<TITLE>09. Par 31-33</TITLE>L-31 Now, you can't stand neutral. You just can't do it. When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walks in dry places.
The man goes down and gets saved. He's taken back to a church. Well, now to be sure that he doesn't get straying away under some other church, they indoctrinate him. "Now, if you're going to be in this church, you've got to follow our creeds. You've got to keep all this other stuff out of your mind." Don't tell me. I know.
"You got to follow our denomination. You must be baptized by, pour a little water on top your head or--or some way." Some of them baptize three times, face forward, sometimes three times backward. What difference does it make anyhow? But you fall out and fuss about it. Shows it's man-made. It's got to fall. For every plant that my heavenly Father hasn't planted, will be rooted up. It's got to be.
"But upon this rock..." What rock? The spiritual revelation of Jesus Christ. "Upon this rock I'll build My church, and the gates of hell can't prevail against it."

L-32 The Catholics says it was Peter. The Protestants says it was Christ. But Jesus said, "Upon the... Flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father which is in heaven has revealed this to you..." a spiritual revelation of the Lord Jesus, "Upon this rock I'll build My church."
Not because some man told you. "Flesh and blood has not revealed it to you." Not because you learned it in a communion, not because you learnt it eating kosher bread, not because you learned it in a bunch of creeds, but because the Holy Ghost has revealed it to you. "Upon this rock I'll build My church, and all the gates of hell can't prevail against it." Showed they would be against it, but they'll never prevail.
Now, as we go on... The unclean spirit, then what does he do? He goes over and he gets into this person and he begins to tell him this. And you know what he does? It's just like what Jesus said, "You compass the seas to make one proselyte." And what is he when you get through with him? A more twofold child of hell than he was to start with. You can deal better with a street harlot. You can deal better with a prostitute on the street or a drunkard in some dive, than you can with some of these old moss-backed, so-called Christians. That's exactly right.

L-33 They set down there and blow up like a toad frog eating buckshot, and just carry on awful when they know no more about God than a Hottentot knows about Egyptian knights. You know that's the truth. Go down and see the glory of God and somebody get healed and say, "It's psychology." How can you believe when you've got nothing to believe with? If God's on your heart's throne, I tell you He will agree with every word. Knowledge will say, "It can't be done." Science says, "It can't be done."
"God so loved the world, He give His only begotten Son."
Unbelievers say, "I doubt that."
God says, "Amen."
The Bible said, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever."
The Holy Spirit say, "Amen."
The church creed will say, "I... Well, He is in so much He is." "I'm the Lord heals all thy diseases."
"Well, He used to."
But the Holy Spirit on the heart will say "Amen" to every word of God, 'cause He wrote it. He is the Writer; He's the Author.
But the unbelieving, scientific, polished scholar with D.D.D., Ph.D., double L.D. all that kind of nonsense, they'll disagree with it because they don't know no different.
Like the old colored man was down in the south, he kept singing. And his boss said, "Sambo," said, "what makes you so happy?"
He said, "I got heartfelt religion."
Oh, he said, "There is no such a thing as heartfelt religion."
He said, "Boss, you made one mistake."
Said, "What was that?"
"You should've said there's no such a thing as heartfelt religion as far as you know." But he knowed different.


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