<TITLE>18. Par 113-118</TITLE>L-113 All in the little textbooks, man-made theories, they put them down; "That's what we believe." And that's the reason we stay away from it. We have no textbook but the Bible, no leading, no bishop but the Spirit. That's right. And then, if there's a wrong spirit that comes in will try to twist something in there, the Word will untwist it. That's wrong; stay away from it. See? Here come the Spirit along and say, "That's wrong," bears record... For our spirit bears record with His Spirit. Here will come one along saying, "Oh, we should... Well, I think it's all right for them to do this, that, and the other."
But the Spirit said, "There's something wrong with that, goes right back in the Bible and brings her right down the way we do. And it's wrong, stay away from it. That's the reason the Bible said, "Here's to him that has wisdom; here's to he that has knowledge; here's to him that has this," the church there setting in order. Don't you see the great plan of God?

L-115 Now look, the Philadelphian church age was the Methodist church age, the church age of brotherly love, the reformation, which when rank Calvinism had sprung up in the Anglican church in England, where they didn't even have no revival no more, went plumb off into hay seed... God raised up John Wesley as a legalist to take the Arminian doctrine. And when he did, he knocked that thing in the head, and it deserved to be. But what did he do? Here come the Methodists along and run just as far that way as he--the Calvinists did this a-way. Now, in between there's still Methodist, still Baptist, wish we could get over here now in the Scriptures. Take Revelations 3 and you'll get it.

L-116 Now, just before the last church age which was Pentecostal, is the lukewarm, Laodicean church age which is rejected... But remember, as Jesus was seen in the cross standing in the seven golden candlesticks, the darkest was what was the fartherest away from Him, His right hand and His left hand. And He was to look upon as Alpha and Omega, not the in-between, the--the Alpha and Omega, as He had His hand stretched. And He was jasper and sardius stone, which was Benjamin and Reuben, the first and the last. There He had His hands stretched; there He stood.

L-117 But remember, at the going out of this... Don't confuse it, for when they received these names here of these denominations, they would die right in them same things, right on down. But He said, just between the Methodist and Pentecostals going out, "I have set a open door before you." There you are, the Name restored again. "I have set an open door, but I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No man cometh to the Father except through Me." What is it? That open door.

L-118 Strait, strait, if you noticed it ain't s-t-r-a-i-g-h-t; it's s-t-r-a-i-t. Strait is the way. Strait is water. How? Back to the Name of Jesus which...?... you have. "You haven't... Got a little life, you haven't denied My Name." That in here they lost and went into a Catholic denomination, come out in a Lutheran denomination, come out in a Wesleyan denomination, then they're going right into the Pentecostal then. But just before the end time, the Seed's almost gone from the earth, it's weighted out, the seed of the righteous. The seed of the serpent is accumulating faster and faster and faster, getting ready for this atomic age to be destroyed. "But just before that time, I'll send a way of escape. I've set before you an open door. Strait is this gate and narrow is this way, and it'll be just a few of them that'll find it, for broad is the way that leads to destruction and many will be will go in thereat." There you are. Just before this, this great Light was supposed to spring forth.
I'm so glad. I just don't know how to express it I'm so glad. Here it is time to close, and I've never touched the subject.


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