<TITLE>06. Par 50-60</TITLE>L-50 Now, tonight, He comes with a flaming fire. He's looking down into Laodicea--or down into Thyatira. This is the age that the church is married into Catholicism and paganism, or Nicolaitanism and paganism wedded together and formed and gave birth to the first church, organized church.
And God said that the deeds of the Nicolaitanes (which was in the Ephesians), over in the little church of Pergamos became a doctrine, and said it was a doctrine of Balaam. And Balaam was the one who taught Israel to go over there and commit fornications, or they committed fornications with Moab, which was a lukewarm church member, or the common church, the great organization. And we find out that God said that Nicolaitane doctrine which was the--take the--put all the power up in a church and set it aside and make it an organization, He said, "You hate it, and I hate it too." He just keeps saying, "Hate it. Hate it. Hate it." And it's come into full swing here. See how the church squeezed out, right up here till just a little bitty thing, and that's the church we're on now.

L-52 Now, in this day that this revelation came, or was to this church, it was a day that Rome had built upon the great stones of their place of hay and straw. But He's addressing this church that He still remains the flaming fires that looks down through the time, and His foundation is not hay, stubble, but it's a solid, tried brass in the fiery furnace. The foundation is sure. I love that. We know where we're standing,

L-53 All right.
I know thy works, and thy charity, and thy service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last--last to be more than the first.
All right, the church seems to have almost completely been cut off, just a little dwindle, and they'd got away from the great spiritual meetings, and were kind of relying upon works. God don't want us to rely upon works. That's a--a sign of organism. "We take Miss Jones over some wood. And we'll take So-and-so, their children, over some clothes." And that's all right. But don't you depend on that; don't you do that. Brother, that--that--that's a good deeds; a good, decent citizen will do that. But what it takes to be a Christian is a borned again experience, the baptism of the Holy Ghost. All right.
Dwindled off, they was resorted to works instead of love and faith, getting the more and more all the time as it went on.

L-57 All right.
I know your works,... I know your faith, I know your patience, and so forth...
But now, we're going to take the 20th verse; listen at this.
Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calls herself a prophetess, to teach and... subdue my servants and commit fornications, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
Now, woman... What did we find out woman represented last night? The church. Now, now we find out here they were called Nicolaitanes, doctrine of Balaam; and now it's become to a Jezebel.

L-60 Now, Jezebel... If you'll notice, this is a great history. Now, if you want to write it down, start in I Kings, about the--I Kings, about 16. Jezebel was not a daughter of Abraham; neither was this group over here, the pagan Rome. The Nicolaitanes was the cold, formal bunch of Christians that had separated themselves from the real Christians, seemingly not having the faith. And they wanted to make the church like a lodge, the same as they got today; like a lodge, no Spirit in it at all; "Days of miracles is past. All that was for another age. We got a brotherhood." A good Mason, Odd Fellow, or anything like that produces that. And that's all right, but that'll never take the place of a new birth in Jesus Christ, salvation to the soul, this truth.


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