<TITLE>16. Par 98-105</TITLE>L-98 As we were speaking to pick up the little subject again just for--for a minute, how the illegitimate child could not enter the kingdom for fourteen generations, four hundred years, and how that the iniquity of the parents was visit to the children to the third and fourth generations. Also, the righteousness of the parents was visited.
What you do, if there is a coming tomorrow, and you have a great grandson, your action today will determine what he'll be then; for we read in the Bible where that Melchizedek, when He met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and Abraham the patriarch give Him a tenth, a tithings of all he had... And then he said that a tithing, that just only Levi could accept tithes. But he said Levi who received tithes paid tithes when he was yet in the loins of Abraham.
Oh, can you catch that? Abraham was Levi's great grandson, and here Levi at least eight or ten hundred years later maybe, several hundred, I wouldn't know just what many--I'd have to figure it up through the generations... But Abraham begot Isaac; Isaac begot Jacob; Jacob begot Levi, and here Levi... Jacob would be his father, Isaac his grandfather, and Abraham his great grandfather. And when Jacob was in the loins of Abraham, the Bible said he paid tithes to Melchizedek.

L-101 And then this young generation running around smoking, drinking, and everything, how do you expect another generation to exist? The reason we got sin, the juvenile delinquency now, the reason we got little girls on the street, and little boys is because their mothers and daddies did what they did in the bygone age. And the reason we still got preachers who will stand for truth, the reason we still got some old fashion girls is because they had old fashion parents back behind them. That's exactly right. We still got preachers that stands uncompromising with any denomination or the Word is because that we had old fashion preachers in the back stood right on the same grounds. Yes.

L-102 Now, we're in this day, and now we want to say that in here, back to the--some of the denominations, the reason we're not a denomination... And because if we were a denomination, we'd have to bow down to that.
And remember, you search the Scriptures wherever you please, and you'll not find one place in the Bible where anybody was ever baptized by sprinkling, by pouring, or in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. So if it's not in the Scripture, it had to start somewhere.

L-104 As I say, setting under a big tree looking at it--oh, it may be like a--a immaculate; it--it may be a gigantic; it may be powerful, but it had a beginning; it had to start. And everything, this old time religion that we so gallantly stand for, it had to start somewhere. It had to have a beginning. And the "isms" that we have, it had to have a beginning. And the false Scriptures that we're using in our denominations had to have a beginning. And if we say, "I'm a Methodist," you had to have a beginning. You can say, "I'm a Baptist"; you had to have a beginning. You say, "I'm Catholic"; you had to have a beginning. You say, "I'm a borned again Christian"; you had to have a beginning. You had to have it.

L-105 Go back, find out where it begin at. Let us go back to the beginning of the picture. Then if there is no denomination in the Bible, then denomination had to have a beginning. It started with the Catholic church. The Protestants just off-sprang from it.
Then if the Bible said that she was a ill-famed woman, because her doctrine... She committed spiritual fornications. What is fornications? Remember we went through it now. A woman living with her husband, she's the same as a virgin. She's never been defiled as long as she lives with that one man. But what is unrighteousness? Righteousness perverted. Let her live with another man, and she's doomed (See?): righteousness perverted.


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