<TITLE>07. Par 27-31</TITLE>L-27 Jesus found teachers in His days also perverting things, and He told them that in the tr--in the beginning we find the same thing today. They say, "Oh, yes, the Bible does say Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, but we don't believe He still performs miracles. We believe that Jesus said, 'The works that I do shall you do also,' but we--we believe that those things ceased with the apostles." See what you're doing. You're hybriding it. You're perverting it, saying something that God did not say.
The Bible says, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." I believe that to be the truth. I don't believe we should mess with that a bit. Just say it's there. If you haven't got faith to go on with it, don't stop somebody else that does have faith to go.

L-28 I've always said I wished I had faith to walk like Enoch home with God without death, but if I haven't got that kind of faith, I certainly don't want to stand in somebody's way that does have that faith to walk. I'll let him walk on. Sure, and I'll pray that God will give me grace and power to walk on. Sure.
Jesus found the church when He came trusting the church for salvation. That's the same thing He--He does today when He's come in the form of the Holy Ghost in this last days. He finds the people trusting the church for salvation. What did the people get in the days of Jesus when they come trusting the church for salvation? They got a bunch of creeds, man-made dogma, perverting the Word of God back to a creed.

L-29 That's the same thing we got today. When the Holy Spirit's here, the Person of the Holy Spirit, hunting out, searching out the Bride of Christ, what do we get? What does He find? People accepting creeds for salvation instead of going back to the original for it. You got a--a prayer book, or some kind of a textbook of some sort that "we so-and-so believes this so-and- so."
Why do you take a textbook for it? God's Bible is the Textbook. Go back to the beginning. You adopt a handshake instead of the baptism. You adopt sprinkling instead of water baptism. You adopt forms and creeds and so forth instead of taking the formula the way God wrote it. That's the reason we got a dead, hybrid church today, because it can't produce any more. A Lutheran can make a Lutheran. A Baptist can make a Baptist. A Presbyterian can make a Presbyterian, but God makes a saint when He comes in, the original Holy Ghost, Pentecostal blessing.

L-30 They were expecting the church to give them salvation. Then they find out they didn't even know the very root of their salvation when He come, because they were hybrid. They looked at Him like a bunch of mules. "Huh, who are you? Illegitimate born," like an old braying donkey somewhere, you know. Out there, "Days of miracles is past. Moses done so and so but who's this guy? He don't belong to any of our organizations. Aw, it's telepathy. That's all. He is Beelzebub, the devil."
That same thing has happened again. They don't know Christ in the power of His resurrection. They know Him by a creed but not in the power of His resurrection. Christ lives in the person, and if He'd come today and we'd heard people say the things they do, Jesus would simply say, "It wasn't so from the beginning."
Why, he'd say, "Lord, I was sprinkled in the holy so-and-so church."
He'd say, "It wasn't so from the beginning."
"Well, I shook hands with the preacher and made a profession."
"It wasn't so at the beginning."

L-31 They waited at the beginning until the power had come from on high, a rushing, mighty wind that changed the whole course of their life, and set them afire with Something that evangelized the world.
How can we do it through reading, writing, and arithmetic? Jesus said, "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel," not teach reading, writing and arithmetic. "Preach the Gospel." What is the Gospel? The Gospel is power and demonstrations of the Holy Ghost. Follow the next words, "And these signs shall follow them that believe."


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