The Way Back

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Listen, any birth is a mess, I don’t care whether it is in a pigpen, or where it is at, it is a mess, any birth, and so is the new birth, it will—it will make you do things that you didn’t think you would ever do, but it brings Life, and before you can have Life, you have to have death. Before a seed can reproduce itself, it’s got to die in order, and not only die, but it’s got to rot, in order to get new life out of it, it’s got to die and rot in itself. And so does every sinner. Every man, no matter how highly he’s educated, and how much he is polished, how many degrees he has in the church, or so forth, how many of these things, how many colleges he is educated out of, he has got to die to his own theory, he has got to die to himself, he has got to die to everything to be reborned again by the Holy Ghost.