<TITLE>10. Par 35-37</TITLE>L-35 Do you mean to tell me that the Church of the living God would be anything short of that? So you see, we went to looking to evidences instead of the mainspring. We went to looking what a nice case is on it, what a big church we got, how big the steeple is on top of it, how nice our people is dressed, how our pastor can stand and say, "aaaaamen," like a calf dying with the cramps. We have got all these things into our church and left off the mainspring.
"For though I speak with tongues as men and angels; though I have gifts till I can move mountains, though I understand all the words, though I have all knowledge, I am nothing."
Oh, I simply feel like... If I could only had the knowledge, or the something to express to you, my people. Oh, the people of our God, don't leave off the mainspring, no matter how pretty it looks, how much of a watch it looks like. If that mainspring isn't in there, it'll never keep time. Hallelujah. Glory.
We can call ourselves Foursquare, Assembly, Presbyterian, Baptist. We can call ourselves Pentecostal, whatever we want to, but as long as that mainspring, the Holy Ghost, isn't there ticking off love, joy, peace, goodness, longsuffering, we are just putting on a show.

L-36 No wonder we can't have real healing services. Where can God lead those sincere people upon a foundation? This is God's Foundation. No other foundation could be laid. We might think we're laying the foundation, but we find out the mainspring's gone.
The builders thought they could build the temple, and the little old funny mainspring that didn't seem to fit in anywhere, they kicked it out over into a weed pile, but they come to find out it was the chief cornerstone.
My brother, sister, we've had all kinds of sensations, all kinds of evidences, all kinds of everything else, but until we come back to the mainspring, our church is only just as dry as the rest of them. We've got to come back to where there's something in the member that gives him peace and joy, he's always on the mountain top shouting the praises of God.
Oh, my, I wish I could get you to see it. Then the yoke becomes easy. It doesn't chafe around the collar. It's lined with love. If it's only lined with emotion, it'll soon chaff around the collar.

L-37 You could come to church and shout, and dance, and whatever you want to. You can go to church and sing "Amen" and repeat the "Doxology," or what so-called the "Apostle's Creed"... The Apostle's Creed never was what they got wrote up, "I believe in the holy Roman Catholic church and communion of the saints." The Bible is against that. If the apostles had any creed, it's, "Repent, and be baptized, every one of you in the Name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." If they had any creed it would be something like that, not a communion of saints; that's condemned.
But you might be able to say all the catechism of your church, and be just as staunch Lutheran as you could be, or Catholic, or whatever you might be, or Methodist, those who have catechisms. To know the catechism is not life. To know the church is not life. To know the Bible is not life. But to know Him is Life, the Mainspring, spring...?...


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