Let's Talk About Jesus
By David Berg - December 1970
Wine is like Jesus! This little bit of spirits is like the Holy Spirit! You get so full of it—you don't even worry about yourself any more; you forget yourself and you just are happy in spite of yourself!—And all you can think about is you're happy and you don't even care! It helps you forget the past and yourself and just be happy! 'Cause who the hell cares what a heel you are? Everybody's just such a damn heel themselves they don't want to hear what a heel you are! They're discouraged enough themselves without hearing about a failure like you! They want to hear about something better—like Jesus!
When Peter started looking at himself, he started to sink! It was no use! If you start looking at yourself you're going to sink sink sink, when you think think think, 'cause you stink stink stink!!! You have to you’re your eyes on Jesus! You've got to be so full of Jesus—like being full of wine—that you're so high, so drunk, so freaked out on Jesus you don't care what the hell happens! All you know is you love Jesus—Jesus loves you!—And that's all that matters.
They say the definition of a bore is somebody who talks about himself when I want to talk about myself! I think the worst bore is the kind that talks about himself when we ought to be talking about Jesus! We ought to be so drunk on the Holy Spirit that we don't care what the hell kind of character you’ve been or what you’ve done! We just want to hear about Jesus! I want to hear about some guy that made it—like Jesus! I want to forget about myself. I can't even stand to think about me! I'm terrible! I can't stand the sight any more! I want to hear about Jesus!
To hell with you! And to hell with me! We're a hell of a mess, and we deserve it! The only hope we've got is drowning ourselves in Jesus and filling ourselves with the Holy Spirit and getting so drunk on the Lord that we don't care what you're like or what I'm like!—All we care about is Jesus—and all we want to do is drink Jesus—get drunk on Jesus—talk Jesus—forget the things that are behind! It's a lot of BEhind! I don't wanna hear about it!
I wanna press forward to the things that are before and I wanna get high on the calling of Jesus—drunk on the Spirit—full of the wine of salvation—so I can forget what a hell of a mess I am! I wanna get so full of Jesus I can't even remember who you are or what we're here for—except for Jesus! All I wanna remember is Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so!
When all you wanna talk about is your damn self and your damn sins you haven't had enough of Jesus!—'Cause if you were drunk with the Spirit you wouldn't even remember all that!
Not I, but Christ! "But it is not I that live, but Christ!" If you keep talking about your damn stupid self, you're not dead yet! You need to get so drunk on the Spirit that all you want to do is talk about Jesus!
Drink yourself under the table on the Spirit to where you don't even care if anybody kicks you—you're happy, you're so full of His wine! All you care about is another shot of Jesus! Let's get drunk on the Spirit! Who the hell cares how bad you score or how bad I score or who wins or loses? Let's just get stoned on Jesus!—So we don't care who wins or loses as long as we have Jesus! I am determined to see no man among you save Jesus only.
I just wanna hear about Jesus! Let's just hear what Jesus has done—in you and through you and by you and about you and to you and with you and for you—and all about Jesus! Whatever it is, I just want to hear about Jesus!
Let's talk about Jesus! If He’s lifted up, He’ll draw us all to Him! Let's just look at Jesus, huh? Let's take a look at Jesus! Look and live! Life for a look!