<TITLE>09. Par 26-30</TITLE>L-26 Now, if you'll notice, He said as it was in the days of Noah, in the days of Noah before the flood, how it would be. And God was not willing that any should perish, but that all might come to repentance. Then He suffered long. The flood stage was way past due.
Down in Egypt, it was way past due. Do you get it? In the antediluvian destruction now, way past due, the destruction and judgment, and coming out of Egypt, way past due, forty years overtime. But God was determined; God was determined that His Word would not return to Him. He was going to keep His Word. He has to keep His Word. He must do it in order to be God. If He has to make a--a change of everything, and by grace He will do it. That's the reason I say, if the church does not get herself ready, that's your duty to get ready, "The Bride has made herself ready." The garments is paid for. They are ready, but you must be ready to wear those garments. The Church has made herself ready.

L-27 Now, brethren, listen. If the church doesn't get ready, God's able of these stones to rise children unto Abraham. If this holiness people don't straighten themselves up and get back into the harness again, get back to the Gospel, God will raise up out of... He can bring Catholics up, Presbyterians, or whatever He wishes to. He will do it.
A few weeks ago, at Lima, Ohio, maybe some of you setting here now that was present, amongst the Presbyterian, Baptists, and Methodists, they streamed to the altar. They received and responded to the Gospel, much better--much better than many times the holiness people does. We've just got it on our minds that we're called by His holy Name, and let it go like that. It means more than to be called by His Name. It means to live for Him, Who died for you. It's a life, a consecrated life to God. Oh, how we need back to the Bible.

L-28 Here a few nights ago, I was saying to the Lutherans, for at the meeting up there now, they... just said, "Give us five more colleges like this of those Lutherans, that rece..." Seventy-one of them received the Holy Ghost that day at the college when I was there. Said, "Give us five more schools like that, and the Lord tarry ten years, we'll have the entire Lutheran church filled with the Holy Ghost." Oh, my.
Sure, God is able of these stones... He's going to have a Church presented without spot, or wrinkle, or a blemish. His Grace is all sufficient. And He can do the exceeding abundantly.

L-29 And I said here not long ago, the Lutherans did have the torch light to the world. What happened? If you would run out in the world, you Lutheran people at one time at the first reformation, what happened to your light? What did it go out? This is the reason it went out, is because, you left God's Word. You believed that the just should live by faith, which is absolutely the truth; but there's more than that, the just shall live by faith.
Then along come the Methodist, they... You Methodist people, you picked up the torch light of sanctification, and you did hold the torch light for a great revival. That's all true, but what happened? What happened to the Methodist church? Is because you let the light go out; that's what happened. And you preached sanctification, the second definite work of grace, which is positive, the truth of the Bible, but you just let it go at that.

L-30 And then along came the Pentecostals with the restoration of the gifts. And you spoke with tongues, and then you made a doctrine out of that. And then what happened? Your light's gone out. What's the matter, is because you failed to stay with the Word.
God's Words were unfolding, and we must unfold as God's Word unfolds, as time unfolds, signs unfolds. And if the natural world... This man is the same man he was six thousand years ago when God made him. He's the same intellectual; he's the same intelligence; he's just the same man with the same five senses, that he was thousands of years ago; but look what progress he's made in the past fifty years.


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