methodist. I'm Baptist. I'm Presbyterian. I'm Pentecostal. I'm this." That's Pentecost.

L-211   Now remember, let me straighten it; pentecost is not an organization, pentecost is an experience that you receive. You Methodists, Baptists, Catholics, and all, can experience pentecost. You can't join pentecost, 'cause there is no way to join it.

L-212 I've been in the Branham family for fifty-five years. You know, they never did ask me to become a Branham. I was born, a Branham.

L-213 And that's how you're a Christian, you are born a Christian. That's right, now.

L-214   Oh, that private life! "Oh, I tell you, my pastor goes to these dances, and we do the twist. They have it." All right. See? "Don't you come telling me what I can do and what I can't do." All right, see, you won't let Him in.


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