<TITLE>07. Par 23-27</TITLE>L-23 But brother, remember, the ripeness in the grain come out of the leaf also in the tassel. It's nothing but a corn, further matured. So don't laugh at the Lutheran and the Baptists, Methodists. Remember, it's a further maturing of the ear.
But now the thing about this, we've had that in our minds so long, until it has created another thing. And we've got fungus growing out all over the ear. You know what fungus is? What it... You know what fungus is and what brings it. You see? It's something wrong, something wrong with the tree that has fungus on it. It's got a disease.
And Pentecost has got a disease. It's got a lot of fungus growing on it. That's right. In the--in all of our churches--got fungus growing on it. We've let the old palmerworm come along with his stinger and break down brotherhood, break down unity among us. Paul said in the Bible that he wanted us to all speak the same thing. He wanted us all to be in unity.

L-24 I got a little note wrote out--wrote out here I was going to read on it. All the operation of the gifts and so forth... And in unity they stood as one great big union church. But we find out that that church stayed that way, with brotherhood, and they loved not their lives unto death. They went down in martyrdom. Many of you man here who is scholars, you've read of the... well, the early ages of the church, and books like Foxe "Book of Martyrs," and so forth, and many other church--church histories. And how that they stuck together; nothing could separate them.

L-25 Then during the dark age, they come forth with an organization. They come forth with a man-made policy. The locusts begin to fly then. The same devil that broke up brotherhood is trying to break the unity of man. And they made their first organization, and that was the Catholic church. God's church never was organized until Catholicism. And then it was a forcing, that you had to do it or they pulled them apart with ox, they burned them, they fed them to lions, they done everything. And they forced in a false unity. The locusts begin to sting. And it's too bad... After the caterpillar had got into the Pentecostal church and broke up the brotherhood, then the locust comes around after that, and begins to stinger it to organize different little groups to break up our unity. That's one of the destroyers.

L-26 If the old general council, when the Pentecostal move was first brought in, issued in by speaking with tongues (the bottom of the gifts, bringing it up), if they would've just stayed put and would've never organized, and just let it be a Pentecostal fellowship, in the stead of any organization, we'd have been a million times better off, brethren. And let it stay an experience and not a denomination...

L-27 Now remember, I'm stating myself; I'm not against the denominations. It has to be that way or God's Word wouldn't have said it would be that way. If these caterpillars and bugs are going to eat the church, they're going to eat it. That's right. God said so. That's just as plain as He said He'd pour out His Spirit. What God says for one thing, whether it's good or evil, it's going to be just that way. But I'm just--I'm just bringing out something to your ears so you can see.


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