<TITLE>10. Par 23-25</TITLE>L-23 How do you get into Christ? By one Spirit we are all baptized into one body by the Holy Ghost. There's the secret. The devil's got ahold of it. He knows just how to come in and rob you--rob it out of you--to organize. You, say, "Well, we're different from that group; we got a better set of preachers." You little seminary, vitamin fed, seminary born rooster, do you only know you're heading for the frying pan? What in the world are you crowing about? See? What you need today, is the good old fashion baptism of the Holy Ghost to preach the people Eternal Life in Christ, for He lives just the same today as He was then. What good does the pretty feathers and the intellectuals, getting them little pullets all dressed out here and things like that, do you realize you're heading for the pan? What good does it do you? What's all your intellectuals going to amount to?
What we need today, is get away from that kind of stuff and back to the Holy Ghost; back to the power of God; back to the old fashion meeting; back to the all night prayer meetings, and praying, and staying until we're dead to self. That's what we need.
Delilah, the world, has found the secret of the Pentecostal church: "If I can only get her classy, and give her great big churches, and give her fine cultured preachers, it won't be long, till I'll have her all bound up." And just about got it too. That's right. He's done it.

L-24 Oh, my, Israel, when they got settled down... When they was on the move, all right. It was all right as long as they were moving, but when they got to Palestine and got settled down, then they began to act--want to act like the Philistines and the Gentile world. They wanted a king. And when they accepted Saul as their king, they denied God as their King. And when we accept denominational barriers, and handshakes, and--and classical things instead of the Holy Ghost, well then we're denying God our King.
What happened? It finally led them to an Ahab, to a total backsliding, and they failed to recognize their real King when He come. And that's the thing the churches has done today. They've accepted all this other philosophy, and doctrine, and psychology, and--and all these different things, and instead of receiving the Holy Ghost. And now the King is in the midst of the church and they don't know it. They rejected It, just exactly the way they rejected Jesus there, so is the church rejecting Him today. Why? Because they accepted an earthly king.

L-25 You're accepting preachers with educations instead of men who knows God to pastor the churches. I'd rather have my family go to hear a preacher that didn't know his ABC's, if he knowed Christ, than to have them with all their education. They go to school to get that. But the church is not in an educational program; it's for the power and demonstrations of the Holy Ghost. That's what the church needs tonight. That's right. Get away from those things.
But, oh, Delilah, the first thing you know... Samson oughtn't to have made his first stop. When Delilah flirted her eyes at him, he ought to have turned his head and walked on. Eve stopped just for a moment and she got in trouble. Samson stopped for a moment and got in trouble. And when the world presents something to the church or individual, don't stop; keep moving on. That's what the church needs tonight, is don't stop for these intellectual, classical prides, is keep moving on in the Holy Ghost. Just keep pressing on, going on...?...


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