<TITLE>11. Par 36-39</TITLE>L-36 Notice, now under the first reformation was Luther. And then he organized and made the Lutheran Church. The Pillar of Fire begin to move out, but the Lutherans couldn't move because they already had their documents drawed up, "We believe this and that's it." And when God showed new revelations, the Lutherans couldn't move.
So there was a fellow by the name of John Wesley, who saw the vision, the Pillar of Fire moving. And so he saw the Message of sanctification, and called it the second work of grace. And Methodists... Luther could not go into that because they were not taught that. Then Wesley taken up and taught sanctification, and caused a great revival to sweep the land.
The Wesleyan Age saved England out of it's corruption, when the Calvinist church in England had got so corrupt, till they didn't even believe in revivals no more. "What God's going to do, He's going to do, so what difference does it make? If He's going to save them, they're born to be saved or they're born to be lost." Oh, what a condition to get into. God sent a mediocre.
And He sent John Wesley who preached sanctification. And then the trouble that Wesley made, he organized a church called the Methodist. And then they wrote up their document, "We believe in this and that's it." And then one day the Pillar of Fire begin to move again. And Wesley could not move with That, because he was already organized to it.

L-37 And there was a group of people called themselves Pentecost. They saw the Pillar of Fire, and received the Holy Ghost, and received the--the gifts of the Spirit, speaking in tongues, and so forth. And away they went, moved right on out and caused a revival, till even the "Our Visitor, the Sunday Visitor," of the Catholic Church admitted a couple of years ago, that the Pentecostal Church had even outdone them that year, over a million five hundred thousand converts in the Pentecostal ranks. One of the fastest growing churches in the world was the Pentecostal people.
But what did the devil do? He come along and made them organize, and they begin to organize and draw fences and lines. And you know what? The Pillar of Fire has... moving out again, and the Pentecostal people's so organized they can't move with It. But God's Fire's moving right on just the same, and He will do it in every age. And never a church, through history, that ever fell ever revived again. You know that. They are down.
And we must not draw boundary lines. We must say, "We believe this," not end with a period, but with a comma. "We believe this, plus as much as God will pour into our hearts." That's--that's... "We believe this."

L-38 Now, God, in the beginning back there, when the... just beautiful, those types... I wish we only had time to go through it, but within fifteen, twenty minutes I have left, we couldn't do it, of course. But I'd just like to take one that's on my mind now of those three.
Look at when Elijah found Elisha and told him to walk with him. And then he said, "You tarry here for I must go up to--to another city."
And Elisha, the prophet that was to take his place, said, "As the Lord liveth, and thy soul liveth, I'll not leave thee."
Now, that was Elisha. Well, Elijah was a type of Christ, being translated, and Elisha was a type of the Church that was to take His place and finish His ministry with a double portion. See?

L-39 Now. Then he said, "I go up to the school of prophets," the second journey. He said, "You stay here."
But Elisha said, "As your soul liveth, I'll not leave you."
And he went on. And when he got to the school of the prophets, he said, "I cross Jordan." He said, "You stay here."
He said, "As thy soul liveth, I'll not stay here. I'll go with you." I like that, a determination to hold on. Regardless of the price, move on; keep going on with God, deeper waters, deeper experiences, more love. There's no limit to it. It's unlimited.


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