<TITLE>09. Par 51-62</TITLE>L-51 That's the same thing the world's done to the church. "Now, where is your great power?"
"Well, if we'll organize, that'll break the power." The Catholic church done it.
"But the Philistines is on thee, Samson." And a Luther come out.
Then they organized again. "If you'll bind me with another cord, it'll hold me." So they did.
"And the Philistines on thee, Samson." What happened? Wesley came out and broke the cords.
"Now, you've deceived me all along. Don't you know I love you, Samson? All right, tell me the truth in your heart."
"All right, you bind me with another cord."
"All right, now we'll do that." What is that? That's the denominational cord.
"You let me be free, that I ain't got no denomination. Then I tell you, you'll have me broke." So out come the Pentecostals. Where's your power? "Philistines be upon thee." And he broke the cords again.

L-59 But now what happened? It's got the Pentecostals, the big Doctors of Divinity for their pastors, some great man. They've got just as much school and ritual as the Methodists or Baptists, or any of the rest of them's got. Go into a church and you can't hear an "amen," just as cold as a bunch of Eskimos right off the North Pole: cold, indifferent. "And now the Philistines is on thee, Samson."
The Philistines is on thee, America. Where is that oneness of spirit? Where is the oneness of Pentecost? The Assemblies of God, and the United, and the Church of God, and this, that, the other, each one with a different ism, this one with that, and this one with that. We're so broke up till you can go into a city to hold a revival, if one church sponsors it, the rest of them won't even attend. The Communists is upon thee, America.

L-61 Where is our power? Where's our glory? What is it? Because we went after a wisdom of men instead of the power of God. Why, they got... Our preachers and things is so stiff and starchy, till they've organized us till we're so starchy and stiff-necked, till people, you never hear a shout in the church any more. You never hear anybody cry. The mourner's bench is put in the basement. There's no more glory in the church. All we do is set back just as stiff as we can be. We're not free. We're bound. The devil, with his modernistic demons, has bound the church of the living God. That's right. There's no more power in the church. There's no more freedom. The people are so starchy and stiff. Why, the God can come into the midst of Pentecostal people, and show that He's God, and prove His signs of His resurrection; it don't even shake them. Glory. Why, it's a disgrace. I walk across the country, God working, performing signs, and people set, and, "Well, I guess that's all right. Oh, I know it can be done." It doesn't move them. Why? They're bound with Delilah, the world. They're in fetters.

L-62 Now, they've even got them into, bound them into a confederation. "The Philistines are on thee, Samson." What you going to do about it?
"Oh, we've got great denominations." Sure. "We have greater membership than we ever had." But where's the Spirit? Where's the Holy Ghost?
That's what the devil has done. It's wooed into the church. It kept wooing the church, "Come to me; I'll give you a great big tabernacle over here if you'll just do this. If you'll get rid of that fanatic preacher you got, and get a man, a Doctor of Divinity that's got some sense, we'll build a nice big classical church and we'll be like the rest of them." Shame on you. Rather have a man that didn't know split coffee from beans, but was filled with the Holy Ghost, that was uncompromised, by the power of God.


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