Thought Of The Day  

God cannot change His character, no more than--than a--a lamb can change its character, or any other thing can changes its characteristics. Because, as long as it's in its original, it's original. And if you change anything, then you've changed it from its original. It's just like you can take a--a hog, and you can wash a hog and--and put that paint on its toenails, like the women does, and fix it up with lipstick, and put it on a nice dress. Turn that old sow out, she go right straight to the wallow, and wallow again. Why? She is a hog, that's all. But, and, but, you know, you wouldn't make... A lamb wouldn't do that. He won't even get in that mud. He don't want nothing to do with it. It's the characteristics of it. See? You might dress him in the same kind of clothes, but he sure won't, he sure won't go. The outside doesn't matter; it's the inside. Now, God being the source of all life... ~ 64-0320  GOD IDENTIFYING HIMSELF BY HIS CHARACTERISTICS

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If you had a hog nature, believing God sent a prophet wouldn’t change you. Being baptized in Jesus’ Name wouldn’t change you. Going to church and following rules of conduct and dress wouldn’t change you. But, if down inside of you there was a gene of election that cried out to God and then you received the Quickening power of the Holy Ghost, to bring that gene to life, that newly born life would push that old hog nature out. Why? Because from the beginning you were never a hog, and you could never be satisfied being a hog.