<TITLE>09. Par 31-33</TITLE>L-31 Then the devil looked down, and said, "I've got a chance now; they've gone off without Him."
And if he can just get the Pentecostal church to start thinking more of their buildings and their well dressed congregations, then they do of an old fashioned prayer meeting and tarrying meeting, and the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and a godly life, and clean up their women and clean up their men, make them live holy and either toe the mark or get out, and not put so much on money, and more money, and raising... The first thing you know, you're going to find going off without Christ again.
Brother, sister, you remember this: THUS SAITH THE LORD (See?) the church better clean up! You're drifting too far out. Come back to the Lord; come back to real prayer meetings.

L-32 Little old Methodist preacher friend of mine I've brought up here, laid in that room the other night till three o'clock in the morning. My son went to see him; he was down on the river somewhere, praying. He had to get to work; his wife had done got the Holy Ghost. Last night he come through. He like to tore up the place, run out and got his brother and his sister-in-law, and they got the Holy Ghost. I'm telling you, the Methodists are going to get a shaking down in Kentucky in a few days. It's real, God's Holy Spirit. And It's for Methodists, for Baptists.
Let me tell you denominational people here, of Methodist, Presbyterian. When these people here call themselves Pentecost, that don't mean it's a organization. You can't organize Pentecost. You can have a denomination, but Pentecost is an experience for whosoever will let him come, whether he's Baptist, Presbyterian, Methodist, black, yellow, brown, or white. Don't make any difference what color he is, how big he is, how little he is, how low he is, how bad she is, doesn't make a bit of difference; it's for whosoever will. It's God's cleansing process for His Church. You don't have to be smart; you don't have to be educated.
There wasn't but one in His whole group ever had any education, and that was Paul. And Paul said he had to forget everything he knowed to find Christ. God's not known by intellectual powers; God's known by an experience through the Holy Ghost. Peter was a ignorant and unlearned man. But he had to forget all he ever knowed, Paul did, in order to find Jesus.

L-33 The devil looked down, and said, "I got them now." And he begin to blow his breath. And when he did, the sea looked like the bottom would come out of it. I imagine his devils setting on every wave said, "Oh, we got them now. We just got them in a sinking place."
And when Pentecostal people begin to act, and their churches begin to act the way you're doing, get in a little group of an organization, saying, "We're against that group": Church of God against the Assemblies; Assemblies against Church of God; Oneness against Twoness; Twoness against Threeness, and oh, that, all them different nonsenses. See?
Just the devil, "I've got them separated." That's all. "I've got them away from Him."
You did run well. What hindered you? What happened? Your women begin to cut their hair, use manicure all over their face, and--and wear all kinds... What did your men do? Begin to carry on like everything, telling jokes, and some of them very unclean. You begin taking deacons that had two or three wives, all these kind of things. What was it? You went off on a tantrum without Him. That's exactly right. You'd a kept Him in your midst and went on, but you had to have a little bigger group than the other one's got. God doesn't dwell in big groups; He dwells in humble hearts (certainly He does) of any kind of a group that'll receive Him. You got a better intellectual. Oh, we must...


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