<TITLE>15. Par 57-61</TITLE>L-57 Why, he said he couldn't understand that, I guess. But notice, he blessed them because God had blessed them. And look what he said. "I have not beheld iniquity in Jacob." And he was looking from the side of the rock.
God said, "I've seen him from the hilltops." Hallelujah. His Church, His group, why, they wasn't a nation. They wasn't a organized like the rest of the people. They had organism but no--no nation. He said, "The people will dwell among themselves. They'll not be a nation."
And that's the way of the Church of God today, the called out group of people. It doesn't mean because you're Methodist you're... or it doesn't mean because you're a Pentecost. It means out of every group, God's calling people, giving them the Holy Ghost, and that's the Church, the called out. Certainly it is. He calls them out. They're not an organization; they're a organism. Their hearts are beating together. They're one in Christ Jesus. Hallelujah.

L-58 Oh, he said--said, "Well, they're... Look at them, they're not even a nation. They're little old mission-trotters, just a typical bunch of holy-rollers." That's right. Well, look at them. Well, here stood the princes, the bishop, the archbishop, all the great elders. How in the world, God can move with this Church today, I can't tell you.
Look, the highest order in the Bible for the church, the local church is the elder. And the elder can't move until the bishop says. Has... God has to come through the bishop, down through the, oh, about fifteen different men before He can get to the elder.

L-59 But let me tell you, the Church of God is led by the Spirit of God. They move as the Spirit moves them. God didn't promise just to move with bishops. Elders is what's the head of the church, every church.
Now, God sends a message, He'd send it to His elders. But if He has to go out and see what the bishop says and what the district presbyter says... And everybody in the church is a pulling to get a feather in your hat. "Maybe I can be the district man next year if I pull a few tricks here and a few there." Brother, I don't care about the district man, I want to be a Christian next year. Hallelujah. Contending for the faith that was once delivered to the saints...

L-60 Look, when that spirit come on down... It come into the days of Jesus. Here was Jesus. He was fundamental as they were. And they were just fundamental as He was. But He had signs and wonders, believers, following Him. And they refused Him and rejected Him.
And that same old spirit of Cain moving right down through, religious...
And now, notice, the Holy Spirit spoke that in the last days perilous times would come, men would be lovers of their own selves. "I'm Dr. So-and-so." Lovers of their... proud, boasters, blasphemers, disobedient, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, trucebreakers, incontinent, and despisers of those that are good, having a form of godliness," fundamentally, but would deny the power thereof; from such turn away. For this is the sort that go from house to house and lead silly women.

L-61 "Well, we have a stitch-and-sew party." Stitch-and-sew, yeah, you stitch-and-sew, and sew-and-stitch, and stitch-and-sew and talk about Miss So-and-so and everything else. Why, it's a shame. What you need is an old fashion upper room, with a prayer meeting, where you pray down the power of God, and the Holy Ghost begins to move. That's what you need.
Earnestly contending for the faith that was once delivered to the saints... What they did back there... They didn't have all these different things, and all this here societies, and this societies, and that organization, and this organization. They were one in Christ Jesus. The Holy Ghost poured out His power upon them, and they went forth doing miracles and signs.


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