<TITLE>04. Par 12-15</TITLE>L-12 Now, did he have corn? Potentially he did, but not in the ear. Now, it's just like if I gave you a--you asked me for a oak tree, and I gave you an acorn. Potentially you have the oak tree, because the oak tree is in the acorn. And then, in the grain of corn you do have the corn, but yet, it's just potentially. You have the grain.
Now, the farmer said, "Look at my corn patch; isn't it beautiful? My corn..."
He called it corn, yet it was in the shoot. By and by, that corn stalk grew till it become a tassel. The tassel is where the pollen comes, or the pollen falls from the tassel, which causes the breeding of the corn, the sex between the male and female. Now, what if the tassel should look back and say to the--the leaf, "Now, I have nothing to do with you. You are not even in the picture. I am a different thing. I am the tassel. I'm the one that's recognized; you have nothing to do to it."

L-13 But yet without the leaf, the corn cannot pollen. Because the tassel drops into the leaf, and there's where the ears spring from. And the same life that's in the--the leaf, is also in the tassel. By and by comes an ear. And the ear comes on, the grain. And then the grain says to the tassel, "I have nothing to do with you. You're not even in the picture."
But if it hadn't been for the tassel, there'd have been no grain. So the thing is, is the little stalk was the Lutheran revival. And the tassel was the Methodist revival. And the ear is this revival. But altogether the same spirit, the same life that was in the little stalk of corn to begin with, is the same life that is in the grain.

L-14 Now, the only thing that the Pentecostal, I mean the real Pentecostal, not the so-called, but the real Pentecostal message is nothing but a restoration of the same thing that went into the ground that's been packed through the Lutheran, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian. Now, it just comes to an ear.
And now, I... As bad as I hate to make this statement, there has been some fungus growing on it. And you farmers know what that is. It's something that imitates the ear. Now, that's what we're wanting to cut at tonight, because if you don't pull it off your corn it'll cause the whole patch to go bad.

L-15 So that is one thing I wish to make clear, that the people of all denominational churches, as they have come up through great times, it's been the maturing. And now the churches in the seed, and it's got to bring forth the same thing that went into the ground. So it's just a fully matured church that we're living in. And one part cannot say thus to the other part, for they lived good in their day. And they were the corn patch in God's sight. So we do not wish to belittle anyone.
But there has been some teachings today, especially on famous worldwide broadcasts, that has been belittling the Word of God, and saying that God dwells in a church and not the Word. I heard one of the famous teachers a few evenings ago, said, "Where did you get your Bible? I suppose that it was God taking a notion to write you a Bible up in heaven and give it to some little angels, and they come down through the corridors of heaven and presented it to you people." And said, "That no one could live the teaching of the Bible." And, "It wasn't exactly authentic."


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