<TITLE>14. Par 100-104</TITLE>L-100 And this church was called Smyrna because it was dying. "Smyrna" means "bitterness." In other words, a root of bitterness was coming up and was choking it out; it was on its road out to myrrh. That's what they anoint bodies with: myrrh. See? It was myrrh. Frankincense was an ointment. Myrrh is used to--to anoint dead bodies after they embalmed them and so forth. Associated with death, and the church was dying.
And, oh, can't you see today, friends, the great Pentecostal move that did have Life a few years ago, can't you see it's being anointed now with myrrh? See? The same ointment was in this church here has come plumb down and anointing this one down here; dying out because they're going back to ecclesiastical rags, and taking off their white robed saints. The little people who stood out there, and a genuine Holy Spirit, spoke with tongues, and manifested God. And, brother, they was as honest and all wool and a yard wide. They--they absolutely was genuine; you could trust them anywhere. Now, you don't know what to trust and who to trust. See? There's something's happened. Something's happened. What is it? They're being anointed with myrrh, of bitterness. Raising up one...

L-102 What had caused it? One come in; there was a--a church called, the first was a General Council. Then they called it the Assemblies of God. Out of the Assemblies of God come the Church of God. From the Church of God, then they begin to look across and say, "You're Assemblies." The other say, "You're Church of God." Then out of that come the United Pentecostal Church of God, on an issue. And then the first thing you know, instead of accepting Light and walking in it, why, they done organized themselves till they couldn't accept Light.
Now, when the--the baptism in the Name of Jesus Christ was brought forth instead of Father, Son, Holy Ghost to the Assemblies of God, they'd already anchored themselves so they couldn't change it. And they know it's the truth. I challenge any of them to show that it's not right by the Bible. It's absolutely the truth. But what can they do? They can't do it. See, they'd break up their creed; they can't.

L-104 Then what did the Oneness do? Instead of accepting it and going ahead, they got starchy. "Bless God forever. We got the Light, and you haven't. We're the..." What'd they do? They organized it. You can't organize God. God's even without form, the Bible said. No, nothing formal about God...
Now, and the Assemblies tried to organize Him and make them--their--theirs the--the--the real church. And then the Oneness come along, tried to organize theirs, and they had more Light. So what'd they do? They blowed it out by their own selfish, bitter way they went about it. Instead of giving it out with salt and sweetness, they tried to disfellowship the other one, have nothing to do with him. And that's what done it. It'd sweep on. Then the first thing you know, up come another one, they got this, and now they broke up. One said, "He's coming on a white horse." The other one said, "He's coming in a white cloud. Bless God, I'll start me an organization over here." See what the way they do? It spread myrrh--myrrh. What did it do? It shut off brotherhood.


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