<TITLE>11. Par 28-31</TITLE>L-28 Everywhere in the stage of the journey the Pillar of Fire went, Israel followed it. If It went this a way, they went that way. If It went that way, they went that way. Right hand or left, they followed on.
Notice, beautiful type. In the first reformation, there was a little man by the name of Martin Luther who got his eyes opened in the Scripture. And he knowed the just shall live by faith. And the Pillar of Fire begin to move out of that fifteen hundred years of dark ages, and Martin Luther saw the Pillar of Fire moving, he blasted the Gospel trumpet and went out with it, build under it. But the thing of it was, Luther organized the church.
This is going to hurt. But, brother, just like my mother, I think she's here tonight. When I was a little kid we had to eat, just take our meat skins that we'd get from the store, and put it in a--a bread pan, and render it out, and make the lard, and put--mix up some meal in there, and make hoe cakes. I don't know whether you know what they are or not. The horrible thing was, was every Saturday night we had to take a big dose of Castor Oil. I can't even stand to hardly say the name. Ever... I'd hold my nose; I'd gag; I'd say, "Mama, I just can't take that stuff. It makes me so sick."
She said, "Honey, if it don't make you sick, it don't do you any good." So I'll say that's the same thing tonight. If this don't make you right good and sick, it won't help you, maybe. All right.

L-29 God never did deal with organizations. God deals with men. The Holy Ghost never fell on organizations, it fell on men. It's right. Notice, the first organized church was the mother church, the Catholic church. And the rest of them are offsprings from her. Now, but the word "church" means "called out, separated."
Now, notice. Then Luther, the pattern, he organized the Lutheran church. And one day the Pillar of Fire moved out. And Luther was so organized and had his rituals and things, he couldn't move with it.

L-30 So there was a little fellow in England named John Wesley and he saw the Pillar of Fire moving, and away he went with it and preached sanctification. Luther couldn't preach sanctification, 'cause he preached justification. So Wesley begin to preach sanctification and away they went. The Fire moved on. Well then, the first thing you know, Wesley become so organized. You even had to be a Wesley Methodist, or he was nothing; you was not in it. That's right. And then off come these other little springs from it.
And one day, the Pillar of Fire begin to move away. And the Pentecostal groups saw it. So Wesley couldn't take speaking in tongues and gifts of the Spirit and things. They--he had to stay there: he'd taught against it. So he was organized so tight he couldn't move, and the Pillar of Fire moved on away from him. And the Pentecost moved with it. That's right. But now here, now the Pentecost is organized so tight, the Pillar of Fire is moving again and they can't move. That's just exactly right. Amen. But brethren, God's Fire is moving just the same. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Just the same. And God...

L-31 Looky here. The organized church was Moses, the law giver. And the law giver, Moses, glorified himself in the stead of God, and wasn't permitted to take the children over Jordan. And the church today is glorifying themselves: "I belong to the Assemblies"; "I belong to the Church of God"; "I belong to this, that or the other." What are you anyhow? That's right. It's the truth. Now, there's good men in every one of them. We are brethren; break down that thing.
But look. A man that'd been with them all along, Joshua, a type of the signs and wonders, he was the one who was permitted, not the church group, not the organization, but Joshua was pulled out and took the children of Israel across Jordan. That's right. Amen.


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