Preparation

But now, this man can’t help because that he dreams a dream. Now, there’s some of you here didn’t raise your hand, perhaps you never had dreams. Well now, that man, his subconscious is way away from him, way back like at the wall there. He never gets back to it. He sleeps sound. A man that dreams is not—he is not sound...

In the garden of Eden there were two trees: one was Life, one was knowledge. Man left the Tree of Life to eat off the tree of knowledge. And the first bite he took, he separated himself from God. And every time a man bites off of that tree of knowledge, he destroys himself. He bit off gun powder, kills his comrade. He...

Now, God, in the beginning when Adam and Eve…Man has always tried to prepare himself. Oh, yes, sir, he tries to prepare himself. When he first sinned in the beginning, the first thing you know, he went out and prepared himself an apron: fig leaves, wrapped it around him. He’s making himself…Now, the word “religion” mea...

I told you the other night that Cain was a believer. And I’ll give you a little stronger meat than that tonight if you want to believe it. The devil is a believer. The Bible says he is. He believes and trembles. The devil is a believer. Now, if belief and faith in God is all you have to have to be saved, then the devil...

If I asked you how’d I get across the Ohio River here? You’d say, “By the bridge.” That’s right. Everybody says, “By faith are you saved; Christ is the way.” That’s right, Christ is the way. But how do you get to Christ? Now, there’s His body; the Bible said, “Not by one letter, not by one’s confession, not by one prof...

Now, another thing, “Well, now my boy, I believe you’re to become a minister. We will see the doctor and elder and all of them, and we’ll give you the right hand of fellowship. We’ll send you off to a seminary, and we’ll teach you all about this thing.” Never that, no, sir, that wasn’t God’s preparation. He said, “Wait...