<TITLE>04. Par 13-16</TITLE>L-13 Now, the Moffatt (I believe) translation is more ridiculous than the King James. It says, "In My Father's apartment house is many apartments," like you were going up there to rent an apartment. But if both of them is... Here's the original translation, "In My Father's kingdom is many palaces." That's the way it is in the original Hebrew. Now, but in King James' time they had it translated so the people would understand it.
Now, in the Old Testament they had the same kind of a setup. A father owned a great lot of ground, and it was called his house or his domain. And when all over the different parts of his country, he had little homes, little tenant houses we'd call them in the States. And his tenants lived in those houses. And now, when a baby was borned in this home to this wealthy father, well, the father being a business man and had to be about the business, he sought all over the country until he could find the very best tutor that he could to raise this son.

L-14 Now, if you will pardon the expression... And now, what you believe of this, you take. And what you don't believe, you just lay aside as I do when I'm eating cherry pie. If I run into a seed, I don't throw the pie away, I just throw the seed away and keep on eating pie. You do likewise.
Now, what God was fixing to show here on Mount Transfiguration, it was--He was fixing to do just like He had them do in the Old Testament: placing of a son.
Now, when a son was born into the family, he was a son at birth. And there's where you Pentecostal people jumped the fence. You thought that when you were born again that settled it. That only was the beginning. That's right. You are a son, surely, when you're born. But when this son was born, he wasn't heir of all things yet. He had to go through the testings and trials to find out if he was the right type of son to fall heir to all things. And listen, God's Word said, that every son that cometh to God must first be tried and chastened, child-trained, before he could be adopted into the family.

L-15 Now, this father taken the son and turned him over to a raiser, a tutor, school teacher, otherwise. And this school teacher had to bring word to the father just how that child was progressing, if he was slothful, or if he was dilatory, or if he was a bright, intelligent, wide awake, young man.
Now, the father had to find the man the right kind of a tutor. And that's a beautiful type of the church, that when we become sons of God, borned into the Kingdom of God, the Father sent to us the best Tutor that He could find--The Holy Spirit. Now, He never sent us an archbishop to be our tutor, or general overseer, or a district man. There's where we've made our mistake. The church is governed by the Holy Spirit. That's God's government for His church. But we've adopted other tutors, other raisers.

L-16 And then this tutor must be just, not pull any punches. He must bring the direct truth to the father. And how that tutor must blush when he comes up to the father in his face, and said, "Your son is not doing too good. He's failing in his studies; he's dilatory." How the tutor must feel to come before the father with such a message as that to--about his son.
And I often wonder how the Holy Spirit must feel in the Presence of God, bringing the conduct of our modern day church, with so much world in it, people so dilatory, those that He's been graceful to and given the new birth. Oh, it must be terrible. And to think, that in these last days, how corrupt our church is getting to be. On Wednesday night instead of going to the prayer meeting, they stay home to watch television.


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