90. The sheep doesn't manufacture wool. He has wool because he is a sheep. A lot of people trying to say, "Well, I'll try to get good. I'll try to do this." Don't manufacture nothing. No, you can't do it. A sheep doesn't, isn't asked, isn't expected to manufacture wool. It bears wool, and it does it because it's a sheep.
91 And when you're a Christian, you just bear the fruit of the Spirit. You don't—you don't manufacture it. You don't try to make it up. You try… Don't make yourself something that you're not. You just become what you're supposed to be, and then it takes care of itself. Have you heard people say, "Well, I tell you. I'm… I've joined church. I—I really ought to quit this lying"? You're trying to manufacture something again, now. You can't do it, so there's no need of trying to, no more than a—than a—a mule can make hisself have wool. He can't do it. 62-1014M - "The Stature Of A Perfect Man"
94 Well, now that's the way it is, trying to—to manufacture Christianity. You can't do it. The first thing you've got to do, is be born again. You've got to be changed. See? And when you're changed, you become a new creation. Now you're getting right, now. 62-1014M - "The Stature Of A Perfect Man"
And we're not asked to manufacture fruits; we're supposed to produce fruit (See?), bear fruits. See? We are supposed to bear fruits. And as long as you are a fruit tree of God with God's Word, God's Word will vindicate Itself. It'll bear fruit as long as the Word's in there. And Jesus said, "If ye abide in Me and My Word in you, ask what you will, and it shall be done." See it? You don't manufacture it. You work yourself not up to it; it's just actually there. And it goes on and on.63-0317M - "God Hiding Himself In Simplicity, Then Revealing Himself In The Same"
205 And when you are a Christian, you'll cope with the Word. I don't care what anybody else says. You don't have to work up nothing, and bring down nothing, pull, pump up. You're a Christian. You just automatically bear the fruit of the Spirit. See? See, and that's the way it is. See? 206 But, people today, they don't want you fooling with their private life.
207 Only thing you do, just open up every door around, now say, "Come on in, Jesus." Watch what happens. When you see in the Book, you're supposed to do this, you'll do it. Why? You're a sheep, to begin with, then. 65-0206 - "Doors In Door"
And a Christian is a Christian because Christ lives in that person. And makes… Christian means "Christ-like," not a membership; but, a vindication, God producing through you just what a Christian is. It's you getting out of the way and letting God come in, you taking no thoughts. Let the mind that was in Christ be in you. There you are. That's the real Christian. Oh, my! 63-1103 - "Go, Wake Jesus"
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