<TITLE>12. Par 85-91</TITLE>L-85 Now, this church had begin to spring up a root of bitterness. Why? It was bitter against those who wanted to continue on with the Holy Ghost. The love had faded away, and they were trying to swap it to creeds and denominations, getting away from the Holy Ghost leadership. Think of that. That's why the--the--the bitterness was in them. All right.
Now, the first church, this--the bitterness started creeping in; the second church, a little more. And, finally, it creeped right in because they were making a better church; they thought they were. Right there they had something dignified, the great Roman people could come in. Why? They had a pope; they had--they had great men, cardinals, and so forth. They dressed fine. They got away from all the noise and everything they had: very quiet. Showed they was dying. Uh-huh, they were dying. And so they got dignified, and they made a better body. The first thing back there, they had the whole thing in a big ecclesiastical denomination, the Roman universal church, the Roman Catholic church in the dark age. Well, then, they had dignitaries; they had class.

L-87 Oh, it was much prettier than when they used to stand out on the street, and have to walk in sheepskin and goatskins, and destitute, and sawed asunder, and--and laughed at, and made fun of, and as Paul said in Hebrews the 11th chapter.
Why, this great, big, fine-robed church, with underskirts on, and--and all this other stuff that they are like that... Sure they looked dignified, "Father, Reverend, Doctor, Father So-and-so." Oh, my. They could put on some real dog there
But, you see, it was a hybrid thing: hybrid. See, it didn't have any Life in it. They cannot go back no more; that's the reason they never rise. The Lutheran revival never did rise up again. The Wesley revival never did rise up again. The Nazarene revival did not rise up again. Neither will the Pentecostal revival rise up again. Why? Because you killed it. You hybrid it with the world, with the Nicolaitane idea, not let the Holy Ghost have Its way. That's right. You hybrid the church, and you can't breed itself back again. When you breed back, you get more Methodists; Baptists breed back, get more Baptists; Catholic breed back, gets more Catholic; get the same thing you're shelling off the ear. But let me tell you something; when the Holy Ghost comes back, it brings new birth and new Life, a Person... Baptism of the Spirit brings the church back to itself again, puts Life back in it.
Hybrid corn don't have life in it. What life it is is just about sapped out. Now, we'll get that in that dark age there, "What little you have, hold onto it," He said. They'd about squeezed it out. Now, but it won't reproduce itself again. Now, does...

L-91 But the Body of Jesus Christ is not, is not an organization. The Body of Jesus Christ is a mystical Body; it is a Body of--and a Kingdom that's a spiritual Kingdom that's set upon the earth by Jesus Christ being the King of this Kingdom, the High Priest to offer sacrifices for the wayfaring in this Kingdom. He's the Prophet, the Word that preaches the Truth and brings the Light of God in this Kingdom; and He is both Prophet, Priest, and King in this Kingdom. And how do we get in this Kingdom? By the denomination? by letter? by handshaking? But by one Spirit we are all baptized into one Body which is the mystical Body of Jesus Christ, and we're baptized in there, not by water, not by sprinkling, not by pouring, not by any kind of water baptism, but by one Spirit, Holy Spirit, we are all baptized into one Body: I Corinthians 12. Yes, we are baptized into this Body by one Spirit, Holy Spirit; then we don't run to anything but Christ. You are Christ's. It's a mystical Kingdom of God that's set up, that we come into it by Holy Spirit baptism. I love that. Hm.


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