<TITLE>06. Par -</TITLE>L-158-52 And I have no creed but the Bible. This is God's Creed, and the Holy Spirit is the Interpreter of That; and He brings It on from one light to another. The Gospel I'm preaching today, if I shall live to see another hundred years, if we would, there'll be more Light. Just constantly, it's always come.
You used to ride an ox cart, your great-grandfather, when he went to see grandmother. Dad went to see mother in a T-model. But now we almost go in a jet plane. See, we're moving on: science moving on. Education's moving on; the Gospel moving on. And the Bible said they would, said, "They'll run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase." So that's the joint. That's the reason there's...

L-158-54 The Protestant denominational churches is the image of the beast, because it's denominated just exactly like Catholicism is. And God never did order His Church to be organized in any age, but has always bitterly condemned it. Now, do you get it? Not the people, the church...
When they try to bring people under a--a light of... Here. What if people tried to get you to go back and start running around in an ox cart? You wouldn't stand for it; we're living in a better age. That's the way it is back there. If somebody tried to tell me, "Oh, the only thing you have to do is this, that."... I'm living in another age. I... That's the trouble with ministers; they're always looking back.

L-158-56 Here. A French scientist said less than three hundred years ago if a man would ever make the terrific speed of thirty miles an hour, gravitation would take him from the earth: thirty miles an hour. Well, do you think that science would refer back to that today? Far be it. No, sir. They got him going about nine or ten hundred miles an hour. Yet... Or sometimes in a rocket, and then it's sixteen hundred miles an hour, and still taking him forward.
Science has taken man forward, more forward, greater things with his mind than what (and that's the only thing he has, is the tree of knowledge)--farther than the ministers taking him with his spirit, which is unlimited. But here's what it is. The science ain't looking back to what science said a few years ago; science is taking what they got now and moving forward for something else.

L-159-58 But you ask the preacher; "Well, we'll see what Moody said about it; we'll see what Wesley said about it." I don't care what they said about it; I know what God said about it now. This is it, and I'm still looking for a greater. That's it. That's the reason...
The Bible said, "Three unclean spirits come out of the mouth of the beast." Do you know what unclean spirits? Said like frogs. Did you ever notice how a frog looks? A frog's always looking backward; he never looks forward: looking back, always back, look back.
But the four beasts that had the four different heads, in Ezekiel, was looking forward, and they couldn't go backward. They were moving forward all the time. Everywhere they went, they was going straight forward. See the difference?
Now, that's the connection that Protestantism has with Catholicism.

L-159-62 So you're always throwing off on the Catholics, but pot can't call kettle black. That's right.
I say, "Are you a Christian?"
"I'll give you to understand; I belong to the Baptist church." Yeah. That has no more to do with it than to say that you belonged out here to the--a farm somewhere.
"Well, I belong to the Catholic church." That still don't make you a Christian. Belonging to the Baptist or Methodist church don't make you a Christian. There's only one way to be a Christian. The word "Christian" means "Christ-like." And you can't do it; you can't work it in yourself; there's no way at all you can do it. You have to forget yourself, die out to yourself, and let Christ come in and live the Life of Christ in you.


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