<TITLE>08. Par 28-31</TITLE>L-28 Now the caterpillar begin to eat, or the locust, rather, and he broke up against unity. And they organized the first church. Luther organized the second, and on down through the age, and it's constantly one organization... And when you do, you tear down the very principles of brotherhood. Brethren, to my opinion, if we are mentally right, we don't... we speak God's Bible and look out upon the thing, and you see that it's that way. We are not divided; all one body, we. One in hope and doctrine, one in charity. What are we going to do about it? Here we are. Could we help it? No, sir. God said so; that's it.
They could not help doing it. I wonder when we stand before Jesus at that great day... And as the patriarchs stood before Joseph, and they condemning themselves, "We knew we did this. We should not have done this."...
And he said, "It was all for the good."
I wonder, really with all of our differences and other things, when we come that day and say, "Oh Lord, if I'd have knowed that I'd never done this."
But what if He'd just say, "Well, it was all for the good. It might preserve life in some way."

L-29 But to think that old locust, what it done... And then another thing that they had back in the Bible times, now, besides brotherhood, perfect brotherhood, perfect unity, they had a worship of one true God. And it's too bad that we got away from that.
Now, in the day of the early age, there come a time when they set up a pope and made him a god--give him a triple crown: the jurisdiction over heaven, purgatory, and hell. I've seen his crown. I looked at it myself. And they begin to come to a man worship. And they be... set up from the worship of the one true God to a false earthly god and got priests in there and called them "Fathers...?... Father." The Bible plainly told us; call no man, "father," but God, and to worship no man but God.

L-30 I wouldn't want to say that it was a grand privilege, but I was given the privilege to be interviewed by the Pope, when I was in Rome. And I have seen many diplomats, and great men, and kings, and potentates, monarchs, and have met them. And they told me different things I should do, and how I should address them, and when I went to them, "Your honor," and so forth, and--and "majesty," and so forth, I was to say. So I asked this person what I was to say at three o'clock the next afternoon when I was to meet the Pope of Rome, the head of the Catholic Church. And he said, "The first thing you must do, will be bow down on your knee, and kiss the ring, and call him, 'His Holiness.'"
I said, "Just take it off the list." I would not pay that respect to any earthly man...?... If he is a minister, or reverend, or elder, whatever he wishes to be called, all right, but never do worship to a man. That's right.

L-31 But they had the worship of one true God. In that little faction, they set up in the program (which many of you historians know), of making the trinity three different Gods. They had one God, the Father, with a long beard. I seen the pictures right at the Vatican. They had another one, God, the Son, with a younger man and a little bird flying around like a dove, calling the Holy Ghost.
Now, they lost sight there, of the true picture of the one true God. God is not three Gods. God is one God. God has three offices, the trinity, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, but it isn't three different Gods. If it is, we're pagan. But that never started in the early church; they knowed different from that. It started in the middle age, when the unity of brethren was broke up, and the love.


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