<TITLE>08. Par 57-62</TITLE>L-57 Like in the Old Testament, God wanted to be King over Israel, before it became a church, and He was King. And although they had a prophet, Samuel, a good man, and when he had told them that if they wanted a king... But they wanted to be like the rest of the people; they wanted to be like the Philistines.
That's what's the matter with the Protestant people; they just won't let good enough alone. They just... When the Holy Ghost fell on them back yonder, forty years ago, and the power begin to pour out, and they begin to dance and shout and speak with tongues, they wouldn't leave it alone; they had to organize it. Then along came one and they called them a General Council. Along came another one with a little Light on the Name Jesus Christ, and they called them the "New Issues" and turned them out. Then they got them an organization called the P. A. of J. C., the Pentecostal Assemblies of Jesus Christ. A little friction come in between them, whether He's coming on a white horse or how He was coming, and they organized another one, called P. A. of W., Pentecostal Assemblies of the World. Oh, my, my. Then on come the Church of God. Then they broke off by prophecy, organized again. And every time you do it, you go out of the will of God. The antichrist spirit...

L-59 God's church is free. God's church is bound by no boundaries, because from sea to sea is God's; every human being under the earth belongs to Him. Whether he's been Catholic, Protestant, or whatever he is, God seeks those with an honest heart. And we're saved by faith, believing Him. That's the church. Now, you see, the church is not an organization.
And every time you see organization, just remember, "antichrist" is wrote over it. Here it is in the Bible. That's as plain as I know how to read It. I--I've got plenty of precious friends setting here that belongs to organizations; I don't say you're antichrist; I'm not calling you that; but behind the whole thing, and it looks like the devil has twisted it in such a way till you have to have something like that or they won't even let you preach. That's the same thing the nations has got. You can't be a man without a nation; you have to have a nation somewhere. You have to either be American, German, or something. See, it's all twisted around.

L-61 So really, a real borned again Christian is almost a wanderer; in the sight of the world he's a renegade. But in the sight of God he's precious. Wish we had time to go to Hebrews 11, and see how them faith warriors, how Abraham stepped out and called himself a pilgrim and a stranger, said this world was his home, but he was wandering about, seeking a city whose Builder and Maker was God. And if we, being dead in Christ, we take on Abraham's Seed and are heirs with him by the promise. And what does that make us? Pilgrims and wanderers.

L-62 When Israel come up out of Egypt. There was Moab, the great organized country. There was also Esau, the great organized country. And here was Israel, an undenominational, coming along: both of them, fundamentally, in the Word. Remember, Balaam offered the same sacrifice that Israel offered, seven altars. God's requirement. Seven clean sacrifices, seven rams speaking of the coming of the Just One. Fundamentally, they were both right, speaking fundamentally. But what Balaam failed to see, he failed to see that supernatural amongst Israel, that interdenominational group. No place to go, they were wandering, but they were on their road somewhere.
That's the way the church of the living God is today; it's unorganized, as far as the world's concerned. But it's bound together by not organization ties, but by the power and the Spirit of Jesus Christ, by the bonds of love.


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