<TITLE>24. Par 225-229</TITLE>L-225 Now, remember, in the first of the church ages, as we close, He was walking among the seven golden candlesticks (Is that right?), the seven church ages. And at the end here, we find Him outside of what church? The Laodicean, the Laodicean church. Outside, they had excuse--excluded Him. Why, He was standing on the outside trying to get back in. What a pitiful picture, the Saviour of the world, standing outside of the church that He bought with His own Blood. Shame upon them.
"I stand at the door and knock." After being pushed out or ousted, then trying to get back in, crawls back and knocks at the door. This is the most striking record in the New Testament. I think there's nothing could be any more sadder than this, to see the Saviour of the world took out of His own church, the Laodicean age. After He done told them what they had did, their richness and everything, and what they were, and how they were lukewarm and so forth, and they--they had--they... He didn't have to spue them out; they'd spued Him out. And here, with all of that, still knocking at the door, trying to get back in. What for? To give them Eternal Life. The very ones that killed Him at Calvary, He was trying to save their souls. It's the most pathetic picture I ever seen in my life, ever thought of.

L-227 Excluded, what was He excluded from? Now, listen, friend. If this isn't striking. Get a picture of it; let it sink down in your heart. Our Saviour, when He was on earth, He was excluded from His own nation. He was rejected; He was excluded. The world excluded Him and crucified Him. And now, from His own church, He's excluded. He isn't wanted anywhere: had no need of Him. They'd got a denomination; they didn't need Him. They got a pope, what'd they need with Him any more? They got a archbishop, and general overseer, they had no use for the Holy Ghost any more. They didn't need That no more. Christ, the Holy Spirit, they didn't need Him. So their...
I don't believe they just up and throwed Him out, 'cause they hadn't missed Him. They hadn't missed Him, because they were still singing songs to Him; the preacher was still talking about Him, so they hadn't missed Him. But their own worldliness and their organization, organizing, saying, "The days of miracles is past and there's no such a thing as this and that."...

L-229 I ask you. Every revival that ever come, any of you historians... Now, down through here, these churches, every revival that ever come, the--it was always brought outside of an organization. Any man that ever started a revival was outside the organizations. And every time a--a revival started, they had signs and miracles of speaking in tongues and healings, and so forth like that, taking place. As soon as that founder died, then they organized it, and made an organization out of it, and went right dead, and God never fooled with it no more. That's exactly right.
And here He is at the last church age, standing outside the door, God Almighty. That--that breaks my heart to think of that, my Lord standing outside the door of His own church, after being pushed out by worldliness, and coldness, and denomination, and indifference, standing outside of the door, knocking, trying to get back in. When I thought that awhile ago, I just leaned over on my table, started crying. And I thought...


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