<TITLE>10. Par 40-44</TITLE>L-40 Just church denomination don't satisfy me. If the Scriptures says one thing, and the church teaches another, that don't work. If Jesus Christ lived in the apostles, and done the signs that He was here on earth, it'll do it again if we'll get zeroed in. We got to get zeroed. I don't care what the church says it'll group this or that and oh, Father, Son, Holy Ghost and all this other kind of stuff and all these creeds and things. One way or the other is all right." It ain't all right with me.
If the apostles hit the dot, we can hit the dot too if we'll get zeroed with God's Word. Let our experience zero with His Word. They did it. If they did it, why can't we do it? If we'll zero in, it'll do the same thing.
Oh, the church says, "As long as it's hitting, as long as you join church. Shake hands with the pastor, and put your name on the book, and say this creed, this apostles' creed, so what difference does it make?" It makes a lot of difference.

L-41 The Holy Spirit zeroes you in to God's Word. Jesus... They expected Him to be with His kindred. That's the way we've expected. "Oh, He's with--He was with Martin Luther. He was with John Wesley, John Smith, Calvin, and Alexander Campbell, or some of them. He was with them." That won't work. Is He with us?
So they started looking around one day. You know where they found Him? Not with their kindred, not with their organization, not with their denomination, with those that they expected Him to be. That's what we been doing.

L-42 We've been trying to have a revival. Billy Graham has crossed the country. Jack Shuler, oh, many others tried to have a revival. What are they doing it? Upon intellectuals, bringing all the Baptists together, all the Methodists together, Presbyterians together, putting them together, bringing the organizations, making the leaders, giving them talks and spurring them up and so forth like that to shake hands, be all right. That's--that's good.
Like the colored man eating watermelon, he eat a slice of it. Say, "How was that, boy?"
Say, "That's good but some more of it."

L-43 That's the way it is today. To get together and shake hands is fine, but there's some more of it. Amen. There's more of it than that. No matter how much intellectuals we get together, how we do, the life isn't there. We've got to go back where we left Christ.
Martha--or Mary and--and Joseph went back to where they left Him. Where did they leave Him? At the Feast of Pentecost, not at the Lutheran church, not at the Methodist church, not at the foundation in--in England, not Calvin, Knox, Finney. Them men were fine. We never left the... beginning of our organizations. We left Him at the Feast of Pentecost. There's where the church has got to come again. That's where you'll find Him, not in your church, not in your organization, not with your mother's religion, your daddy's religion; you'll find Him at the Feast of Pentecost.

L-44 I know you think I'm crazy. Maybe I act that way, but I feel different. Look, brother. Back to Pentecost. We've long gone too far now. We've took Pentecost and organized it, and organized it, and organized it, and organized it, made this denomination, split hairs on this, that and the other. Joining hands is all right. That ain't enough. Let's get back to the original. Get back to the beginning. Get back where we left it. Amen. Hear me. I speak in the Name of the Lord: Back to the beginning.
"You say I'm a Methodist."
"It wasn't so at the beginning."
"I was sprinkled."
"It wasn't so at the beginning."
"I'm a Baptist."
"It wasn't so at the beginning."
"I'm Presbyterian."
"It wasn't so at the beginning."


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