<TITLE>22. Par 160-168</TITLE>L-160 And He don't want a man with great big sideburns hanging down like this, and like a duck setting on the back of his head like that. He wants him to look like a man. Yes, sir. My, they dress so feminish till hardly know what sex they belong to. It's--it's pitiful, these beatniks and everything we have today. No wonder we're living at the end time; there isn't nothing left in this world but for God to pour out His wrath upon it and burn her up. That's all. A just and holy God could do nothing else.
They spurned the Blood of Jesus Christ. They've dogmaticed themselves. They've got into an organization. And the old--some old holy father with his--old bachelor with his collar turned around, come up and tell them, "My blessed children." That means no more than a sow saying it.
I'm telling you, what we need today is a back to the Bible and the Holy Ghost, brother, and the power of the resurrected Christ come into the church working signs and wonders and miracles. Amen. That's the Gospel. Yes.

L-163 Brought forth... so... Yes, that's right, it did. The--the--the revival done some pretty good things there, that revival. But it didn't bring forth the Holy Ghost. They didn't bring that forth till down in this Laodicean age, down in Pentecostal age. But it did do one thing. This revival done some things that He said, "Don't let it die now, strengthen, keep adding to it." See?
It brought forth a free Bible to the people again. The Lutheran age brought forth a free Bible. They made their press and begin to give the world the Bible. God bless the Lutherans for that. Yes, sir. They put the Bible back in the laity's hand again; was just priest alone. Never even had to look at It; because it was what the pope said, and he was the god; so whatever he said, that did it.

L-165 So now, the Lutheran revival, what they wanted, to strengthen... Now, you got the Bible in your hand, now read It. Believe It. Don't lay It up on the shelf, say, "Well, we got a Bible." That ain't going to do you no good up there. There's too many Lutherans in Pentecost today, laying the Bible around and taking what somebody else says about It. Brother, read the Word. "Search the Scriptures, for they are they which testify of Me," said Jesus. "In Them you think you have Eternal Life." That's the thing to do: read the Word. Now, He said, "Hold to that, and don't--don't let that slip."

L-166 And another thing that He wanted them to hold onto, that had a little strength left in them, was... The Lutheran revival, the second thing it done, it brought the doctrine of justification to light. The Catholic don't take justification; it's the Catholic church.
Just like that priest, they had to put him off the air here sometime ago. He said, "There's no other salvation nowhere else but in the Catholic church." Salvation's in Christ, not in the Catholic church, not in the Protestant church. It's in Christ, salvation. But the Catholic believes... They don't care what the Bible says; it's what the church says. See? And you can't talk to them, because there ain't no way; they ain't no way to talk to them. They don't care. They got... They'll talk to you on their catechism, anything like that; when it comes to the Bible, they--they just discard That, "It's what the church says."...?...

L-168 Jesus said, in this very thing Jesus Himself said, "If any man shall take anything away or add anything to It, it'll take his part out of the Book of Life." Jesus said, "Let every man's word be a lie, and Mine be the truth. Heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word shall never pass away." Is that right? Oh, there It is, brother.
I'm a believer in God's Word. That's right. And not only that Word that God speaks there, then I ask the heavenly Father to give me the Holy Spirit to confirm that Word, to make Christ live in me. So I know I got Eternal Life, not because I deserve It, because His grace has give It to me. That's the rock. "Upon this rock I'll build My church," He said.


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