And that’s the way a man is. When you’re lost, brother, I don’t care how much reforming you try to do, you’re absolutely helpless until the Shepherd come get you. That’s…You can’t save yourself. There’s no way at all of doing it. A—a leopard could lick his spots just as hard as he could; you could scrub him with sal soda, anything you want to, it’ll only brighten the spots. So there’s no way we can reform ourself, or lay aside this, or turn a new page; there’s only one thing left for us to do, that’s accept what the Word said do, be borned again, or lost. That’s true now. God, Jesus Christ said that: “Except a man be born of water and of Spirit, he will in no wise enter into the Kingdom.” Whether he’s little, big, ignorant, or whatever he is, he’s got to meet those conditions. Jesus said so.

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