<TITLE>19. Par 147-154</TITLE>L-147 "Remember and repent, or I will remove the Light of the star out of his place." What's his place? In the church. "But if you don't repent and go back to where you was at the first place, I'll take your pastor right away from you and move him out of his place; I'll put him somewhere else where his--where I'll reflect My Light that'll shine." Um. Wasn't that solemn?
It's time for the churches to repent. It's time for Pentecost to get a lot of the little polished scholars out of the pulpits, and get the old fashion preacher in there that'll tell you the truth, not pat around and use the church for a meal ticket, big wages, and something like that, and psychology, and a few horse races, and soup suppers, and everything else. It's time to get back to the Gospel. I don't care how little you are, "Where two or three are gathered, I--I'll be in their midst."
"Repent, unless I come and remove the candlestick; send him away, else to shine his light."

L-150 Now, the 6th verse. Now, here's the one we're going to have trouble with. Now, except you repent, He'll come and move the pastor away.
But this thou has,...
Now, remember. Oh, don't miss this now. This is going to lock the rest of it together plumb on down to this age we're in now. Everybody feeling good, first? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Are you in a hurry? [Congregation says, "No."--Ed.] All right, now. All right, bear just a little bit then. [A brother in congregation says, "Stay all night."--Ed.] Now... Thank you.
But this thou has,... (They had something then, didn't they? Now, what did they have?)... that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitanes, which I also hate.
"You hate those deeds of the Nicolaitanes." Setting in the study today up there, I wrote something here on that; I want you to listen closely now in a couple pages here. The 6th verse, praises and agreed; that's God and the church agreed upon one thing, that they hated the deeds of the Nicolaitanes. The true vine, the true vine, the true church that was in this Ephesian church...

L-153 Now, remember, each church has its formals and each church has its spirituals. That's the twins that's born in every revival and lives in every church. They started it right in this age and it ends up in this age. And finally, the formals took it over in the Thyatira age, and Luther pulled it back out again. And now it's swinging right back in again. Can you see that formal religion? There's no difference between that and Catholicism. It's all the same thing. Every organization's butchered right into it. God never did organize His church. That's exactly what they was trying to do here. And you watch and see now if that isn't right, just show you how cursed an organization is. It was--it was foreign to the new church, the New Testament church. See?

L-154 But... thou... But this thou has, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitanes, which I also hate.
The true vine hated the formal deeds of the Nicolaitanes; so did God. What was deeds in the Ephesian church, in the church of Ephesians, became a doctrine in the Pergamos church. In Ephesus the first church, it was a deeds, in the next church it become a doctrine. Can you hear it? Do you understand it now? It was a deed in Ephesus, and watch, over here in Pergamos it became a doctrine. It just started here in a little baby form. Now, in a minute we're going to find out what that was. Here is Paul's wolves: "deeds of the Nicolaitanes."


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