<TITLE>14. Par 118-123</TITLE>L-118 Show me one time that God ever had a organization or a denomination, and ever did have His Church in a denomination, or ever a denomination that ever raised that didn't fall and never rise again. Now, I've been reading since I come from up there, on this very subject. I've read the Foxe's "Book Of The Martyrs." I've read Josephus' early writings. I read Hislop's "Two Babylons." I've read the "Early Ages" by Pember. I... Oh, and the Nicene Fathers, and just before the Nicene Council, after Pentecost. And there has never been a denomination that God ever ordained in the Bible. Then when we ordain and make denominations, we got out of the will of God.

L-119 A cankerworm called denomination, eat off the original bark of brotherly love, and denominates it, by carrying a rag around it. And the Life of God comes right up through the roots here, the Root and the Offspring of David, when It begins to come up through the Holy Spirit, then the denomination said, "The days of miracles is passed. You don't have to speak with tongues today. There's no such a thing as the baptism of the Holy Ghost. There's no Divine healing. That was for a age gone; it's gone long ago." And here's the branches up here is suffering, the fruits...

L-120 A good, healthy tree don't have to be sprayed. Why we spraying over and over and over for contamination of worms? Why we doing it for? Is because the tree's not healthy. What's the matter it's not healthy? Creeds and denominations has eat the Lifeline out of it. Absolutely. Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecostals, eat the Lifeline out of the tree, trying to substitute a denomination, to bring all men under politics. God don't want us joined together under politics and creeds. We are joined together by the Holy Spirit, God's original, tears out the sin of our heart, and makes us all one in Christ Jesus. That's true, my brother. That's true, my sister.

L-121 That started in the early ages after the death of Christ, and the resurrection, after the death of the apostles: three hundred years later, they brought the Nicene Council in. That's when they formed the first organization, which was the Catholic church. Means... "Catholic" means "universal." From the Catholic church come out Luther; from Luther, come out Wesley; from Wesley, come out Pentecost. All down, the little--little bypasses around, the other little ones like, oh, Nazarene, Pilgrim Holiness, and so forth, Baptist, and a--all of that. They all come out of that, all right in the same cahoots: denomination. When God gives a church a blessing, or a group of people, quickly they draw a little fence around it, and here's where they take their stand. God wants to tear down every fence.

L-122 I remember when I first went west; it was the times of discing up, Kansas, and we was putting wheat in there. I'd see them old cowboys that never knowed nothing about a tractor or--or anything, or raising any wheat; all they know was herding cattle. And we went to bringing in automobiles, and putting golf courses, and wearing these little old knee pants they used to wear to play golf in, all that stuff like that. I'd see them old men with the long white hair hanging under their hat, see them bring in binders and wheat grower, and stuff like that (stick his foot in the saddle and pull his hat down), put fences around the place. He couldn't stand that; he knowed nothing about being fenced in. He was on the range by God and himself. The gray hairs hanging under his hat like that; crying, tears, just pull it down, say, "I can't stand these things." Ride on towards the setting of the sun.

L-123 God help us today to have pilgrims that won't stand to be fenced in by denomination and creed, and ride towards the setting of the sun, with a faith that's unmovable, that was once given to the saints, with a brotherly love that breaks all creeds and fences down, and say, "We are brethren. We are one in Christ Jesus. Whatever God says, we say 'amen' behind it." Give us that type of men.


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