<TITLE>05. Par 19-21</TITLE>L-19 God has a program, and that program is written in His Word; and His Word said we should be one, all together, not a divided, divisions, and fusses, and stews, but we should be one. Christ prayed that we would be one, and He said, "This will all men know you are My disciples when you have love one for the other."
How can gifts and signs work in a church? How can God perfect His Church when there is so much division among us? How can, when one says this, and one says that, and one says something else, and all contrary one to the other... There is one supreme Judge, that's God's eternal everlasting Word. And God keeps His Word. So quicker we can line up with that word, better off we'll be. God keeps His Word.

L-20 Now, if you notice what caused this trouble, there was a mixed multitude went up with them. The supernatural had been done down in Egypt. And when the supernatural had been done, everybody flocked to it; and it caused a mixed multitude to go with them, unregenerated, unconverted hearts going up, trying to impersonate the real believer. And it's then that in the days of Noah, it was in that in the days of Christ; it's prophesied in God's Word for to be the same thing in this day. The supernatural has been done. And there's a mixed multitude gone up unregenerated, hearts not conditioned, not keeping God's Word, but impersonating something.
What happened to you Lutheran? Many years ago at the first reformation you held the torchlight of freedom in your hands. You were God's light, what happened to you? Because you read in the Bible, "The just shall live by faith," and you organized yourself around that one Scripture and become a bunch of isolationists, and God took the torchlight out of your hand. That's true, the just shall live by faith--by faith, but there's more Scriptures than that.

L-21 What happened to you Methodists? In the days of John Wesley who had the great revival that saved England, when Wesley and Asbury and many of them were over here in one of the greatest revivals that this nation ever knew, you held the torchlight in your hand. But after the going of John Wesley, what taken place? You've got a bunch of seminary students in there that organized a great group and you set your doctrine upon sanctification, and denying it now, and God took the torchlight out of your hand. Right.
And some little one-eyed Negro man down yonder in California, received the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and God stuck the torchlight in the hands of Pentecost. But what happened? You held the torchlight in your hand, but the first thing you know, you went and made a little issue just like the rest of them did, and settled down; and God's took the torchlight out of your hand. You started breaking up. First thing that God did was restore the gifts. He started on speaking in tongues, and you did speak with tongues. Then you made it a doctrine, initial evidence, no one could get the Holy Ghost without speaking in tongues, and all that spoke with tongues got the Holy Ghost. That's all right, but you made it a doctrine, and God took the thing out of your hand.


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