<TITLE>05. Par 28-32</TITLE>L-28 Now, tonight, we're beginning on the fifth church age, which is the church age of Sardis, S-a-r-d-i-s, Sardis. And the messenger to this church age, Martin Luther, becomes more familiar to the Bible scholar, or the teacher, or the laity, rather, today. And that church age begin in 1520 and ended in 1750, 1520 to 1750; and the age of what we call Reformation Age. And the complaint was using their own name. And the reward for the little remnant that was left, was to walk before Him in white raiment, and their names in the Lamb's Book of Life. May the Lord bless us as we undertake now.
Now, we begin on the 1st verse of the 3rd chapter, of this church age, the message to Sardis, the period of the reformation, a small believing remnant left, just almost out.

L-30 Now, to some of the newcomers, you might say on this here, that--so that you won't be behind in it... It's rather crude, and sometime we're going to come where we can place our messages out on the--draw it up, come in the afternoon and fix it up; may do it Sunday. Now, these each represent the--the church age: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. This beginning with Philadelphia...
And this up here represents the--the Pentecostal power, or a church that was on Pentecost. It was quite a large church at the beginning, but they started a--a--a denominational spirit coming among them, trying to denominate the church, which was called the deeds of the Nicolaitanes. Can you hear me way back? Yeah? All right. The deeds of the Nicolaitanes. Now, it wasn't a doctrine yet.
And then we took the Word and broke it down, what was "deeds," what was "Nicolaitane." That's a foreign name to us, "Nicolaitane," so I took the Greek and broke it down. And "Nico" means "to conquer, or to overcome, or overthrow something." Nicolaitane, "laitane" is the church, "laity." Nicolaitane, a--a deeds that was trying to overthrow the laity and put all the blessing... And the only one to read the Bible, the only one to give the interpretation would be the bishop or some great head person of the church.

L-32 Then we find out in the second church age it begin to squeeze way out. This is still Pentecost; and this is denominations: "d."
Now, in the third church age, Pergamos, Pentecost was almost squeezed out. But the doctrine of denomination, it become from a deeds here, all the way to a doctrine here. Then they was really getting mar--married right here. They married... The... This group here that had overpowered the Pentecostal groups...
Now, the way I'm saying that, brethren, that is the honest fact. That's according to the sacred writings of the histories. The books of the "Nicene Council," Foxe's "Book of the Martyrs," and all the great ancient writings. I've got some of the oldest manuscripts there is. And every one... I say this with not... Not saying that now, Pentecost. That don't mean... When I say Pentecost, that doesn't mean this organization the day we're living in. That's just as guilty as the rest of them. But I mean the real Pentecostal, the real Spirit of God with the original doctrine, with the original blessings, with the original names, with everything exactly the way it begin at the beginning like it went through the Bible.


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