<TITLE>16. Par 71-74</TITLE>L-71 So look, in the days of Cain and Abel, notice, Cain was just as religious as Abel was. And notice, when he worshipped, he built his altars; he made it pretty just like a fine big church. He--he wasn't an unbeliever; he bowed down and worshipped. And God absolutely refused him.
If God's just and only requires faith in Him, if God only requires faith, only requires sacrifice, only requires membership of the church, God would be unjust to condemn that boy. For he absolutely was a believer in God. He confessed the same publicly, he was a believer in God.
He built a church to the Lord, an altar; he brought his fruits in and made it beautiful, and made a sacrifice and done obligations, and worshipped the Lord. Brother, that's a pretty good church member today. Is that right? And God refused him.

L-72 But look, coming here, at Abel, not with working. Wrapped a little vine around this old sheep's neck, and here he come pulling him up there, throwed him upon the altar and begin to beat his throat, and killed him. Why? Abel had a revelation. We're letting that soak just a minute.
It was a revelation that Abel had that made him just. He had a revelation of the requirement of Almighty God, and he brought a lamb. And that's the only way that you'll ever be able to see Divine healing, the baptism of the Holy Ghost, it'll be by revelation.
When they come down off the mountain... Here it is, I'll prove it. They come down off the mountain and Jesus said, "Who does man say I am?"
Well, some of them said, "You're Elias."
Other ones said, "Why, You're of the prophets." Just like they try to tack now the coat of Elijah and so forth, all them things you know. They had the same spirits them day; they just living on today.

L-73 "Some said, You're Elias, and some say You're the prophet, and some say You're this or that or that or the other."
He said, "But who do you say I am."
Peter said, "Thou art the Christ the Son of the living God."
He said, "Blessed art thou Simon Bar-jona, for no seminary revealed this to you. No tholo--theologians ever revealed this to you. Not flesh and blood has not, but My Father which is in heaven. And upon this Rock I'll build My Church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against It."
What is it? The revelation of God. There you are. The... God reveals sinner truth in the Spirit. "Upon this Rock (the spiritual revelation of God) I'll build My Church and the gates of hell can't prevail against It." So you can fight the holy-rollers, as you call them, all you want to; God's Church will prevail right--go right on to end of time. Yes, sir.

L-74 They'll always had healings and signs and wonders; God worked with them through the age. And you look back there and see what the Pharisees did, they fought against it. You see where they went. Don't get on that same group, better get over here. You see where the rel... Oh, they had scholars; they had good pastors. They had smart man, educated, everything. They had everything that they had needed of in that day, scholarship far beyond what we got now. Even a man had to be so holy. He had to be borned in a certain tribe or he couldn't even be a minister. Had everything like that and yet when they come, Jesus said, "You got the devil." Said, "You're of your father the devil." Is that right? Yes, sir, polished scholars... So therefore religious spirits, instead of making--cutting a man and making him be a maniac, he can be a shrewd scholar too.
Look at the devil when he met Jesus. He said, "If Thou be the Son of God, command these stones to be turned to bread."
Jesus said, "It's written: man shall not live by bread alone."


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