Be Burly

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52 024 There seems to be something among men. Men don't seem to be, have that masculine touch that he used to have. Women don't have that feminish touch she used to have. You take men today, men don't seem to be burly like they used to be. It's all some sort of a... They want to wear suede shoes with purple, and--and they want to act like women. Now, that is true. It seems to be, more or less, like a perversion. A woman wants to cut off her hair and--and act like a--a man. And a man wants to act like a woman. See? And yet you can talk to them, and they're nice people to talk to, nice people, friendly, sociable people. What's caused this? It's that gross darkness upon the people; it's something that--that's pressed them into it.

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38-4 097 Oh, church of the living God, we can't stand around here on little "sugar-tits" that we're nursing around here today; we've got to be full and prayed up with Quickening Power until the quickening of the Holy Ghost... We got to be caught away someday in that rapture yonder. Yes, sir. Amen. Oh, my.

Excuse that expression. I was thinking about a mother that makes those little sacks (we used to) for the baby. Some of you old mammies remember. Little old baby gets to squalling, you take some coffee grounds and some sugar, wrap it up in a sack and let him suck on it, just to pacify him. There's no strength in that; it'll kill him. See? That old caffeine in there and stuff with a little sweetener to make him swallow it down, was getting caffeine in him.

We're tired of such stuff as that. Get back. You're eagles. Back to the Word of God. Be burly; nothing can hurt your feelings. Therefore, you're free from all the scandal of men. Whatever anybody says against you, that just brings more love. Quickening Power, caught away into the heavenlies, a eagle that's done flew above the chickens, way up yonder in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

FAITH COMETH BY HEARING CHICAGO IL 54-0320

E-26 And then in the--the 10th chapter here, we find him now dividing what faith is. Now, faith is burly. My, how I like to think of faith: hope, faith, and charity, those three things. And hope, what a beautiful thing hope is. Little, timid hope, lovely and sweet as she is, yet, she's the greatest enemy faith has. That's right. The greatest enemy faith's got is hope. 'Cause a person becomes so hopeful till they leave away from faith.

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E-27 Now, hope will agree with the Bible. Hope will say, "It's True." Hope will say, "I believe every bit of It. I believe that that's the Word of God. And I--I--I believe that God will keep His promise." Hope believes all of that. But hope then says, "Now, I believe that God will heal, but look at my condition."

Now, faith don't look at that. Faith comes around, "I don't care nothing about conditions. God said so, and it's mine." You see? Faith's burly. As I once said, "Faith has hair on the chest. When it stands up and pulls its big muscles out, everything else vanishes away." Just takes--flies away. When faith really takes a hold, nothing else stands.

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E-28 I'm telling you, faith... But you've got to have hope and charity. If you've got real burly faith and no love with it, you've ruin your influence before the people (if you haven't got love mixed with it). See? You seen people, a real burly, what we would say (excuse the expression) a bulldog faith, to grab a hold, but is so rough with it. Then you see when you do that, it doesn't--it hasn't got the kindness here to move with it. So what we need is hope, faith, and charity. Isn't that right? Hope, faith, and charity, together. God help our church to have it like that, the people, to have that combination.

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E-53 Just makes things seem so petty. These little things of the earth here. So like so juvenile to even think of them. We ought to be great giants in God today, not little, bitty children. As long as Christ has been with us and blessing us, and doing the things He has, and we see His great works, and still babies.

Paul said, "When... while... When we ought to be able to give meat, you're still taking meat, not able to take meat, but still giving milk." That's right. Still have to take the milk, sincere milk of the Gospel, when you should be strong and eating meat. See?

My, when we see what God does, and His great mighty workings, His Word vindicated, we should be big and burly. That's right. You know why? We just don't eat enough.

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E-30 Here some time ago when some girls was fooling with radium, and would dip it and paint the radium hands on--on--on the watches... I have some on this one. And a girl made a mistake and took the brush and stuck it in her mouth. It killed her. And years and years later they took a microscope and put it on the skull of that girl, and they could still hear that radium going on, "Burr, rrr, rrrr." It's endless. It keeps working on and on. There's no stopping to it.

And, oh, brother, if radium has that kind of an effect, endless, how much more will the endless, eternal, supernatural, all powerful, all infinite, almighty God. He has to have the same effect as He started, He has to have it all through, or He's not the almighty, all powerful God. He's still waiting for somebody with a burly faith that'll step out and challenge the enemy on the basis of His Word and say that it's so.

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E-47 You say, "Oh, yes, I believe it." Oh, I've seen people say that, and if faith was ink, you couldn't dot an "i." They just--just simply--just worked up. It's hope instead of faith. Genuine faith don't take "no" for an answer. It's--it's got hairs on the chest; it's big and burly. It's speaks and everything else sets down. That's all.

If the old... You know, feelings raise up and say, "You--you don't feel any different. You--you just..."

You say, "Shut-up." Faith will. "Set down." God took over. That's it. Now, it... "Well, your stomach's still hurting."

"Shut-up! Don't even feel it." That's it.

That's... Don't--don't be... Sure, it's looking at what God said. God said so; so faith believes it. If you can just hold on faith, on and let--just let faith take over, it's makes the rest of them look like little dwarfs. It just makes them set down because He's the boss. Got great big brawny muscles, and I tell you, everything else, all feelings and superstitions and little isms and things, just sets down when faith takes over. He just... He's the boss. That's right.

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E-5 Send us men out of this wilderness like John the Baptist, who came forth burly and blasting, that prophet, speaking of a Messiah, was coming with His fan in His hand, that would thoroughly purge His floors, and burn the chaff with unquenchable fire.

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114 This Hereford, you pull hay under him, when you take his picture, up to his tummy, nearly to show his beef to the hock. And what is it? You turn him loose out there; he'd die. He couldn't winter it if he had to. You have to feed him, and everything else to take care of him, baby him around. He's a hybrid. See? But a real, genuine old longhorn, just turn him loose.

That's the way today with our Christians. We got so many we have to soft-soap to beg them, put them, make them a deacon in the church, pat him on the shoulder, and make him some great position in the church. Or, if you don't, why, he--he won't--he won't come in. If you don't let this one do this, and this one do that... It's babying.

Could you imagine genuine Christians being that? They were rugged. They were burly. Could you imagine Saint Paul being that type of a Christian? Could you imagine Saint Peter being now, "Now, if you don't make me general overseer, well, I don't know, I might go join So-and-so"? They were rugged men. They were men of faith. They lived with God. They walked with God. They were men of few words. They served God day and night, constantly. You didn't have to spray them, and baby them, and offer them this, that, or the other. They were men, rugged. They were genuine seeds, not hybrid in denominations.