<TITLE>15. Par 58-61</TITLE>L-58 Our gifts are all right. Our denominations is all right; nothing against them. But we're centering our whole hopes on our denomination. You're centering your whole hopes on gifts. As Jesus said, "Many will come to Me that day and say, 'Lord, haven't I prophesied in Your Name, cast out devils in Your Name, done great works?'"
He said, "I'll say, 'depart from Me, you workers of iniquity. I never even knew you.'"
Paul said, "Though I speak with tongues like men and angels and have not love, I'm nothing." Though I understand the Bible, I got a Ph.D.D., double L.D., I understand all the mysteries of God, and if it isn't stuck in that hub down there of love, the thing won't keep time. It...?... See? It just won't do it.

L-59 So, doctor, I have nothing... I wish I had a doctor's degree. Somebody wanted to give me one the other day. I said, "I'm too smart for that." Yes, sir. I said, "I'm just--I'm growing too smart to be a doctor." I said, "My old Kentucky, sassafras, southern-talking of 'his, hain'ts, totes, fetch, tarry,' like that..." People's too intelligent. I wouldn't be a hypocrite. If I had one, I'd be glad, but not take one on them terms. I'd rather be what I am and serve the Lord, sure, certainly, and be honest with people and with God. If you won't be honest with the people, you won't be honest with God.

L-60 We need the love of God. That controls the whole thing. Now, your watch is all right; your mains and your organ springs is all right. Your little second-hands is all right; all your little gifts and everything is all right. But, brother, let's get the Mainspring back in it. Oh, my. That's what makes every little thing...
Now, watch, the Mainspring works when the--when love goes to work. You know what happens? The Methodists said, "Come on, Baptists, let's rock together." All right. "Come on Presbyterians, you Pentecostals, let's all join together and have a real city-wide revival." There you are. Then the Spring's beginning to control. The Holy Spirit's begin moving. Then the Baptists won't fuss at you for speaking in tongues, and neither will you get out of order with it. And the Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran, all together, will all operate in one great big unit of the church of the living God. And she'll keep exactly time with the Bible. Absolutely.
Oh, the signs of the time. We're living in the last day. She's got to keep time with this Bible. This is... And you know every once in a while, if that talk happens to be getting just a little bit dry, God will give you a drop of oil from heaven. And He will just oil it all up, and she'll run just fine after that. Yes, sir. If you'll do it.

L-61 Now, notice. A new heart, a new spirit, and then I'll put My Spirit within you. Now, and you'll keep all my statutes and all my judgments. When that mainspring begins to tick, when the Stone that's rejected, when the love of God is brought back amongst the people of God, then you're going to see the church of God all fellowshipping with one another without any friction at all.
Now, you remember when the servants in the Bible, they said, "Our Lord delays his coming." They begin to devour one another and bite and fuss and stew. And the Lord come and caught them that way. They had lamps but no oil in them. See? And when they did, they were cast out into outer darkness.
Brother, why take a substitute, when the genuine's here at hand? Why would you take something different when the real thing is here at hand?
Then when you get that Mainspring working within you, Christ, the love of God, in your heart, working within you, then it will begin to express these kind of a tick: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, goodness, gentleness, patience, faith, mercy. Oh, my. It'll just tick right with those.


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