<TITLE>09. Par 30-33</TITLE>L-30 We can't do it through denominations. We can't do it under psychology. We can't do it under arithmetic, or we can't do it with education. We separate ourselves, divide ourselves. We are not divided. We are one person indeed in Christ Jesus. We are all one in Christ, and our denominations will never do it. As good as they are, they won't do it. Our education's the greatest hindrance the Gospel ever had, is education.
What we need is not education. We need the power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost back in the church to demonstrate the power. Jesus never said, "Go into all the world and--and teach." He never said, "Go into all the world and do..." He said, "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel." And the Gospel is to demonstrate the power of the Holy Ghost, the resurrection. We're still a million miles short than where we should be. Let us move forward. Let's go back where we left Him at the feast of Pentecost.

L-31 Jesus said, in John, I believe, the 15th chapter, He said, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." Well now, if that Vine put forth the first branch, and out of that branch wrote a book of Acts, the second branch will make another book of Acts. The third branch will make another book of Acts. And every branch that comes out of that Vine will be the same as the first branch was.
Now, you can graft, we know that. I've seen a citrus tree with about eight different kinds of fruit on it. I've seen a orange tree putting grapefruits, and lemons, and everything else on it, but they were drafted in.
That's what's the matter today. We've drafted in our ideas, drafted in our denominations, but if that tree ever puts forth another fruit vine, itself, it'll be like the original ones that went into it. Hallelujah. Oh, church will blend together, but we need the power of the original. We need the Holy Ghost, the power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. That's what He told us to do.

L-32 "I am the Vine, ye are the branches." If a grape vine puts forth a shoot, and it comes out with pretty blue grapes, the next vine it brings out will have pretty blue grapes on it. If the first Vine come out, and they fell under the impact of the Holy Spirit, and they did great miracles, and signs, and sealed their testimony to a world... Even many of them with their own testimony they--with their blood they sealed their testimony. They went through all kinds of perils and everything to bring the Gospel. They suffered; they were beaten; they were punished. "Must we be carried home to heaven on a flowery bed of ease, while others fought to win the prize, and sailed through bloody seas?" What do we expect to do? "I must fight if I must reign. Increase my courage, Lord." Certainly. We need a...
We don't need a new denomination. We don't need a new church building. What we need today is an old-time backwoods, sky blue, sin killing Pentecostal revival, that was borned at Pentecost and is back into the church again, the power of the Holy Ghost again, to bring Jesus on the scene.

L-33 The God of history always rises on the scene in a crucial moment. We need it. That's what's the matter with the church today. We're getting too far back. We're falling into the fashions of the world. And gradually, year by year, it begins to die a little and wither away.
It's pruning time pretty soon. God will cut it back as sure as I'm standing in this pulpit. God will cut her back to make her bear fruit. He will cut the works of the world out of it one of these days. Such a disgrace, the way the church has carried on under the name of religion.
And we find out, when Jesus left, death set in. When Jesus leaves our church, the power of the Holy Spirit leaves our church, it begins to dwindle and--and die. And after while there's nothing no more to it. Now, when Jesus left, death set in. Oh, what a sad time it was.


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