<TITLE>21. Par 218-227</TITLE>L-218 That's what's the matter with Pearry Green's old horse up there, and he throwed that boy the other day, he's nothing but an old quarter horse. See? The only thing it is, he... It's just like a mule, he's--he's... a mule don't know who his papa or mama is, he don't know nothing; he's half mule and half horse, and half this and donkey; he don't know what he is. You could never... He'll wait all of his life to get to kick you. That's right! You can call him, say, "Come on, boy. Come on, boy." He'll hold his ears up, and, "Haw! Haw! Haw!" See?

L-219   Like some of these saying "Days of miracles is past, Haw! Haw!" all these half-breeds, supposed to be church members and Christians. I ain't saying that for a joke, but it's the Truth. But a genuine, thoroughbred, brother, he knows who his father was, who his mother was, who his grandfather, grandmother was, you can teach him something, he's gentle.

L-220 And a genuine Christian that's born of the Holy Ghost and filled with God's power and Word, he knows who his father is, who his mother is, who his grandfather, grandmother was, he knows all about It. You can teach him something.

L-221 But a half-breed, that's what's come to churches. Hybrid between the world and religious organizations, and putting a little Word in it here, a little Word there, just enough to deceive. That's right. When you see the real Word of God being manifested like Caiaphas and them did, they turn away from It, they don't know. Hybrid!

L-222   Now we find out, and in this message, Isaiah 40:3 also vindicated John. He said, "A voice of one, a prophet, crying in the wilderness, 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make His path straight.'" The church did not believe him, for he was not of their group. That prophet was raised out of a wilderness, come up knowing no one. He had the very Spirit on him that Elijah had: he was a man of the wilderness, he hated immoral women.

L-223 Remember how Elijah... What caused his head to be taken from him? Was Jezebel. Jezebel was the cause of his death. It run him into the wilderness.

L-224 John the Baptist, another wilderness-lover, a hunter, a woodsman. Watch him. He had no education. Watch his--his text, wasn't like a theologian. He said, "O you generation of vipers!" The filthiest thing you can find in the wilderness, the sneakiness, was a--was a snake. And he called those priests, "You generation of vipers! Who's warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Don't begin to say, 'We belong to this, and we have this or that,' for I say unto you, God's able of these stones," wilderness. Also, "The axe" (what he used) "is laid to the root of the tree; and every tree that don't bring forth good fruit, hewn down and cast into the fire." Amen.

L-225   He was a preacher of nature. A great man of God, lived a short time, but certainly set a blaze across the earth. He shocked that generation in them six months of his ministry. God raised him for thirty years, to get that six months out of him. But God does His own way, He knows what His harvest is.

L-226 And we find out now that this is exactly what had took place. They didn't believe him, because he wasn't of them. They didn't. They did as usual, they didn't see It. They did not believe God's Word of Malachi 3, or they would have seen plainly, by the letter, that this was that forerunner. They hadn't had a prophet for four hundred years, and here one rises on the scene all at once. See? And the people, the believers, believed him to be that. See, they did not believe It. They did not believe, 'cause when they seen the letter completely confirmed, what He said He would do, and everything, and seen It clearly vindicated when the Word come right into the water to the prophet. There they stood.

L-227   There's many argue on that Scripture there about John. See, John said, "I have need to be baptized of Thee, and why comest Thou unto me?"


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