<TITLE>04. Par 11-13</TITLE>L-11 Now, if the Church of the living God, which is the pillar of the truth... God intended this Church to be a powerful Church, a glorious Church, a Church that the whole world could look upon as a--a Bride of Christ well expected and espoused, and to live in such a--an atmosphere and conduct itself in such a way that the--God would be proud of this Church to present it to Christ at the coming of the Lord. It should live in that--in that characteristic in the Church, and it should be living that way. But we find out that many times that with good intentions that people are trying to make themselves act like Christians. They're trying to say, "Well, I am thus, and--and I must live this way."
Now, if the church could only not look at it in that way. But Christianity and the church... God never intended Christianity to be governed by denominations, neither by creeds, or He... If God only allowed or intended for the church to be governed and carried on by creeds and denominations and intellectuals, then we do not need the Holy Spirit in the church. Our church then should... It's success would be largely placed upon the intellectuals of the best of us. That would be what our church would have, would... The better intellectuals we would have in our church, the more progressive our--our church would be.

L-12 But in the Word I find that God did not intend for the church to be governed by intellectual or by any theology of man, but the Holy Spirit was given to the Church to govern and control the body of Christ. And I think in doing that, with that in mind and in God's program, we will never be successfully, no matter how good our intentions are, until we get back into the center of God's program where the Holy Spirit...
Now, realizing that this is no new thing to preach on, It is something that's been preached on many times, but the way we approach it and the way that we take it, we take it still thinking that it is a Holy Spirit controlled church. And yet we put our intellectuals mixed with it, and then we can get a conglomeration of both Holy Spirit and intellectuals. And when the Holy Spirit desires to do a thing and degrades something, or lifts something up, it causes petty jealousy amongst the people, which proves that they haven't got the Holy Spirit. Every man would want to be in his place.
Now, in this the people has a reason because they have seen so much denominationals and so many different dictators, as it was, spiritual dictators in the church to say thus and thus. But the Holy Spirit has placed each one into the body of Christ, and we're helpless to maneuver without every member of our body. We have to have my hands, my arms, my mouth, my eyes, my... Everything that's in me has to operate to make my body function perfectly. And then if God wanted His body, the Church, to be governed by His Spirit, there has got to be some way or some program that we've got to enter into other than what we have already had.

L-13 Now, the Bible said here, Ezekiel speaking... And Ezekiel was a prophet, and he said, "A new heart will I give you..." I like it, always God speaking of something new that He's going to do. He doesn't... He didn't say now... That doesn't mean that He will just patch up the old condition, but, "A new heart will I give you: and I'll take away the stony heart which you have, and a new spirit will I give you."
He never--He never said He would have a--a--a face-lift to the old church. He would have a new thing, a brand new. And in doing this you can't mix an old intellectual church with a new Pentecostal experience church.


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