<TITLE>13. Par 112-122</TITLE>L-112   But what did the prophet say? The same one that said for our text tonight, "Rejoice, O daughters of Jerusalem, shout loud, daughters of Zion, for your King is coming to you, meek and lowly, sitting upon the foal of an ass," notice that same prophet said, "There'll come a time of the ripening." The sun is sent upon the earth to ripen the fruit. Why couldn't it ripen? There's no fruit there to ripen. But the Life is still traveling on.

L-113   It come up through a grapefruit, to be an orange, found out it organized; it was a grapefruit. It went again, it come out that time a lemon. Went on again, it turned out to something else. And in the last, top of the tree, it's turned out to a tangelo, which is half orange, half lemon; a mixed breed, a perverted thing; come on to a perversion, living off that same tree; the shuck, "almost deceive the Elected." Looks like an orange, but it ain't.

L-114 "But it shall be Light," when she grows beyond organization. When she gets out a-past organization, it blooms out again, she'll put forth oranges like she was when she went into the ground, and then it shall be Light.

L-115 What's this attraction; what's this happening? Fulfilling God's Word. There is two witnesses of the Old Testament, that this would happen.

L-116   Let's take John 14:12, of the New Testament, Jesus said.
... He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also;...

L-117 Also, in Luke 17:22 to 30, He said.
As it was in the days of Lot, before Sodom, was burned, so shall it be at the return of the Son of man, that day when the Son of man is being revealed.

L-118 Oh, just look at the Scriptures! "The Son of man," Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever, growed a-past denominations, growed into the top of the Tree. What did He say in John 14, or 15? "Every branch that's in Me, that doesn't bring forth the fruit, it'll be cut off and pruned, throwed into the fire and burned. But every branch that'll bring forth fruit, it'll be purged."

L-119   Oh, there will be a true former and latter rain in the last days upon that little group that come with Him on this little donkey, low and humble, no don-... or denomination, crying, "Hosanna to the King that comes in the Name of the Lord!" What's the matter today? What's the attraction on the mount?

L-120   Not long ago, standing at this pulpit, it was said by the Holy Spirit, "The day will come that when they'll drive down a stake in front of your house; they'll move your gate. So, that, you'll bypass it, not be angry." I seen my gate tore up and laying out upon the hillside. I seen the hill in front of me, all dug up, boards and things laying there where something had mashed it up. He said...
I looked, and there was a little Ricky that had got up there and knocked that gate out, done this. I said, "Why didn't you tell me?" He got smart with me, and I had to hit him. And when it did, I said, "I haven't done this since I was in the ring, but I just want you to know," and I swatted him one. And when I knocked him down, I picked him up again and knocked him down again. I picked him up, three or four times, then kicked him over the hill. So then I went over there, and I said, "That ain't right." And I picked him up and shook his hands, I said, "I'm not angry with you, but I just want you to know you can't talk to me like that."
And then when I turned and come back, the Holy Spirit was standing there at the gate, said, "Now bypass this. When that stake is drove down, turn westward."
This Book, everything that I need,
This Book is a good Recipe,
The way that shows to go around my trouble. Amen!

L-121 And that Book is the Word, and that Word is God. Bypass your troubles, It'll tell you what to do.

L-122   Three years ago I heard a friend of mine, the city surveyor, lives down the lane from me, driving a stake down. I went out there and said, "What's the matter, Mud?" Mr. King's son, personal friend.
Said, "Billy, they're going to widen this road."


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