<TITLE>26. Par 224-229</TITLE>L-224 What did they do? Throwed it right back into Romanism again, baptized in the baptism of the Roman Catholic church. I ask any Pentecostal to show me where anybody in the Bible was baptized in the name of Father, Son, Holy Ghost. I ask any bishop, cardinal, any teacher, to show me where it was ever, ever done outside of the Catholic church. And Luther brought it with him; he brought catechism and everything else out of it. Methodists continued with it. Pentecostals, you ought to be ashamed. Clean up. Go back to the Word. Repent or God will take the candlestick away from you, the Light that you have got. Amen. All right.

L-225 Take the Holy Ghost out as a Leader and give them a holy order of men, and place them over the laity, and don't call them pastor, shepherds (We're supposed to be called pastors, "shepherds," the word "pastor" means.), but father, cardinal, archbishop, or general overseer. The true ones hated this thing. And God endorsed it for them and said, "I hate it too." Because He's supposed to be the general overseer, the archbishop, the pope. He works with each individual, not an organization, but a person.
Now, strangely... Listen, as we're coming to the close. We just got one more verse.

L-227 Here we have the dogma of Catholicism's beginning, apostolic succession. How many knows that? Apostolic... Now, the Catholic says that the pope today is a successor of Peter: apostolic succession. There's no such a thing. How is your carnal, sexual desire... How was it that Esau and Jacob was both borned of a holy father and a holy mother, and one of them a Christian and the other one a devil? See? How can it be? Because sin is sin, and sex is sex, but God gives the birth.
God chooses us from the foundation of the world. Did you know that? Wait till we get to reading these historians, and watch how Irenaeus, how he gives God praise for choosing him before the foundation of the world; how that Saint Martin, and all of those, giving Him praise, God, praise. Said, "Because..." And people speaking of him, saying, "He was chose before the foundation of the world." That's Scripture. Those brothers was lined up with God. But this old black church come through them fifteen hundred years of dark ages, smothered the whole thing like a lamp smoking, blinded the lights. "But it shall be Light in the evening time," the Lord said.

L-229 Apostolic succession, one after the other one; one pope, and it has to be in a lineage of popes before you can be a pope. Oh, my, my. That's nonsense. The--the laity... Not the holy and just, but the... Let the--let the priests pray for them and bring them out of their sins, forgiving their sins, paying money for a confession.
Protestants do the same. They try to be--pat their pastor on the back and live as the rest of the world. And he know no more about God than he does, lets them stay in his church and calls them members of his church, and letting them stay in there and professing to them that they are saved. How they'll be disappointed on that day if they're not born again. Without the Holy Ghost you're lost. No man can say, "Jesus is the Christ," only by the Holy Ghost.


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