<TITLE>04. Par 33-37</TITLE>L-33 Now, just look at that spirit, how it rose up back there in Cain, how it come on down through Ham, on out through Nimrod, into Babylon; out of Babylon, come on down into the days of the coming of Jesus. Teachers, Bible students, and they failed to recognize the Lord Jesus Christ. And there they was standing there, polished scholars, holy men, righteous, knowing the Word, just every letter of It, and where It was and how It was written, knowed It by heart through and through, every scroll and everything, had to be born in a certain lineage of men, or a priesthood, to come, or--or a tribe, to come out to be a priest. Polished scholars, seminary students today would be a back number up aside of one of them, and, yet, failed to know Jesus. And when Jesus come, they were holy men, and Jesus said, "You're of your father, the devil." Said, "You do err not knowing the power of God, neither the Word of God." Could you imagine the Lord Jesus Christ calling a holy, righteous scholar, Bible student, a devil? But He did. And now, if you'll go back, you'll find out where it come from.

L-34 And, watch, it's moving right out today in a terrible force all around... It behooves you, my brother, sister, to consider what you're listening at, and don't you never underestimate Satan's power for deceiving. Don't you never underestimate him. He's smooth as he can be. And the antichrist spirit isn't communism. No. The antichrist spirit is so close like the real thing till it'll deceive the very elect if possible. Jesus said so, Matthew 24. It's a religious spirit. Oh, why, Cain and Abel were brothers. The crow and the dove set on the same roost. Esau and Jacob were brothers. Judas and Jesus was in the same church, One the Preacher and the other one the treasurer. See there, always just the deceiving... The lie that Cain... that Satan told Eve, was ninety percent truth, ninety percent truth. And the lie that you can tell...
How I've heard men bypass pieces in the Scripture, just to keep from... It hurts their theology. See? But if--if--if this part's right, that part's right. Let's put it together and make it fit through the whole Bible. Now, in the beginning when God...

L-35 We--we won't have time in this, to go back to there, but we're going to start up here at the beginning of the church. And that was when God... Now, the word "church" means "called out, the called-out people." And I believe, in every denomination under the heaven today, there's got to be some good people in every one of them. And I believe that if Jesus comes, it'll be a called-out group. And I believe that we're way away from the coming of the Lord. As far as the church is concerned, our conditions are in no conditions for the coming of the Lord. We can't have faith for Divine healing, let alone to be raptured. There's got to be something happen.

L-36 Why, if somebody speak of rapture, and they say, "What are you talking about?" Some of the people, members of the church. Talk about Divine healing, "I don't believe in such." They can't see. Say, "Well, I believe they hypnotized them." Well, how could that person ever go in a rapture? How could he resurrect from the dead when there's nothing to resurrect from? There's nothing there to resurrect him.

L-37 It's just a make-belief, mental psychic. When you say, "I believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God," that's all right, but, brother, if that isn't coming from the heart, why, it's only mentally. And it can't come from the heart until the Holy Ghost bears record of it. Jesus said no man... Or the Bible said, "No man can say Jesus is the Christ, only by the Holy Ghost." And you can't say it in yourself; the Holy Spirit has to speak it from you. Look when Jesus...


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